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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.
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.
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
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
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 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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