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/ 20 November 2008
Want to feel at home in NYC? A new supper club invites you to join Brooklyn hipsters for a dinner party. Isabel Choat reports.
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/ 20 November 2008
It’s just 140km from New York, but Philadephia is finally stepping out of the Big Apple’s shadow — and its baseball team is better too.
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/ 20 November 2008
The crowds Obama drew gave a glimpse of how Americans can come together for change.
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/ 20 November 2008
If a team of United States researchers has its way, we may all be talking about CarTorrent in the not too distant future.
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/ 20 November 2008
New York’s multicultural street food is unrivalled
— and the most successful vendors take their
wares and set up shop.
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/ 19 November 2008
United States automakers renewed pleas on Wednesday for a government bailout to avert a "catastrophic collapse" of the economy.
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/ 19 November 2008
Japan’s number three bank sought to beef up its capital on Wednesday, markets fretted over the stricken United States car industry.
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/ 19 November 2008
Barack Obama said on Tuesday the US would engage vigorously in climate-change talks when he is president, and he pledged to work to reduce emissions.
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/ 18 November 2008
US president-elect Barack Obama and vanquished rival John McCain met on Monday for the first time since the November 4 election.
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/ 18 November 2008
Yahoo! has said Jerry Yang will step down as chief executive as soon as the board finds a replacement.
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/ 18 November 2008
US Senate Democrats took the first step towards bailing out the nation’s crippled auto industry on Monday by proposing a -billion loan programme.
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/ 17 November 2008
US president-elect Barack Obama has vowed to pull troops out of Iraq as part of a foreign policy break with George Bush.
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/ 17 November 2008
Of all the charges hurled at liberalism in America since the 1970s, few have proven as potent as the allegation of ”liberal hypocrisy”.
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/ 17 November 2008
Wildfires hop-scotched around Southern California on Sunday although calmer winds slowed flames that have destroyed almost 1 000 houses.
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/ 16 November 2008
The election of the first black president in US history should send a powerful signal to young black Americans: If Barack Obama made it, so can you.
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/ 16 November 2008
As the man and woman walked slowly towards the war memorial in Chicago last week, the figure of Barack Obama was instantly recognisable.
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/ 16 November 2008
It was a fireside chat for a wi-fi world. Barack Obama on Saturday launched his first regular weekly update to the American voters by YouTube.
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/ 16 November 2008
World leaders pledged rapid action on Saturday to rescue a weakening global economy from the worst financial crisis in over 70 years
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/ 16 November 2008
Fires whipped up by hot, gusty and erratic winds darkened Los Angeles skies on Saturday, scorching thousands of hectares and hundreds of homes.
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/ 16 November 2008
President elect Barack Obama has only 100 days to save the US auto industry, write David Gow and Mark Milner.
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/ 15 November 2008
The US space shuttle Endeavour soared off its seaside launch pad on Friday on a mission to upgrade the International Space Station.
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/ 15 November 2008
World leaders grappling with a global financial crisis pledged on Friday to deliver an action plan to ward off recession and prevent future meltdowns.
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/ 14 November 2008
Senator Hillary Clinton emerged on Thursday as a candidate to be US secretary of state for Barack Obama, months after he defeated her.
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/ 13 November 2008
Barack Obama sent a strong signal on Wednesday that he plans a decisive break with George Bush on environmental policy.
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/ 12 November 2008
The US denounced Iran’s claimed test of a new medium-range missile on Wednesday and warned Tehran to halt its missile programme "immediately".
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/ 11 November 2008
United States president-elect Barack Obama visited the White House on Monday for his first post-election meeting with President George Bush.
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/ 10 November 2008
An elderly woman has been living with two skeletons and a badly decomposed body of her siblings in a suburb of Chicago, authorities said.
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/ 10 November 2008
When George Bush acts as host to Barack and Michelle Obama on a visit to the White House on Monday, it will be an increasingly rare event.
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/ 10 November 2008
Monetary policy is being eased everywhere, with the expectation that the Fed will join Japan in having a policy rate below 1% by the end of the year.
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/ 10 November 2008
Sarah Palin’s supporters want her to run for president, but to millions of others she is an embarrassing joke.
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/ 10 November 2008
The acceptance speech of Barack Obama, president elect of the United States, in Chicago, the day after he won the election.
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/ 10 November 2008
When Bush and Obama meet at the White House on Monday for the ”psychological transfer” between them, the moment has potential for awkwardness.