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/ 23 January 2010
A judge on Friday said fugitive film director Roman Polanski must return to the United States to be sentenced for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
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/ 23 January 2010
One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people.
It’s one year since the US president’s historic election. Has he become trapped in his own lofty rhetoric?
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/ 22 January 2010
US General David Petraeus said on Thursday it was "disturbing" that a manufacturer had embossed biblical citations on rifle scopes sent to Iraq.
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/ 22 January 2010
President Barack Obama has unveiled plans to limit the size and scope of US banks and financial firms in a new offensive against Wall Street excesses.
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/ 22 January 2010
The Sundance Film Festival opened on Thursday proclaiming a return to rebellious filmmaking by premiering the Allen Ginsberg biopic <em>HOWL</em>.
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/ 21 January 2010
America’s most popular newspaper website on Wednesday announced that its era of free online journalism is drawing to a close.
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/ 21 January 2010
US President Barack Obama will propose stricter limits on financial risk-taking on Thursday in a move that may recall Depression-era curbs on banks.
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/ 21 January 2010
President Barack Obama has admitted he neglected his direct connection to the American people, after a stunning Republican election win.
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/ 20 January 2010
Al-Qaeda is seeking to destabilise South Asia and could trigger a war between Pakistan and India, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday.
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/ 20 January 2010
Republican Scott Brown won a bitter US Senate race in Massachusetts on Tuesday, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama’s legislative agenda.
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/ 20 January 2010
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has just joined Twitter with a verified account, having been preceded by numerous fakes.
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/ 19 January 2010
Iran said on Tuesday that Western warships stationed in the Gulf are "best targets" for the Islamic republic if its nuclear sites are attacked.
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/ 18 January 2010
<em>Avatar</em> was named best film drama and <em>The Hangover</em> claimed the top comedy trophy at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday.
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/ 16 January 2010
President Barack Obama on Saturday slammed Wall Street’s "audacity" for fighting a bail-out fee he wants to slap on financial firms.
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/ 16 January 2010
Big carmakers at the Detroit Motor Show had electrically powered and hybrid cars on display, but Americans still aren’t buying green vehicles.
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/ 15 January 2010
China said on Friday that Google’s threat to pull out of the country over censorship would not affect Beijing’s economic ties with the US.
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/ 14 January 2010
President Barack Obama will on Thursday unveil a fee on 50 top financial firms to recoup billions of taxpayer dollars used to bail out the industry.
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/ 14 January 2010
Teddy Pendergrass, the seductive American R&B singer, has died at the age of 59, media reports said on Thursday.
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/ 13 January 2010
Parliament speaker Ali Larijani, Iran’s former chief nuclear negotiator, accused United States President Barack Obama of state terrorism on Wednesday.
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/ 12 January 2010
Iran on Tuesday accused the US and Israel and their "mercenaries" of carrying out a bomb attack that killed a nuclear scientist, state media reported.
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/ 12 January 2010
Two gay men and two lesbians challenging a ban on marriage said their relationships had lasted for years but they felt like third-class citizens.
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/ 11 January 2010
He spent a year trying to do things co-operatively. Now he must take more charge and not let Congress call the shots.
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/ 11 January 2010
In a filmmaking career spanning almost 40 years, Oliver Stone has turned political controversy in America into an art form.
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/ 10 January 2010
With the paparazzi on the prowl, the disgraced golf star has vanished. But America still waits for an act of penitence.
His expression flat, the 23-year-old Nigerian accused of trying to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day hobbled into a Detroit courtroom on Friday.
In an event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company announced plans to start beaming 3D gigs directly into living rooms.
Blasts of Arctic winds and drifting snow gripped much of the northern United States and Canada on Thursday and heavy snows fell in Europe.
Astronomers say they are on the verge of finding planets like Earth orbiting other stars, a key step in determining if we are alone in the universe.
A US government report on Friday is expected to show the economy stopped shedding jobs last month for the first time since it fell into recession.
Microsoft plans to get its Natal body-gesturing gaming system into stores in time for this year’s holiday shopping season.
US President Barack Obama is "not patient" and is demanding immediate changes in airline security, the top US military officer said on Wednesday.