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With President Obama after his 2009 swearing-in

The surreal afterlife of an ex-President

Alex Hannaford: What is Dubya doing now he's retired? Defending his reputation - and telling jokes

Inside Americas

Children in Manabi, Ecuador, use computers for the first time

Independent Appeal: Ecuador's yellow revolution

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Fairtrade has transformed the lives of banana farmers and their families but a computer charity has helped them take on the big boys. Guy Adams reports

Right-winger ahead in Chile poll

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

The Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera was leading in Chile's presidential election yesterday and is favourite to win a run-off in Latin America's most stable economy after 20 years of leftist rule.

Nobel economist Samuelson dies, aged 94

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Economist Paul Samuelson, who won a Nobel Prize for his effort to bring mathematical analysis into economics and helped shape tax policy for President Kennedy, has died at home aged 94.

Rachel Uchitel and Kalika Moquin have both been linked with Tiger Woods

The Sin City VIP service that seduced Tiger Woods

Monday, 14 December 2009

The art of adultery has been incorporated in the business models of Vegas clubs

Chile prepares for election run-off

Monday, 14 December 2009

Chile's presidential election appeared to be heading for a January run-off after initial projections showed a conservative billionaire leading but short of an outright victory.

In Darwin's footsteps: 30,000 people now live on the Galapagos islands, and another 200,000 visit every year, putting the fragile eco-system under immense pressure

Will Galapagos become the Pacific's Ibiza?

Sunday, 13 December 2009

Charles Darwin's wilderness is under pressure from tourism and urban growth. Hugh O'Shaughnessy and Sarah Clark report on Ecuador's fight back

A customer admires the goods in a gun shop in Greenbrier, Tennessee

Why it's getting easier to carry a gun in the US

Sunday, 13 December 2009

In the past two years, firearm restrictions have been relaxed in 24 states

Tiger Woods with his wife Elin Nordegren

Time-out Tiger: What drove Tiger Woods off course?

Sunday, 13 December 2009

As some sponsors cut the Woods image from their websites, David Randall looks at what went wrong.

Woman, 98, kills roommate, 100

Sunday, 13 December 2009

A 98-year-old woman was indicted Friday on a second-degree murder charge that alleges she strangled her 100-year-old nursing home roommate after making the victim's life "a living hell" because she thought the woman was "taking over the room."

Tiger Woods, left, drives a boat off the yacht Privacy off the resort Sandy Lane, in Barbados, in 2004. He is said to be on the yacht with his wife to escape publicity about his affairs

Tiger Woods quits golf 'indefinitely'

Saturday, 12 December 2009

Robert Verkaik: Golfer 'needs to focus attention on being a better husband, father and person'.

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