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/ 25 September 2008
When Wall Street crashed in 1929, retiree Helen Haas remembers lining up with her mother at a Chicago bank to withdraw her in savings.
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/ 25 September 2008
Magician David Blaine completed his 60-hour upside-down ordeal in New York on Wednesday, but some complained about the illusionist stunt.
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/ 25 September 2008
Just 40 days from the US general election, the financial crisis has transformed the White House race into a daring duel of political brinkmanship.
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/ 24 September 2008
A grainy YouTube video surfaced on Wednesday showing Sarah Palin being blessed in her hometown church three years ago by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for her protection from ”witchcraft”
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/ 24 September 2008
The FBI has confirmed it is probing allegations of fraud by 24 Wall Street firms, without naming investment giants believed to be under investigation.
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/ 24 September 2008
The idea is to boldly go where no man has gone before. But for space tourist Richard Garriott, this will take on a new dimension next month.
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/ 24 September 2008
United States President George Bush stood unrepentant and unbowed before the 192 member states of the UN general assembly on Tuesday.
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/ 24 September 2008
World stocks steadied on Wednesday and safe-haven government bonds rose after Warren Buffett’s investment in Goldman Sachs failed to calm anxiety.
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/ 24 September 2008
Democrat Barack Obama has opened a nine-point lead over Republican John McCain in the US presidential race amid turmoil in the financial system.
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/ 23 September 2008
The architects of a -billion bailout for the United States financial system urged lawmakers on Tuesday to move quickly.
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/ 23 September 2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a US newspaper the Wall Street crisis stemmed partly from American military interventions.
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/ 23 September 2008
Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said on Monday the US will overcome the financial crisis that has sent shockwaves through Wall Street.
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/ 23 September 2008
The Republicans argue that people who have lost their homes may no longer be resident at the address listed on voter records.
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/ 23 September 2008
If this is the death of Wall Street as we know it, the tombstone will read: killed by complexity.
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/ 22 September 2008
Magician and showman David Blaine strung himself upside down above an ice-skating rink on Monday and plans to stay there for 60 hours.
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/ 22 September 2008
Oil prices rose on Monday as investors grappled with the possible effects on crude demand of a -billion US proposal to buy bad mortgage debt.
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/ 22 September 2008
US negotiators are making ”good headway” on legislation to provide an unprecedented -billion bailout of financial markets.
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/ 22 September 2008
Period drama <i>Mad Men</i> scooped the top honour at the 60th Emmy Awards on Sunday as politics took centre stage.
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/ 22 September 2008
Heads of state, private-sector leaders and development agencies will this week assess the global fight against poverty.
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/ 22 September 2008
Boo Weekley, true to his gregarious nature, galloped up and down the first fairway astride his driver to help fire up the crowd on the final day.
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/ 22 September 2008
Historically, there’s been a last-minute swing away from black candidates by white voters. Will Barack change things?
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/ 21 September 2008
The United States go into Sunday’s Ryder Cup singles with a two-point lead after battling Europe to a dramatic draw.
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/ 21 September 2008
Phil Mickelson’s Ryder Cup roller-coaster dipped to another low on Saturday as the world number two had two points slip through his fingers.
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/ 21 September 2008
The Bush administration asked Congress on Saturday for -billion to bail out firms burdened with bad mortgage debt.
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/ 21 September 2008
A national study in the United States has concluded that computer games foster social interaction and civic engagement.
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/ 21 September 2008
Despite being a pro-choice, liberal atheist, I gave money in honour of the US vice-residential candidate Sarah Palin today.
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/ 20 September 2008
There’s something about hundreds of billions of dollars vanishing overnight that begs a comparison to the 1929 market crash and the Great Depression.
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/ 20 September 2008
A US bankruptcy judge has approved a revised version of British bank Barclays’s deal to purchase the core US business of Lehman Brothers.
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/ 20 September 2008
Paul Azinger’s tactics of playing all 12 of his men on the opening day of the Ryder Cup paid handsome dividends on Friday as the US grabbed the lead.
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/ 20 September 2008
The United States surged into action on Friday to launch an all-out attack against the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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/ 19 September 2008
An electric commuter train slammed into a bus near downtown Los Angeles on Friday morning, injuring at least 13 people, fire officials said.
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/ 19 September 2008
A window installer plucked from a scaffold as it teetered high above a Manhattan street says he called his mother while he was waiting to be rescued.