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Kate and Gerry McCann

FBI hunts for investigator paid £500,000 by McCanns

Briton implicated in string of frauds thought to have changed his identity

Inside Americas

Battle lines drawn on US health Bill

Monday, 23 November 2009

Senate vote clears way for debate to begin on historic legislation

Guy Adams: Fox suspends 'racist' basketball commentators

Monday, 23 November 2009

There’s a classic episode of South Park which revolves around a simple observation: while racism against African Americans, or Latinos, or Native Americans has become firmly unacceptable, mainstream US culture can be surprisingly tolerant of discrimination against people who happen to boast a foreign nationality.

US air force officers and Congressmen tour the Palanquero base in Puerto Salgar, Colombia, in August. The base is expected to host US air force counter-narcotics missions under the new bilateral deal

US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America

Sunday, 22 November 2009

From the Caribbean to Brazil, political opposition to US plans for 'full-spectrum operations' is escalating rapidly

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 write stuff: Sarah Palin at a book signing in Norwood, Ohio

The Sarah Palin phenomenon

Sunday, 22 November 2009

The American right's darling sold a 300,000 copies of her autobiography on day one. David Randall reports.

Former private investigator Robert Eringer says he was hired to root out corruption

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

A police officer in Lima shows off bottles of human fat that were allegedly found on gang members who confessed to murdering local peasants to harvest fat

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.

Professional Sarah Palin and Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonators look for a gun prop for Sarah Palin's address during the Sunburst Convention of Professional Tribute Artists

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.

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