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US President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan runs into opposition from within his own party. |
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Leonidas Vargas, a once powerful Colombian drug trafficker, is shot dead in his hospital bed in the Spanish capital Madrid. |
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A trio of Canadians claim a new record for the fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole. |
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A strong earthquake that struck Costa Rica on Thursday killed at least two people, officials say. |
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State legislators in Illinois pave the way for a vote to impeach Governor Rod Blagojevich, accused of corruption. |
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"Chuckie" Taylor, son of Liberian ex-leader Charles Taylor, is to be sentenced by a US court after being convicted of torture. |
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US President-elect Barack Obama says that a huge stimulus package is urgently needed to revive the US economy. |
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Slumdog Millionaire dominates the Critics' Choice Awards, winning five prizes at the ceremony in California. |
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Bernard Madoff had $173m in cheques in his office desk, ready to send out at the time of his arrest, US prosecutors say. |
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US President-elect Barack Obama is to appear on the cover of a special edition of Spider-Man. |
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A US man divorcing his wife demands that she return the kidney he donated to her or pay him $1.5m (£1m) in compensation. |
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Matt Frei, presenter of BBC World News America, examines the continuing growth of political dynasties in America. |
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French motorcyclist Pascal Terry is found dead three days after going missing during the Dakar Rally, being held in South America. |
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Philadelphia pitcher JC Romero is suspended for 50 games after testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance. |
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US bank Citigroup backs a proposed change in US bankruptcy law to help borrowers avoid losing their homes. |
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Handheld computing firm Palm unveils a smartphone called Pre at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. |
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A private memorial service is held in Florida for Hollywood actor John Travolta's son Jett, dead at 16 from a seizure. |
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The leaders of two breakaway fundamentalist Mormon sects in an isolated Canadian community are charged with polygamy. |
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Colombian coffee growers plan to sue a US cartoonist for a cartoon they say links their main advertising figure with violence. |
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Venezuela's US-based oil firm Citgo reverses Monday's decision to scrap a scheme providing heating oil to poor US families. |
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The US financial watchdog reopens an insider trading inquiry into Microsoft shares three years on, reports say. |
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US President-elect Barack Obama says that a huge stimulus package is urgently needed to revive the US economy. |
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Bratz dolls are to be allowed to remain on sale during 2009 after a judge gives a reprieve to their manufacturer. |
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How FBI technology is driving a medical advance |
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How Cuba's exiles became part of the American mix |
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How US policy on Cuba could shift under Obama |
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Revolution at 50: How young Cubans see the future |
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The BBC's Michael Voss looks at how Cuba has managed to keep its economy ticking over in the 50 years since the revolution. |
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The BBC News website examines the scandals surrounding Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. |
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Will George Bush be rated one of the worst presidents? |
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A guide to the famous record label as its turns 50 |
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Why it's hard to predict sudden environmental crisis |
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Apple boss Steve Jobs's health hot topic at Macworld |
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Crowds expected at hi-tech show despite downturn |
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World's biggest parrot colony faces growing pressures |
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More US workers lost jobs last year than in any year since the Second World War, with employers axing 2.6 million jobs. |
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Did George Bush lead the world into economic crisis? |
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Why the brew has Colombians in a litigious mood |
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The Illinois House of Representatives votes to impeach the state's scandal-hit governor, Rod Blagojevich. |
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Barack Obama picks former Bill Clinton aide Leon Panetta to head the CIA and Adm Dennis Blair as Director of National Intelligence. |
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Life after the White House for President George W Bush |
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UK bank Lloyds TSB agrees to pay a $350m penalty to US authorities after admitted violating US sanctions. |
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Reserved seats for the US presidential inaugural parade sell out in 60 seconds, the ticket company says. |
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Five people are injured, three of them critically, in a gun attack at the end of a high school basketball game in Chicago. |
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The vocabulary that tells the story of a presidency |
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Advice for president |
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Sopranos actor Lillo Brancato has been jailed for 10 years for his part in a 2005 burglary in which an accomplice shot dead an off-duty police officer. |
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Golden Globe organisers issue a statement explaining a blunder on its website which suggested that Anne Hathaway had won a best actress award. |
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U2 frontman Bono will write an opinion column for The New York Times, the paper announces. |
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At least 30 people are killed as the bus they are travelling in veers off the road in northern Peru, police say. |
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Rescuers intensify searches in mountainous areas of central Costa Rica after an earthquake kills at least 19 people. |
