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The US government is reported to be considering pumping extra capital into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Former White House press secretary Tony Snow, has died of cancer, US television station Fox News announces.
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Gay US bishop Gene Robinson is forced to halt a sermon to a London church after being heckled from the congregation.
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A leading German politician is the latest to reject a tentative plan by Barack Obama to speak at Berlin’s historic Brandenburg Gate.
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One of the largest mortgage lenders in the US, the California-based IndyMac Bank, collapses amid a growing credit crisis.
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The leaders of Venezuela and Colombia say they want to put aside their differences and improve co-operation.
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Police in Mexico are investigating online classified ads purporting to offer contract killings.
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Yahoo’s board angrily rejects a joint offer from Microsoft and the investor Carl Icahn, describing it as “ludicrous”.
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A major row breaks out among Brazil’s judges over a probe that sees a businessman arrested and freed twice in two days.
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UBS overhauls its management structure as it tries to recover from losses linked to the sub-prime crisis.
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Two European envoys are in Colombia to try to break the deadlock over the fate of rebel-held hostages, officials say.
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A Chilean judge adds two life terms to the sentences being served by former secret police chief Manuel Contreras.
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A police force in a US town adds $12 to fines for offending motorists to offset high fuel costs of chasing them down.
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The timetable for rebuilding work at the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York is abandoned as projects run over budget.
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Hollywood producers make a final offer to actors in their pay dispute, warning the industry is already on de facto strike.
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US military prosecutors file charges against the alleged mastermind behind the 2000 attack on the USS Cole.
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Barack Obama and Bill Clinton speak for the first time since Hillary Clinton quit the US Democratic presidential race.
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Hillary Clinton joins Barack Obama at a public rally for the first time since she quit the Democratic presidential race.
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Conservative Anglican leaders are to create a new global alliance to combat liberal trends in the Church.
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The International Whaling Commission’s annual meeting ends with members agreeing to try and resolve their differences.
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A powerful US gun lobby group contests handgun bans in two cities after the Supreme Court struck down a ban in DC.
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Guatemalan Interior Minister Vinicio Gomez dies in a helicopter crash north of the capital, officials say.
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The US dentist who masterminded thefts from hundreds of human corpses will serve up to 54 years in jail.
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US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain spar over immigration as they court Hispanic voters.
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The chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates, is stepping down from his day-to-day job at the world’s largest software company.
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The US justice department agrees a multimillion-dollar settlement with a man named in the 2001 anthrax attack probe.
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Bill Clinton’s spokesman says the former US president is committed to helping Barack Obama win the US presidential election.
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The global whaling body opens the door to the eventual partial lifting of the commercial whaling ban.
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Chicago residents share tips about how to avoid coming under attack by dive-bombing blackbirds.
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In a landmark ruling, a US court overturns the designation of a Guantanamo inmate as an “enemy combatant”.
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Visa, the world’s largest credit card network, is paying Facebook $2m to advertise its small business service.
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Five Bolivian governors reject President Evo Morales’s plans for an August recall referendum and urge an general election. instead.
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A top aide to John McCain apologises for saying a terror attack on US soil would help his presidential campaign.
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Mexico City’s mayor accuses police of ’serious errors’ during a nightclub raid in which 12 people died in a stampede.
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Two of the oldest US agricultural firms are set to join forces in a deal worth $4.4bn (

US Comedian George Carlin, best known for his Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV routine, dies aged 71.
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Singer Celine Dion is responsible for the world’s worst ever cover song, a poll compiled by music experts says.
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Farmers in Argentina lift most of the roadblocks they set up during a three-month row with the government.
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Americans gave a record $306bn to charity in 2007 but fundraisers say economic woes may hit future giving.
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Former Brazilian football star Pele was robbed by an armed gang while on his way to his seaside home, it emerges.
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