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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'

Police claim bodies were drained by killers seeking to sell lipids for use in cosmetics

Inside Americas

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.

Resident David Diaz surveys the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wreaked at Biloxi, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, when it struck on 29 August, 2005

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

John Oliver, as 'Senior British Correspondent' on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

'Daily Show' Brit gets own comedy series

Friday, 20 November 2009

John Oliver graduates from Jon Stewart's hugely successful US news satire

Barack Obama shows his skills in the Korean martial art of taekwondo to the South Korean President Lee Myung-bak

Behind Asia's nice manners, tough lessons for Obama

Friday, 20 November 2009

Frustrating tour of Asia has left America with much to think about

An aerial view of the Turks and Caicos Islands

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.

Happy holidays – without Santa Claus or pumpkins

Friday, 20 November 2009

The Grinch stole Christmas back in the days of innocence, but today climate change and sexual alarmism are doing just as good a job as Dr Seuss's mean critter.

Ms Winfrey will tell viewers that her purpose in leaving is to focus on the new channel she has long been preparing to launch

Oprah Winfrey quits TV show after 25 years

Friday, 20 November 2009

Oprah Winfrey, the reigning monarch of daytime chat and occasional champion of presidents and authors, is to announce on her television show today that after nearly a quarter of a century of syndication success she is preparing to quit her show for good the year after next.

Girl tasered by police with mother's permission

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Now the US town's mayor is calling for an investigation into whether the Taser use was appropriate.

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