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President Barack Obama will send an additional force of over 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan in the next six months

Obama's pledge: they'll be home in three years

Strict conditions attached as President dispatches more troops to Afghanistan

Inside Americas

Cormac McCarthy is to sell the typewriter on which he has written all his novels

After five million words, the end of the road for Cormac's typewriter

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Pulitzer-winning novelist finally gives up on the machine that has served him throughout his literary career

Tiger Woods declined to speak to the Florida Highway patrol yesterday

Tiger escapes criminal charge as questions persist

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Tiger Woods saw at least one of his problems disappear yesterday when police announced there was insufficient evidence to pursue criminal charges in connection with last week's late-night car crash outside his Florida home.

Alex Freyre and Jose Maria Di Bello had hoped to marry yesterday

First gay Latin spouses snubbed

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

They were supposed to be getting married in the morning. But as the happy couple were picking up bouquets and having a final fitting for their suits, a judge in Buenos Aires issued a court order preventing them from becoming Latin America's first husband and husband.

Ron Paul on the campaign trail in last year's race for the Republican party's presidential nomination

US politics: Every man for himself!

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

It's taken a while, but America is warming to Ron Paul and his radical brand of extreme libertarianism

Suspect in police shootings killed

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

A patrolman has shot dead the man suspected of gunning down four police officers over the weekend. Four people have been arrested for allegedly helping the suspect elude authorities during the two-day manhunt.

Obama to lay down Afghan exit dates

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

The US president will give end-of-mission targets as he confirms that the US is sending 30,000 more US troops, bringing its total there to 100,000.

Porfirio 'Pepe' Lobo

Presidential victory in Honduras marred by dispute

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Legitimacy of election in question after former leader was ousted in coup in June

Maurice Clemmons, a suspect in the shootings of four Lakewood Department police officers at a coffee shop in Tacoma

Murders suspect killed

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Maurice Clemmons was wanted for killing four police officers in Seattle.

Solange Magnano died of a pulmonary embolism on Sunday

Former Miss Argentina dies after cosmetic surgery on buttocks

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Former Miss Argentina, Solange Magnano, has died from complications after undergoing cosmetic surgery on her buttocks.

Rachel Uchitel, right, with Gloria Allred in LA on Sunday

Woods out of golf contest as 'other woman' flies in to LA

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Tiger Woods won't be coming to Hollywood any time soon, but the "other woman" linked to his mysterious late-night car crash is already there – holed up with one of America's most headline-prone celebrity lawyers.

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