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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.
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/ 26 December 2008
Eartha Kitt, the US singer and actress who died on Thursday at 81, mesmerised audiences worldwide for over six decades with her sultry voice.
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/ 26 December 2008
At least six people were killed after a man dressed as Santa Claus burst into a Christmas Eve party and opened fire before later killing himself.
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/ 25 December 2008
Barack Obama is riding the crest of the best approval ratings of any president-elect in decades, a new poll showed on Wednesday.
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/ 25 December 2008
When crime and violence crept into our lives, we decided to make a move, writes Philippa Garson.
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/ 24 December 2008
Heinous crimes are now synonymous with this United States administration. If it isn’t held to account, what does that say about us?
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/ 24 December 2008
A French investment manager who plowed €1,5-billion ($2,1-billion) into Bernard Madoff’s fraudulent scheme was found dead on Tuesday.
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/ 23 December 2008
A report, due out on Tuesday, is expected to clear US President-elect Barack Obama’s staff of any improper dealings with the governor of Illinois.
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/ 23 December 2008
Anyone tempted to feel sorry for the Republican candidates who lost in such spectacular style in the US presidential race can now relax.
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/ 22 December 2008
Barack Obama’s administration signalled on Sunday that it was preparing the biggest economic stimulus in US history to avert mass unemployment.
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/ 21 December 2008
When Bernard Madoff allegedly admitted that his investment company was a "big lie", few realised just how big.
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/ 21 December 2008
Barack Obama ushered in a revolution in the US response to global warming on Saturday when he appointed a leading climate-change expert to his team.
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/ 20 December 2008
United States car makers mulled painful reforms on Saturday after President George Bush unveiled a $13,4-billion rescue loan for the industry.
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/ 20 December 2008
The death of Mark Felt, better known as Deep Throat, added a postscript on Friday to an era of political skulduggery and journalistic endeavour.
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/ 20 December 2008
Bernard Madoff, who authorities say confessed to running a -billion fraud, was put under 24-hour detention in his Manhattan apartment on Friday.
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/ 20 December 2008
President-elect Barack Obama signalled a major shift in trade policy and labour relations on Friday as he rounded out a Cabinet of "rivals".
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/ 19 December 2008
Barack Obama was set to round out his Cabinet picks on Friday after moving with his promised ”deliberate haste” to get the faces in place.
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/ 19 December 2008
The United States government agreed on Friday to an emergency loan of $13,4-billion to ailing car makers.
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/ 19 December 2008
Mark Felt, the mysterious source who helped Washington Post reporters crack the Watergate scandal, has died at age 95.
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/ 19 December 2008
Mark Felt, the secret informant ”Deep Throat” in the Watergate scandal that led to the downfall of president Richard Nixon in 1974, has died.
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/ 19 December 2008
President-elect Barack Obama has blamed a lack of "adult supervision" for scandals such as Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50-billion fraud.
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/ 18 December 2008
Barack Obama’s White House team is to undergo a crash course in how to handle terrorist attacks and international crises.
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/ 18 December 2008
Disgraced Wall Street investment manager Bernard Madoff, accused of orchestrating a -billion fraud, was put under house arrest on Wednesday.
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/ 18 December 2008
Chrysler said on Wednesday that it would halt factory operations for at least a month, putting new pressure on the Bush administration.
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/ 17 December 2008
Little Adolf Hitler Campbell’s dad, denied a birthday cake with the child’s full name on it by a US supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance.
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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.