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A BP report says "a series of failures" by BP and its contractors were to blame for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Former newspaper editor and Britain's Got Talent judge Piers will replace US TV presenter Larry King on the US network CNN, it is announced.
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President Barack Obama has taken to the campaign trail to sell his strategy for boosting the US economy.
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Mexican drug violence is looking increasingly like an insurgency, a comment strongly rejected by Mexico.
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A lion lunged at a trainer as stunned onlookers watched in horror, at Las Vegas's MGM Grand Hotel and Casino.
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President Obama defends his opposition to extending Bush-era tax cuts for wealthier people and criticises what he calls Republican obstruction.
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A US pastor says he is not "backing down" from plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11, despite international condemnation.
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Residents of a small street called Lustful Court in the US state of Georgia are told to raise a petition if they want a less provocative street name.
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A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.
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The imam of an Islamic centre planned near New York's Ground Zero vows to name its financial backers amid accusations it is funded by extremists.
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Muslim and Arabic news media react to Koran burning plan
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Canada now has interest rates of 1%, after raising its key lending benchmark for the third time this year.
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A scale model of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and how it is being repaired
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Angelina Jolie has visited Nowshera in north-west Pakistan to highlight the plight of more than 20 million people affected by the country's worst ever floods.
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A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.
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Australia and New Zealand top the table in the largest ever study into global charitable behaviour, but some poor countries also scoring high.
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Sir Paul McCartney is to be presented with a Kennedy Center honour at the White House in Washington in December.
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The environmental impact and effect of a drilling moratorium imposed by the Obama administration following the Gulf oil spill is continuing to be felt in towns like Lafayette, Louisiana.
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The National Basketball Association wants to expand the game and are looking at emerging markets such as India and China to push their products.
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Boeing announces cuts at its military aircraft division in readiness for future reductions in US government defence spending.
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Hewlett Packard files a lawsuit against its former head Mark Hurd to try and stop him joining database software maker Oracle.
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The University of Baltimore is offering a new course in zombie studies.
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President Obama is to call for company tax breaks in his bid to regain the initiative as mid-term elections loom.
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What does retirement mean where you live?
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Andrea Bocelli is inviting survivors of the attacks on 11 September 2001 in New York to concerts on the Amalfi coast.
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US Muslims are free but that's not enough, argues Michael Goldfarb
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What does Mad Men tell us about this most mythologised decade?
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Escaping the hustle and bustle of city life in Ontario, Canada
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Canada provides backdrop for Kerouac's On The Road
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How Silicon Valley's 'rich ecology' works
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