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/ 3 December 2008
Former US president Bill Clinton on Wednesday praised the team president-elect Barack Obama has assembled.
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/ 3 December 2008
Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski asked a Los Angeles court on Tuesday to dismiss a 30-year-old charge of unlawful sex with a minor.
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/ 2 December 2008
Barack Obama rode a wave of anti-war sentiment to the White House but he vowed on Monday to maintain ”the strongest military on the planet”.
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/ 2 December 2008
Fancy sports shoes were declared off limits at New York prisons from Monday as authorities sought to reduce friction between inmates.
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/ 2 December 2008
George Bush has admitted that the decision to go to war against Iraq on the basis of flawed intelligence was the biggest regret of his presidency.
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/ 1 December 2008
President-elect Barack Obama on Monday nominated former rival Hillary Clinton to be the next United States secretary of state.
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/ 1 December 2008
Hillary Clinton may have fallen short in her quest to become president, but as secretary of state she will have a unique opportunity.
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/ 1 December 2008
The histrionics of Obamamania have permitted no scrutiny of liberal democracy’s shift towards a corporate dictatorship.
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/ 29 November 2008
A man working for Wal-Mart was killed on Friday in a stampede by frenzied shoppers who broke down doors and surged into a Long Island store.
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/ 29 November 2008
As the preferred winter retreat of the Rat Pack, the Fontainebleau Hotel put Miami on the map as the capital of cool.
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/ 27 November 2008
US President George W Bush has pardoned his last Thanksgiving turkey,which will now fly first-class to Disneyland in California.
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/ 27 November 2008
The US consumer freeze deepened on Wednesday as a fall in spending gave the Thanksgiving shopping season its worst possible start.
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/ 27 November 2008
The bosses of the United States’ big three carmakers appeared before Congress last week to plead the case for a $25-billion government aid package.
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/ 26 November 2008
US president-elect Barack Obama has named Paul Volcker as chair of a new panel that will advise him on stabilising financial markets.
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/ 26 November 2008
US president-elect Barack Obama will press his aggressive plans to deal with his nation’s woes on Wednesday.
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/ 26 November 2008
Astronauts at the International Space Station have fixed a faulty urine-processor unit at the International Space Station, Nasa said onTuesday.
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/ 26 November 2008
LA is burning when I arrive. The fires around the city are a reminder of the fragility of life, even here in the midst of the West Coast metropolis.
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/ 26 November 2008
There’s SlowSex (apparently; first I’d heard of it), SlowCities, and SlowFood. Now, the New York Times reports, there is also Slow Blogging.
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/ 26 November 2008
An award-winning rapper and a Detroit policeman facing cocaine and money laundering charges are among the first to have won a pardon.
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/ 25 November 2008
Barack Obama on Monday promised an extraordinary multibillion-dollar economic package to deliver a jolt to the United States.
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/ 25 November 2008
Touted as the next US secretary of state, the former first lady carries tremendous political baggage.
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/ 24 November 2008
A report has called for rich nations to make the first cuts in greenhouse gases while developing countries carry on as usual for the time being.
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/ 24 November 2008
The US government agreed to prop up Citigroup with more than -billion, the latest bailout in a sector crippled by exposure to toxic debts.
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/ 24 November 2008
In a bar in Zanzibar I saw two sex workers chatting up a couple of Germans. The men were in their 50s and balding — the women were young and pretty.
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/ 23 November 2008
US President-elect Barack Obama said on Saturday he was crafting a two-year plan to fight an economic crisis of ”historic proportions.
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/ 23 November 2008
US president-elect Barack Obama has chosen seasoned policymakers Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers as his two top economic lieutenants.
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/ 23 November 2008
Water, Water, everywhere; nor any drop to drink. The plight of the Ancient Mariner is about to be alleviated thanks to a firm from Canada.
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/ 22 November 2008
United States president-elect Barack Obama said on Saturday that he was crafting an aggressive, two-year stimulus plan to revive the troubled economy.
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/ 22 November 2008
The Pentagon is considering a plan to send 20 000 troops to Afghanistan over the next 12 to 18 months to quell rising Taliban violence.
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/ 22 November 2008
Wall Street enters the year-end holiday season this week with little to cheer about as the worst bear market in decades appears to be grinding on.
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/ 20 November 2008
United States president-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday selected Tom Daschle, a heavyweight former senator, to be his health secretary.
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/ 20 November 2008
Chances have dimmed that a last-minute plan being crafted to provide -billion to bail out US automakers would receive enough backing.