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Police chief criticises officer over gun at snowball fight new
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Washington's police chief criticised a veteran detective yesterday for pulling a gun during a mass snowball fight. Authorities said the officer is on desk duty while the case is under investigation.
Jorge Munoz: The Angel of Queens
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Every night, after he's finished his day job as a school bus driver, one New Yorker brings salvation to the hungry and homeless – in the form of hot meals. David Usborne reports
Waterfall puts Chavez in a froth
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Being angry about the devil is a standard refrain for Hugo Chavez. In 2006 he declared that George Bush was Lucifer incarnate, and just last week he told the Copenhagen climate summit that in Barack Obama's presence he could "still smell sulphur". At home, though, the devil has been ousted by a holier enemy: the Venezuelan leader has turned his ire on a dead American Angel.
Obama hails healthcare vote
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
President Obama hailed a US Senate vote that moved a bill on his healthcare reform closer to passing yesterday, and congratulated lawmakers on defying special interests.
Actress Brittany Murphy 'dies of natural causes'
Monday, 21 December 2009
The Clueless star apparently collapsed in her Holywood bathroom.
Healthcare reform reaches US Senate
Monday, 21 December 2009
Concessions secure 60th vote but scheme is shadow of what was promised
Blizzard-like storm slams US East Coast
Sunday, 20 December 2009
A blizzard-like storm rocked the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern US states on yesterday, crippling travel across the region and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power.
Freed after 35 years in jail for crime he did not commit
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Singled out at an identity parade, but DNA tests prove James Bain could not have raped nine-year-old boy.
Britons win appeal over Brazil insurance fraud
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Courts Two British law graduates held in Brazil for insurance fraud have been acquitted after an appeal. Shanti Andrews and Rebecca Turner, both 23, were arrested in July after telling police they had been robbed while backpacking.
Texas polygamist gets 33 years for child sex abuse
Friday, 18 December 2009
The Texas attorney general's office says a 57-year-old member of a polygamist group has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for the sexual assault of a child.
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