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/ 12 January 2009
Rags-to-riches tale Slumdog Millionaire hit the jackpot at the Golden Globes on Sunday, winning four of the coveted awards.
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/ 10 January 2009
The House of Representatives impeached Rod Blagojevich on Friday for abuse of power, including a charge that he tried to sell Barack Obama’s seat.
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/ 10 January 2009
Property markets on both sides of the Atlantic have plunged, but nowhere has the collapse been more spectacular than in Detroit.
The United States unemployment rate surged to its highest level in nearly 16 years in December.
Barack Obama’s economic team is working on an overhaul of the -billion programme, with the aim of doing more to spur the flow of credit to the US.
Worries about global economic growth and expectations of a weak US jobs report pushed oil prices lower on Friday.
Incoming administration will abandon Bush’s isolation of Islamist group to initiate low-level diplomacy, say transition sources.
The wall between televisions and computers is crumbling and internet pioneer Yahoo! is swinging a virtual hammer.
Thousands of people were evacuated on Wednesday across Washington as flooding caused by heavy rain and melting snow threatened to deluge the region.
President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday warned "Wall Street has not worked" and promised a "substantial overhaul" of the US financial markets.
President George Bush will talk briefly in private with Barack Obama on Wednesday before a White House lunch with all living former US presidents.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski wants to disqualify the entire Los Angeles County court system from handling his sexual misconduct case.
With the US economic outlook darkening, Barack Obama went to Congress two weeks before taking office to try to entice support for a stimulus package.
The cash-strapped New York Times on Monday for the first time opened its editorial holy of holies, the front page, to advertising.
World stock markets rose on Monday, with Tokyo hitting the highest level for almost two months.
Actor John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston said they were "heartbroken" over the death last week of their son Jett, 16.
Israel has yet to learn the US lesson, that the war on terror was a failure
Barack Obama stumbled in his quest for a smooth transition on Sunday when Bill Richardson withdrew his nomination for commerce secretary.
Chrysler on Friday received a -billion loan from the US government, two days after the government completed a parallel payout to General Motors.
Photographs of Abu Ghraib abuses shocked the world. Seven were charged, but the face of the scandal will always be Lynndie England.
Investors said good riddance on Wednesday to one of the worst years and prayed that rescue plans will pull the global economy out of its tailspin.
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/ 31 December 2008
Another day, another batch of warning signs indicating the world will enter 2009 in the throes of a sharp economic slowdown.
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/ 31 December 2008
Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich defied fellow Democrats by appointing a successor on Tuesday to fill Barack Obama’s vacant US Senate seat.
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/ 31 December 2008
In at least one obvious way, 2008 was a pretty good year in my country. We made history in electing an African-American president.
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/ 31 December 2008
Mark Felt, who has died at the age of 95, was appalled by the sleazy echoes of the pseudonym jokingly wished on him by Howard Simons.
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/ 30 December 2008
Freddie Hubbard, the jazz musician whose blazing virtuosity influenced generations of trumpet players, died on Monday. He was 70.
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/ 30 December 2008
Freddie Hubbard, the jazz musician whose blazing virtuosity influenced generations of trumpet players, died on Monday. He was 70.
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/ 29 December 2008
A racially tinged song entitled <i>Barack the Magic Negro</i> has become an issue in the battle for the leadership of the Republican party.
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/ 28 December 2008
It was the year the neo-liberal economic orthodoxy that ran the world for 30 years suffered a heart attack of epic proportions.
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/ 27 December 2008
As the US stock market heads into the last week of the year, what was inconceivable just 12 months ago is now a stark possibility.
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/ 27 December 2008
A man who dressed as Santa Claus to kill nine Christmas Eve party guests before taking his own life had been divorced just a week, officials said.
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/ 27 December 2008
Stars of Hollywood and bosses of high-tech giants like Google and Microsoft are opening their wallets to help fund Barack Obama’s inauguration party.