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Obama signs historic Wall Street overhaul into law
Article
/ 22 July 2010

Obama signs historic Wall Street overhaul into law

President Barack Obama signed into law on Wednesday the most comprehensive financial regulatory overhaul since the Great Depression.

By Ross Colvin
Obama, Cameron navigate Lockerbie, BP rows
Article
/ 21 July 2010

Obama, Cameron navigate Lockerbie, BP rows

President Barack Obama and British PM David Cameron on Tuesday worked to patch up the "special relationship" between London and Washington.

By Stephen Collinson
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Article
/ 21 July 2010

Vampires get their teeth into US public

Vampires are in fashion across the US, encouraged by the hit TV series <i>True Blood</i>, the <i>Twilight</i> movies and <i>Vampire Diaries</i>.

By Paola Messana
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Article
/ 21 July 2010

US seeks ways to assist African forces in Somalia

The United States military is prepared to step up assistance to African Union forces in Somalia.

By Adam Entous
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Article
/ 20 July 2010

Goldman Sachs earnings tumble

Goldman Sachs Group said quarterly earnings tumbled 82%, coming in well short of expectations.

By Steve Eder
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Article
/ 20 July 2010

BP floats new bid to seal well with cement

BP crafted a new plan on Tuesday hoping to seal for good a blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 20 July 2010

Hewitt back in comfort zone as US Open looms

Lleyton Hewitt is back in his comfort zone at the ATP Atlanta Tennis Championships, with six weeks of hard court tennis to go before the US Open.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 19 July 2010

Mayweather silent on status of Pacquiao talks

A day after allowing a deadline for striking a deal on a Manny Pacquiao fight to pass, Floyd Mayweather indicated his stance wouldn’t change soon.

By Tim Reynolds
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Article
/ 19 July 2010

Do good genes hold the key to a long life?

A genetic test that can predict whether a person is likely to live long enough to see their 100th birthday has been developed by scientists.

By Ian Sample
Engineers detect seepage near BP oil well
Article
/ 19 July 2010

Engineers detect seepage near BP oil well

Engineers monitoring BP’s damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico detected seepage on the ocean floor that could mean problems with the cap.

By Chris Baltimore
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Article
/ 18 July 2010

Facebook’s breathless rise to power

Last month Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, announced that email was on the way out.

By James Harkin
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Article
/ 17 July 2010

Capped BP Gulf well under scrutiny

The cap on BP’s stricken Gulf of Mexico oil well appeared to hold on Friday, but officials have intensified monitoring.

By Kristen Hays and Ross Colvin
BP stops flow of oil into Gulf of Mexico
Article
/ 16 July 2010

BP stops flow of oil into Gulf of Mexico

Oil is no longer spewing into the Gulf of Mexico — at least temporarily — as BP said it choked off the flow from its undersea well.

By Kristen Hays
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Analysis
/ 15 July 2010

No getting away from Sarah Palin

Millions of Americans spent this week ignoring politics and concentrating on summer, but there was no getting away from Sarah Palin.

By Jonathan Mann
Iran nuclear scientist returns home from US
Article
/ 15 July 2010

Iran nuclear scientist returns home from US

An Iranian nuclear scientist who says he was abducted by CIA agents a year ago returned home from the United States early on Thursday.

By Parisa Hafezi and Ramin Mostafavi
Crucial test starts on cap at BP’s leaking oil well
Article
/ 15 July 2010

Crucial test starts on cap at BP’s leaking oil well

BP on Wednesday started a crucial test on its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico that it hopes will lead to halting the flow of crude oil.

By Kristen Hays
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Article
/ 14 July 2010

Henry moves to New York Red Bulls

France striker Thierry Henry has signed for New York Red Bulls, the Major League Soccer team said on Wednesday.

By Simon Evans
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Article
/ 14 July 2010

Signalling defeat

You can call Apple’s products many things. Overpriced, elitist, overhyped, restrictive — all of these have a ring of truth to them.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 14 July 2010

New cap test to stem Gulf oil flow delayed

BP on Tuesday delayed a critical test that will determine if it can close a cap atop its ruptured Macondo well.

By Kristen Hays
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Article
/ 13 July 2010

Missing Iran scientist turns up in Washington

A missing Iranian nuclear scientist, who Tehran says was kidnapped by the CIA, has turned up in Washington.

By Hossein Jaseb
BP puts cap in place as US issues new drilling ban
Article
/ 13 July 2010

BP puts cap in place as US issues new drilling ban

BP said on Monday it had installed and was ready to test a cap that, if successful, would for the first time stop the oil spewing from its well.

By Alexandria Sage
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Article
/ 13 July 2010

Sarah Palin’s war chest points to 2012 presidential bid

Republican, beloved by Tea Party activists but distrusted by party establishment, raises nearly $1-million in three months.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 12 July 2010

Facebook launches panic button for child safety

Facebook has agreed to adopt a panic button aimed at improving the online safety of its younger users, a child protection group said on Monday.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 11 July 2010

Apple: Better by design, does little for Western workers

Apple employs 25&nbsp;000 people in the US but the Chinese company that make its products has 800&nbsp;000 employees. Time to rethink the model?

By Staff Reporter
BP starts work to install new cap on gushing well
Article
/ 11 July 2010

BP starts work to install new cap on gushing well

BP removed a containment cap from its stricken Gulf of Mexico oil well on Saturday in the first step toward installing a bigger cap.

By Kristen Hays and Alexandria Sage
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Article
/ 10 July 2010

US will announce new drilling moratorium soon

The Obama administration promised on Friday it would announce a new deepwater oil drilling moratorium shortly.

By Jeff Mason and Dan Whitcomb
Nevada’s cult of the new-age cowboy
Article
/ 9 July 2010

Nevada’s cult of the new-age cowboy

They may look tough but every cowboy has a
romantic heart, as the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, shows. <b>Andrew Mueller</b> reports.

By Andrew Mueller
Texas’s toe-tappin’, walkin’ town
Article
/ 9 July 2010

Texas’s toe-tappin’, walkin’ town

Texas is big. And, if you visit Dallas and Houston, awfully bland, but for those ooking for a genuine Texan rose, I would suggest San Antonio.

By Garth Cartwright
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Article
/ 8 July 2010

The fear of the other

Arizona’s Republican governor Jan Brewer signed House Bill 2162 into law on April 23, the toughest US Act on illegal immigration to date.

By Christina Gossmann
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Analysis
/ 8 July 2010

Obama looks to spur job creation

President Barack Obama is thinking about jobs: looking for jobs for more than 14-million Americans and protecting the jobs of Washington lawmakers.

By Jonathan Mann
Prisoner swap mooted in Russia-US spy saga
Article
/ 8 July 2010

Prisoner swap mooted in Russia-US spy saga

The US has laid charges against alleged members of a Kremlin spy ring, as Russia and the US were said to be planning a Cold War-style prisoner swap.

By Paola Messana
Obama voices hope for direct Middle East talks soon
Article
/ 7 July 2010

Obama voices hope for direct Middle East talks soon

United States President Barack Obama urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to resume direct peace talks by September.

By Jeffrey Heller and Matt Spetalnick
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