Americas
US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America
From the Caribbean to Brazil, political opposition to US plans for 'full-spectrum operations' is escalating rapidly
Inside Americas
US health care bill clears Senate hurdle
Sunday, 22 November 2009
60-39 vote clears way for a bruising, full-scale debate on the bill.
The Sarah Palin phenomenon
Sunday, 22 November 2009
The American right's darling sold a record-breaking 300,000 copies of her autobiography on day one. What does this say about the US?
I was Prince Albert of Monaco's private spook
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Ex-novelist who ran intelligence service for Monte Carlo's royal family relaunches legal action against his old boss
Peruvian gang 'killed peasant farmers for their fat'
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Police claim bodies were drained by killers seeking to sell lipids for use in cosmetics
Chavez praises Carlos the Jackal
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Hugo Chavez has defended the alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was an important "revolutionary fighter" who supported the cause of the Palestinians.
Fake That: The uncanny world of America's biggest celebrity-lookalike convention
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Holy mackerel! Look over there! Isn't that Richard Gere, with his dreamy silver hair and professorial wire spectacles, taking a leak in the Gents?
US senator calls for return of Lockerbie bomber to jail
Saturday, 21 November 2009
A US senator has written to Gordon Brown, demanding the immediate return of the Lockerbie bomber to prison. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's early release from Greenock jail in Scotland on compassionate grounds was granted on the assumption that he had only three months to live because he was suffering from prostate cancer.
Hurricane Katrina: It was not an act of God
Friday, 20 November 2009
Judge's ruling that negligence led to flooding may lead to a huge government payout
'Daily Show' Brit gets own comedy series
Friday, 20 November 2009
John Oliver graduates from Jon Stewart's hugely successful US news satire
How Ashcroft became the banker to paradise
Friday, 20 November 2009
Stephen Foley : Much is known about Lord Ashcroft's involvement in the Caribbean territory of Belize. But the British public has heard less about his interests in the Turks and Caicos islands.
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