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Porfirio 'Pepe' Lobo

Presidential victory in Honduras marred by dispute

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

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Obama to reveal war plan  new

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

President Barack Obama today reveals his plan for winning an unpopular eight-year-old war in Afghanistan, embarking on a mission to sell sceptical Americans on the need to put thousands more troops in harm's way and to spend additional billions of taxpayer dollars.

Police kill coffee shop massacre suspect  new

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Police today shot dead the prime suspect in the murder of four Seattle officers.

Solange Magnano died of a pulmonary embolism on Sunday

Former Miss Argentina dies after cosmetic surgery on buttocks  new

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.

Chelsea Clinton

Former first family gains a son as Chelsea Clinton gets engaged

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

The suspense, such as it was, is over. Chelsea Clinton, the 29-year old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, will marry her long-time boyfriend, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky.

Man hunted after fatal shooting of four police officers

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

A man suspected of shooting to death four police officers in a coffee shop was not found yesterday in the Seattle home where he was thought to have been holed up overnight. He is likely to be wounded after the bloody encounter.

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

Police draw blank in hunt for killings suspect

Monday, 30 November 2009

Police had spent hours surrounding the home of the suspect in the slayings of four police officers at a suburban coffee shop.

Police officers at the Forza coffee shop in Tacoma, Washington, where four of their colleagues were shot dead by a lone gunman

Four police officers killed in coffee shop 'execution'

Monday, 30 November 2009

Gunman burst into US coffee shop and shot dead four police officers as they caught up on paperwork.

Tiger Woods, Elin Nordegren, Rachel Uchitel

Mystery of Tiger Woods and the golf club 'rescue'

Monday, 30 November 2009

"I'm asked why people don't often see me and Elin in gossip magazines or tabloids," Tiger Woods wrote on his Facebook page a few weeks ago. "I think we've avoided a lot of media attention because we're kind of boring."

President Obama: Battle plan

Obama set to send in 30,000 extra troops

Monday, 30 November 2009

Barack Obama's aides are putting the finishing touches to a speech expected to announce more than 30,000 additional troops for Afghanistan, which they hope will shore up popular support for the war.

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