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US President George W Bush takes his final flight as president aboard Air Force One, 10 days before leaving office. |
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TV anchor urges president-elect to keep a promise |
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More than 70 people were killed by lightning strikes in Brazil in 2008, the most for several years, scientists say. |
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Arizona are on course for the Super Bowl after beating Carolina, while Baltimore beat Tennessee to progress. |
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Two Google searches produce as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle, according to research by a Harvard University physicist. |
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Motown Records, one of the most influential record labels in the history of popular music, marks its 50th anniversary. |
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Mexico's drugs violence is set to feature in talks between US President-elect Barack Obama and Mexico's Felipe Calderon. |
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The unavoidable issue of the economy at the Consumer Electronics Show offered one ray of hope for the home entertainment industry. |
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Brazil and Argentina prove statistics do not apply to the beautiful game |
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Outgoing US President George W Bush warns his successor that a terrorist attack is still the "most urgent threat" to the US. |
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Mining giant Rio Tinto is postponing a $2.15bn expansion of its Brazilian iron ore mine as the economic slowdown bites. |
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A US judge rejects demands that Bernard Madoff should be jailed while prosecutors investigate his alleged $50bn (£33bn) fraud. |
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Roland Burris will be allowed to take up Barack Obama's vacant US Senate seat, senate officials say. |
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President Bush has said he will ask Congress to release the remaining $350bn of a US financial rescue package, after a request from Barack Obama. |
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The trial of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori for alleged human rights abuses enters its final stages. |
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Hillary Clinton is to appear in front of the US senate foreign relations committee to be confirmed as the next secretary of state. |
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A US businessman facing financial problems apparently fakes his own death by bailing out of his plane and letting it crash in a Florida swamp. |
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GM tries to stay upbeat at Detroit Motor Show |
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The countries that will be sad to see Bush go |
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The victim at the centre of the statutory rape case involving Roman Polanksi calls for charges to be dropped. |
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US President-elect Barack Obama will issue an order within days of taking office to close the Guantanamo camp, advisers say. |
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Officials in Vancouver are seeking emergency powers to borrow money for the 2010 Winter Games athletes' village. |
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President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan would be a "significant boost", says Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke. |
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An adviser to the Pope suggests a new punishment for drug traffickers - excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church. |
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Struggling US banking giant Citigroup says it is in talks with rival Morgan Stanley about a potential tie-up of their brokerage operations. |
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An adviser to the Pope suggests a new punishment for drug traffickers - excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church. |
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The rise and fall of a foreign policy philosophy |
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Former PM Tony Blair is to receive the United States' highest civil award - the Medal of Freedom - in Washington. |
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Yahoo has named Silicon Valley veteran Carol Bartz as its new chief executive to replace Jerry Yang |
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A US businessman suspected of faking his own death in a plane crash is found by police in Florida alive and well. |
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Colombian officials say a Farc rebel attack has killed killed three children and a woman, as two more rebels desert. |
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High stakes as Russian casinos bet on Bolivia |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says the economy can survive low oil prices, as he delivers his annual address. |
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The challenges facing the new Yahoo boss |
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The official in charge of trials at Guantanamo Bay is quoted as saying US agents tortured a Saudi man at the camp. |
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Matt Frei sees inaugural fever take hold in DC |
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Tracing Obama's train journey to his inauguration |
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The biggest record shop in New York, the Virgin Megastore in Times Square, is to close in April. |
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Emmy-winning actor Patrick McGoohan, best known for starring in cult 1960s TV show The Prisoner, has died at 80. |
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A California man has been arrested after allegedly arranging for his daughter to marry in exchange for beer, meat and $16,000. |
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Details emerge of US President-elect Barack Obama's custom-made limousine. |
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A US judge rejects an appeal that Bernard Madoff should be denied bail while prosecutors investigate his alleged $50bn (£33bn) fraud. |
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A US judge orders the release of a Guantanamo detainee, who was arrested in Pakistan when he was 14 years old. |
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Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is to take medical leave until the end of June, saying his health issues were more complex than he thought. |
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Actor Ricardo Montalban, who played the lead role in popular US TV show Fantasy Island, dies in Los Angeles, aged 88. |
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What would the US make of a stem cell U-turn? |
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A US businessman is charged for apparently trying to fake his own death in a plane crash because of financial problems. |
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Venezuela's lawmakers approved a constitutional amendment to remove limits on how many times a president can serve. |
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Canadian radio invites listeners to compile a playlist of their country's best songs for US President-elect Barack Obama. |
