Americas
Pacific heights: North Shore of Oahu hits the jackpot
Waimea Bay's waves are legendary but yesterday brought the biggest swell in years and a dramatic surfing contest.
Inside Americas
Nanny prosecutor is likely Kennedy successor new
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
David Usborne: Martha Coakley, who led the 1997 case against Briton Louise Woodward, is set to be next US Senator from Massachusetts
Woods counts cost of scandal as television adverts disappear new
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Golf star plummets 18 places on list of industry's most valuable 'faces'
Convicted killer executed with pet anaesthetic
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
The state of Ohio yesterday executed a convicted murderer using the first lethal injection to contain just a single poison rather than the cocktail of three chemicals that has hitherto been used across the US.
Tiger Woods' mother-in-law leaves hospital
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Barbro Holmberg returns to golfer's Florida home after treatment for stomach pain
American charged over Mumbai attacks
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
The terror attacks in Mumbai that paralysed the city and killed 166 people have been linked to an American.
Stephen Foley: Ben Bernanke v Ron Paul. Round Seven
Monday, 7 December 2009
Ben Bernanke has just stepped up his fight against Ron Paul's plan to "audit the Fed".
Lesbian bishop sparks new church row
Monday, 7 December 2009
Archbishop warns election of Mary Glasspool could divide Anglicanism in two
US admits it has no idea of Bin Laden's whereabouts
Monday, 7 December 2009
The United States has no real idea where Osama bin Laden, the al-Qa'ida leader, may be hiding, and has not had the benefit of any substantial intelligence on his possible whereabouts "for years", the US Secretary of Defence, Robert Gates, conceded yesterday.
Morales set for landslide re-election
Monday, 7 December 2009
President Evo Morales looked set for an easy re-election in Bolivia last night after exit polls suggested he had won back power with more than 62 per cent of the vote. Mr Morales' closest challenger, the center-right candidate Manfred Reyes, won about 23 per cent. Mr Morales focused his campaign on helping Bolivia's impoverished indigenous peoples. AP
Drug supplier to sport's big cheats is back in business and 'clean'
Sunday, 6 December 2009
If America had a Hall of Fame for sporting disgrace, Victor Conte would occupy its most prominent berth. For almost a decade, the San Francisco-based nutritionist supplied performance-enhancing drugs to some of the world's most notorious cheats, from the steroid-enhanced baseball slugger Barry Bonds to the Olympic athlete Marion Jones and the British sprinter Dwain Chambers.
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