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MGM's famous lion logo introduced many classic films

Hollywood's most glamorous studio prepares to sell up

The home of Tom and Jerry, James Bond and classic musicals is laden with nearly $4bn debt

Inside Americas

Garbo - a descendant of the film star Greta - founded Club Bounce after being refused entry to a Hollywood club

Welcome to Club Bounce: Where the big – and beautiful – people go

Sunday, 15 November 2009

Overweight Americans, tired of discrimination, are fighting for 'size acceptance'. And they're taking their battle to the dancefloor.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a new picture, reportedly taken by the International Red Cross, which purports to show him at Guantanamo Bay

Justice at Ground Zero for September 11 accused

Saturday, 14 November 2009

Five men set to leave Guantanamo Bay to face trial in a civilian court in New York

Obama seeks equal partnership in Asia

Saturday, 14 November 2009

US President Barack Obama pressed on with his mission to repair America's global standing, telling Asians he was determined to engage them as equal partners in the economy, diplomacy and security.

A street memorial in London

Crime Exchange: What we can learn from each other

Saturday, 14 November 2009

Our crime correspondent's swap with his counterpart on 'The Baltimore Sun' ends today with the two reporters revealing the transatlantic tips that could benefit both cities.

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has started an intense publicity campaign for her memoir, Going Rogue, already a bestseller before official publication

Palin uses book to get her revenge

Saturday, 14 November 2009

Memoir scornful of Republican Party officials and media strategy during failed election bid

Obama's lawyer makes quiet exit after Gitmo frustrations

Saturday, 14 November 2009

In the first major shake-up in the Obama inner circle, Greg Craig is resigning as White House counsel. He will be replaced by Robert Bauer, a leading Democratic lawyer and Barack Obama's personal attorney, whose own wife, Anita Dunn, stepped down this week from the pivotal job of White House communications director. Reports of the impending departure of Mr Craig, responsible for advising the President on legal issues involving the White House, have circulated here for months, but had been stoutly denied.

US targets Iran with bid to seize NY skyscraper

Saturday, 14 November 2009

In what could be one of the biggest counter-terrorism seizures in US history, federal prosecutors sought to take over four US mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by a Muslim organisation suspected of being controlled by the Iranian government.

Crawford 'blackmailed by model'

Saturday, 14 November 2009

Cindy Crawford and her husband were the targets of an elaborate blackmail plot involving a photograph that shows their seven-year-old daughter bound, gagged and tied to a chair, the FBI has claimed.

President Barack Obama leaves the White House yesterday to embark on his visit to Asia

Obama's advisers at war over Afghan conflict

Friday, 13 November 2009

President accused of dithering as leaked memo reveals bitter divisions over strategy in his inner circle

9/11 suspects facing US trial

Friday, 13 November 2009

September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York for trial in a civilian US court and prosecutors expect to seek the death penalty.

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