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Web-rant pilot crashes plane into tax building
A software engineer crashed his aircraft into a US tax agency building in a suicide attack.
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Dalai Lama 'very happy' with US visit
Friday, 19 February 2010
President seeks to cool row with China by hosting low-key meeting with Tibetan exile outside Oval Office
Argentina to renew case for Falklands autonomy
Friday, 19 February 2010
Argentina is to make its case for sovereignty over the Falkland Islands to other Latin American countries, as tensions over potential oil reserves in the South Atlantic grow.
Obama courts Damascus in hope of ending Middle East deadlock
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Assad goes from pariah to ally as US breaks five years of diplomatic isolation for Syria
I threw baby from bridge, father tells police
Thursday, 18 February 2010
A massive search for a baby believed to have been thrown into a freezing river by her estranged father will resume today.
Judge in Haiti frees eight accused of kidnapping
Thursday, 18 February 2010
A Haitian judge said yesterday that he would order the release of eight of 10 American missionaries accused of kidnapping children. Laura Silsby, the group's leader, and Charisa Coulter were being detained, investigating judge Bernard Sainvil said.
Obama says stimulus bill saved troubled US economy
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
President Barack Obama vigorously defended his $787bn stimulus today, insisting it rescued Americans from the worst of the economic calamity and ripping Republican critics who called it a waste.
Palin blasts show mocking Down Syndrome son
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Sarah Palin, the former U.S. vice presidential candidate, is used to finding herself the brunt of jokes but her humor snapped when the animated TV show "Family Guy" appeared to mock her son who has Down syndrome.
Argentina in bid to control Falklands shipping
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Argentina's president has issued a decree seeking to control all shipping to and from the Falkland Islands, escalating her fight with Britain over drilling for oil and gas in the South Atlantic.
Sarkozy to take reconstruction plan to Haiti
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
President Nicolas Sarkozy is bringing a French plan to rebuild Haiti with him on Wednesday's visit to the Caribbean country, a trip officials hope will usher in a new era between France and its former colony.
Jesse Jackson calls Oregon police shooting an execution
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
A prominent civil rights leader called the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man an execution and criticized plans to allow the officer to return to regular duty this week.
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