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Woman attacked by chimp reveals face on Oprah
A woman who was attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee revealed her heavily disfigured face on television last night, saying she is blind and has to eat through a straw, but isn't angry.
Inside Americas
The Crime Exchange: 'We're just fighting a failed drug war'
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Our crime reporter's job swap with his counterpart from the 'Baltimore Sun' has provoked a passionate debate on both sides of the Atlantic
Hiroshima hails Barack, but he's too busy to visit
Thursday, 12 November 2009
It was a speech Tsutomu Yamaguchi had waited 64 years to hear. Watching television at home in Hiroshima in April, one of Japan's most famous A-bomb survivors heard an American president call for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Honduran crisis 'threatens democracy'
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Latin America faces wave of coups if world fails to take notice, says adviser
Brazil power cut traced to massive storm
Thursday, 12 November 2009
An investigation was under way yesterday in Brazil into the causes of a giant electricity blackout that plunged cities from Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paolo into darkness on Tuesday night and for a short while shut down the entire grid in neighbouring Paraguay.
Abortion hijacks the US healthcare debate
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Battle over amendment that may prevent women paying for terminations
Obama's Asian odyssey
Thursday, 12 November 2009
In a world of changing realities, all eyes will be on the President on his tour of the Far East. But can he make any real impact? Rupert Cornwell reports
'Balloon boy' parents to plead guilty
Thursday, 12 November 2009
The Colorado parents who reported their 6-year-old son floated away aboard a helium balloon will plead guilty to some charges and serve probation so that the family can stay together, the attorney for the boy's father said today.
Mark Hughes in Baltimore: 'Wire' star joins real fight against crime
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
The latest instalment of our crime reporter's job-swap with his counterpart at 'The Baltimore Sun' focuses on community efforts to tackle the US city's crime problem
Decision day looms for Obama's troop dilemma
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
President accused of dithering by Republicans as opposition to war grows
Bear Stearns fund managers found not guilty
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
In a huge setback for government prosecutors, a jury in New York City last night acquitted two former hedge-fund managers with Bear Stearns of lying to clients about the safety of their money even when they themselves allegedly saw disaster around the corner because of the imploding sub-prime mortgage market.
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