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/ 17 December 2008
With the US economy slumping, the going has got very tough, but the tough are no longer shopping. They’re laughing.
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/ 17 December 2008
Still can’t think what to get him for Christmas? Socks don’t seem to cut it any more? Fret no longer because Burger King is here to help.
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/ 17 December 2008
Three years after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is mounting the United States’s biggest biennial of modern art. Teri Grenert reports.
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/ 16 December 2008
Journalists and photographers at the Associated Press are withholding their bylines to protest management’s stance in contract talks.
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/ 16 December 2008
The Fed appeared set to cut interest rates to within sight of zero on Tuesday and Japan was weighing steps to ease funding.
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/ 16 December 2008
Venezuela’s anti-US President Hugo Chávez said on Monday that an Iraqi reporter who flung his shoes at US President George Bush was courageous.
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/ 16 December 2008
Insisting on a need to develop new forms of energy, US president-elect Barack Obama on Monday chose as his energy secretary a Nobel physics laureate.
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/ 16 December 2008
US authorities said on Monday they were liquidating Bernard Madoff Investment Securities LLC of New York, following Madoff’s arrest for alleged fraud.
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/ 15 December 2008
The White House campaign of Barack Obama has ensured that things will never be the same again, according to no less of an authority than Joe Trippi.
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/ 15 December 2008
No more them and us, with a farewell to American supremacy — China is to be biggest beneficiary of change.
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/ 14 December 2008
Circulation is dropping and readers are going online to get news for free, leaving the US newspaper industry awash in red ink.
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/ 14 December 2008
By the time United States President George Bush he vacates the White House, he will have issued a record number of so-called ”midnight regulations”.
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/ 13 December 2008
Movies are being released hard and fast this festive season, writes Dan Glaister.
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/ 12 December 2008
Imagine running the largest credit card network, and not having your own plastic — that’s what happened to Visa chief executive Joseph Saunders.
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/ 11 December 2008
Obama has called on the Democratic governor of Illinois to resign after he was charged with trying to sell Obama’s US Senate seat.
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/ 11 December 2008
The House of Representatives has approved a lifeline to the teetering US auto industry, but the legislation now faces stiff opposition in the Senate.
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/ 10 December 2008
The White House and congressional Democrats on Tuesday night reached an agreement in principle on a -billion proposal for bailing out US carmakers.
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/ 10 December 2008
The governor of Illinois was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to sell an appointment to Barack Obama’s recently vacated US Senate seat.
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/ 9 December 2008
Young professionals have struggled to find work in a sliding economy, but one area — Silicon Valley — has been relatively immune. Until now.
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/ 9 December 2008
MySpace is teaming up with internet search leader Google to extend MySpace’s reach and counter the expansion of their common rival, Facebook.
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/ 9 December 2008
The White House voiced concern about a Democratic plan on Monday to bail out stricken automakers with up to -billion in loans.
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/ 9 December 2008
The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four others on Monday told a military judge that they wanted to plead guilty and enter a confession.
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/ 8 December 2008
Barack Obama chose a general sacked by the Bush administration for doubting its Iraq war strategy for his Cabinet on Sunday.
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/ 8 December 2008
The economic news last week was remorselessly grim from every corner of the globe.
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/ 8 December 2008
Global stock markets rebounded sharply on Monday on hopes of fresh government action to fight a deepening recession, dealers said.
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/ 8 December 2008
Even Picassos seem to be less than recession-proof these days as the art world succumbs to the global economic downturn.
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/ 7 December 2008
The combination of recession and efforts to jump-start economies can be a headache. In recessions, vices like tobacco and alcohol win ground.
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/ 7 December 2008
The year did not begin well for Britney Spears, the one-time princess of pop. On 3 January, the police were called to her Malibu home.
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/ 7 December 2008
The $326-billion rescue of Citigroup was, some investors hoped, a turning point.
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/ 6 December 2008
Congressional Democrats and the White House have reached agreement on emergency aid for United States automakers.
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/ 6 December 2008
As their eight years at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue come to a close, George and Laura Bush have revealed their plans to move on.
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/ 6 December 2008
OJ Simpson was sentenced to up to 33 years in prison on Friday for kidnapping and robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room.