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US President Barack Obama requests a temporary halt to trials at Guantanamo Bay, hours after taking the oath of office. |
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US indexes see their biggest fall for almost two months, with banking shares ending sharply lower. |
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The New York Times is set to get $250m investment from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim to help the paper clear mounting debts |
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Italian carmaker Fiat is said to be in talks with troubled US firm Chrysler, as car sales fall around the world. |
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The US says a new supply route to Afghanistan has been agreed through Central Asia as an option to Pakistan. |
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An artificial pheromone could help clear North America's Great Lakes of their "vampire fish" by luring them into traps. |
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The US plane that ditched in a New York river had engines problems two days earlier, US investigators say. |
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US computer company T3 Technologies says it has filed a complaint against IBM with the European Commission. |
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The party of El Salvador's former leftist guerillas seems poised for victory in the parliamentary election. |
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A remarkable dung beetle has dumped its usual dinner of faeces and begun attacking and eating millipedes 10 times its length. |
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Matt Frei sees inaugural fever take hold in DC |
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The Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers reach Super Bowl XLIII. |
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Lance Armstrong finishes 64th in the Tour Down Under prologue as an estimated crowd of more than 130,000 watch his comeback on Sunday. |
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virulent Windows virus is racking up millions of victims, tripling in size in just four days, report computer security firms. |
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Canada launches an inquiry into the death of a man stunned by police with a Taser gun at an airport in 2007. |
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Two 9/11 suspects make defiant appearances at pre-trial hearings at Guantanamo Bay, on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration. |
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A church roof collapse in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo kills seven people and injures at least 50, officials say. |
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Top US commander Gen David Petraeus holds talks in Kyrgyzstan over the future of a key US base there. |
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IBM's latest quarterly profits rise 12% as the technology services firm issues a rosy forecast for 2009. |
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Car rental firm Hertz cuts more than 4,000 jobs amid slowing demand as businesses and consumers cut back on travel. |
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Struggling US banking giant Citigroup is to split the firm in two, as it reports a quarterly loss of $8.29bn (£5.6bn). |
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Italy's Focus at the Kercher murder trial is on Amanda Knox |
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Prisoner actor Patrick McGoohan remembered |
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Charting Detroit's Motown and motoring heyday |
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Tears of a town with no music around |
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Obama supporters celebrate in Washington bars |
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Obama's burden from the past and future promise |
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Glamour and fun at the inauguration balls |
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Which shares will win or lose under Barack Obama? |
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Civil rights veteran and his family share their story |
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Why scientists are applauding the Obama factor |
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US President Barack Obama requests a temporary halt to trials at Guantanamo Bay, hours after taking the oath of office. |
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US indexes see their biggest fall for almost two months, with banking shares ending sharply lower. |
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The New York Times is set to get $250m investment from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim to help the paper clear mounting debts |
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Italian carmaker Fiat is said to be in talks with troubled US firm Chrysler, as car sales fall around the world. |
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The US says a new supply route to Afghanistan has been agreed through Central Asia as an option to Pakistan. |
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An artificial pheromone could help clear North America's Great Lakes of their "vampire fish" by luring them into traps. |
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The US plane that ditched in a New York river had engines problems two days earlier, US investigators say. |
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US computer company T3 Technologies says it has filed a complaint against IBM with the European Commission. |
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The party of El Salvador's former leftist guerillas seems poised for victory in the parliamentary election. |
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A remarkable dung beetle has dumped its usual dinner of faeces and begun attacking and eating millipedes 10 times its length. |
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Matt Frei sees inaugural fever take hold in DC |
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The Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers reach Super Bowl XLIII. |
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Lance Armstrong finishes 64th in the Tour Down Under prologue as an estimated crowd of more than 130,000 watch his comeback on Sunday. |
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virulent Windows virus is racking up millions of victims, tripling in size in just four days, report computer security firms. |
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Canada launches an inquiry into the death of a man stunned by police with a Taser gun at an airport in 2007. |
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Two 9/11 suspects make defiant appearances at pre-trial hearings at Guantanamo Bay, on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration. |
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A church roof collapse in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo kills seven people and injures at least 50, officials say. |
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Top US commander Gen David Petraeus holds talks in Kyrgyzstan over the future of a key US base there. |
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IBM's latest quarterly profits rise 12% as the technology services firm issues a rosy forecast for 2009. |
