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/ 25 October 2008
A draft US Army report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter and Global Positioning System maps and as potential terrorist tools.
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/ 24 October 2008
Over the past few days, a music video entitled Red, White and Milf has appeared. It features a cowboy singing a song about Sarah Palin.
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/ 23 October 2008
A close-quarters struggle is evolving between Barack Obama’s vengeance-seeking Democrats and Republican John McCain’s crack ground troops.
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/ 22 October 2008
Long before she filed for bankruptcy, Ann Neukomm was ”underwater” — she owed more on her mortgage than her house was worth.
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/ 22 October 2008
Wal-Mart Stores, the world’s largest retailer, says it will crack down on its Chinese suppliers by enforcing stricter quality standards.
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/ 22 October 2008
Tina Fey says she glues her ears down for her impressions of Sarah Palin, but it took her a while to accept she was almost a perfect double.
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/ 22 October 2008
Top-ranked Tiger Woods is very confident he will play next year’s Masters but still has no timetable for his return after left knee surgery.
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/ 21 October 2008
<i>MAD</i> magazine is putting a last batch of original drawings of Alfred E Neuman and other early works up for auction.
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/ 21 October 2008
The financial crisis is a double whammy for police in many US cities: they face budget cuts as they brace for an expected surge in crime.
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/ 21 October 2008
Hillary Clinton campaigned for Barack Obama on Monday, turning the populist fervour that enflamed their White House duel on to Republican John McCain.
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/ 20 October 2008
Richard Blackwell, the former actor-model who became the scourge of the fashion world with his annual list of ”worst dressed” celebrities, has died.
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/ 20 October 2008
Richard Blackwell, the former actor-model who became the scourge of the fashion world with his annual list of ”worst dressed” celebrities, has died.
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/ 20 October 2008
In May the US state department told seven Fulbright scholars from Gaza their scholarships were cancelled.
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/ 20 October 2008
Republicans have race-baited in one form or other in most of our presidential contests since Richard Nixon’s time.
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/ 19 October 2008
John McCain compared Barack Obama to socialist leaders in Europe on Saturday, saying his rival wants to raise taxes on the wealthy.
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/ 19 October 2008
Every so often, a famous actor or producer will contact Seymour Hersh, wanting to make a movie about his uncovering of the My Lai massacre.
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/ 19 October 2008
US President George Bush announced on Saturday he would host the first in a proposed series of global summits on the financial crisis.
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/ 19 October 2008
Move your hands atop the worn table in the darkened room and it responds with jumbled sounds: a man and woman talking; knives being sharpened.
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/ 19 October 2008
An elder statesman of the Republican Party cast doubt on the legitimacy of the presidential election this week.
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/ 18 October 2008
Spending on the Medicaid health programme for the poor is on a path to grow at a much higher rate than the overall US economy in the next 10 years.
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/ 18 October 2008
EBay said on Friday it had borrowed -billion under its revolving credit facility, with funds going toward its acquisition of Bill Me Later.
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/ 18 October 2008
Sam, the hotel waiter, wasn’t at breakfast on Friday morning. For the three weeks I have been in Roanoke we have talked politics over the buffet.
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/ 18 October 2008
The United States Congress has approved -million for an independent study of possible space-based missile defences.
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/ 18 October 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was to press George Bush on Saturday on the need for an overhaul of the international financial system.
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/ 18 October 2008
Despite strong words, the final debate is unlikely to be the game-changer McCain had hoped for.
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/ 17 October 2008
An elephant expert whose house on the US Gulf Coast was destroyed by Hurricane Ike is putting his collection back together — one tooth at a time.
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/ 17 October 2008
Oliver Burkeman speaks to Oliver Stone about his new movie, W about US president George W Bush.
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/ 17 October 2008
Is there room among the pratfalls and bedroom tirades of YouTube for an experimental, full-length film?
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/ 17 October 2008
It came so close to being remembered as the hockey mom election. But, doggone it, hockey moms will just have to wait another four years.
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/ 17 October 2008
The presidency is not won or lost by televised knockabout, but Obama has taken the opportunity to confirm his credentials.
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/ 16 October 2008
Two giant diamonds sold for more than -million at auction on Wednesday to a Middle Eastern buyer, bucking a wave of gloom.
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/ 16 October 2008
John McCain went for the jugular in his final debate with Barack Obama on Wednesday as he sought to revive his flagging White House hopes.