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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.
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/ 9 November 2008
At 8 o’clock last Monday morning, the day before he was to become president elect, learned that the woman who had raised him was dead.
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/ 8 November 2008
Valerie Jarrett is a Chicago business woman who has been close to both Obamas since the couple began dating.
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/ 8 November 2008
General Motors and Ford reported far deeper-than-expected quarterly losses on Friday and said their rate of cash burn had accelerated
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/ 8 November 2008
”I wish you would make up your mind, Mr Dickens. Was it the best of times or was it the worst of times? It could scarcely have been both.”