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/ 23 September 2009
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged the Group of 20, which meets from Thursday, to make a stand against protectionism.
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/ 23 September 2009
Moammar Gadaffi pitched his tent on an estate belonging to Donald Trump in suburban New York on Tuesday, according to reports.
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/ 22 September 2009
Leaders of about 100 nations met on Tuesday to breathe new life into deadlocked climate change negotiations.
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/ 22 September 2009
China and the US will seek to revive stalled negotiations on a new pact to combat global warming at a UN summit on Tuesday.
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/ 22 September 2009
All United States government facilities in South Africa were closed on Tuesday over an undisclosed security threat, a US embassy spokesperson said.
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/ 22 September 2009
For the next four weeks, the fear that any bank anywhere, no matter how big, could be at risk would stalk the markets.
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/ 22 September 2009
An American science student has captured images of the curvature of the Earth after sending a balloon into space on a shoestring budget.
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/ 21 September 2009
Israel and the Palestinians accused each other on Monday of thwarting United States efforts to revive peace negotiations.
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/ 21 September 2009
Barack Obama will host the first meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.
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/ 20 September 2009
Inside a hotel room in this New England port city, a superhero assumed his disguise before hitting the street.
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/ 20 September 2009
United States President Barack Obama will show Pittsburgh to world leaders this week as a ”bold example” of a new green economy.
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/ 20 September 2009
By calling Barack Obama a liar on the floor of Congress, Joe Wilson highlighted a resentment among some that a black man could become president.
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/ 19 September 2009
Seven former heads of the CIA urged President Barack Obama on Friday to end the probe into allegations of abuse of prisoners.
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/ 19 September 2009
The US Justice Department urged a New York court on Friday to reject Google’s controversial deal with authors and publishers.
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/ 18 September 2009
Barack Obama has abandoned a controversial plan to build a missile-defence system in Europe in a break with the policies of the Bush administration.
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/ 17 September 2009
Representatives of the world’s 17 biggest carbon polluters meet on Thursday to kick off a week of high-level and high-stakes talks on climate change.
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/ 17 September 2009
The United States plans to shelve plans for a missile-defence system based in Poland and the Czech Republic, it was reported on Thursday.
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/ 17 September 2009
A US grandmother, blind for a decade, has recovered her sight after surgeons implanted a tooth in her eye as a base to hold a tiny plastic lens.
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/ 17 September 2009
Teverse transparency can kick in for information-poor African countries via information that is held by foreign governments, donors and others.
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/ 17 September 2009
US President Barack Obama is arriving at a crossroads in his bold bid to revive Arab-Israeli peace talks.
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/ 16 September 2009
The recession in the United States "is very likely over" but its economy remains weak, Federal Reserve chairperson Ben Bernanke says.
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/ 16 September 2009
Nasa’s given up. But there is no shortage of scientists eager to take the next giant leap: a no-return mission to Mars.
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/ 15 September 2009
Muntazer al-Zaidi, the reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at former US president George Bush, is expected to become a free man on Tuesday.
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/ 15 September 2009
Losing his US Open title and 41-match winning streak was a huge blow, but Roger Federer says he will spend no time in brooding over it.
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/ 15 September 2009
United States President Barack Obama bluntly warned on Monday that some Wall Street bosses were ignoring lessons of the financial crisis.
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/ 15 September 2009
Patrick Swayze, whose turn as a dance instructor in Dirty Dancing made him one of the iconic film stars of the 1980s, died on Monday.
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/ 14 September 2009
Osama bin Laden warned the American people over their government’s close ties with Israel in an audio tape posted on an Islamist website on Monday.
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/ 14 September 2009
Kim Clijsters crowned her remarkable comeback by beating 19-year-old Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday.
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/ 14 September 2009
All the talking about climate change have resulted in a net achievement of less than nothing: global emissions just keep going up.
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/ 13 September 2009
A reward of -million is being offered this weekend for information leading to the recovery of a unique collection of stolen Andy Warhol portraits.
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/ 13 September 2009
Kim Clijsters reached the US Open final after beating an enraged Serena Williams 6-4, 7-5 on Saturday in a contest that disintegrated into chaos.
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/ 13 September 2009
Forty years ago, the first two computers on the Arpanet, the military network that was the precursor to the internet, exchanged login information.