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The online news app Flipboard is named best in show at the first Appys – an awards ceremony for mobile device software.

The online news app Flipboard is named best in show at the first Appys – an awards ceremony for mobile device software.

Sona Jobarteh is the first female kora virtuoso in a family renown for its mastery of the traditional West African instrument.

Glamorous images of late screen siren Jane Russell

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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Colombian rebels release a video designed to show that a politician they have been holding hostage is alive.
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Voters in Bolivia’s gas-rich Tarija province overwhelmingly back greater autonomy in a referendum, exit polls suggest.
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Delegates pledge to look for common ground as the International Whaling Commission convenes in Chile.
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Peruvian demonstrators demanding a greater share of mining taxes overpower police and take dozens hostage.
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A US woman denies using a fake MySpace profile to bully a 13-year-old girl who later killed herself.
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Former US Vice-President Al Gore endorses the Democratic candidate for the presidency, Barack Obama.
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US producer prices jumped by more than many analysts expected in May amid soaring fuel and food prices.
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Eleven Brazilian soldiers are arrested after allegedly handing over three men to a drug gang that killed them.
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Police in Canada discover a human foot on a beach near Vancouver, the fifth to be found in the area in a year.
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Same-sex couples in California exchange vows following a court ruling legalising gay marriage in the state.
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A new version of web browser Firefox goes on release, aiming to set a record for the most downloads in 24 hours.
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Insurer American International Group, reeling from record losses, fires its chief executive Martin Sullivan.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice makes an unannounced visit to Lebanon following a crucial power-sharing deal.
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A New York judge cuts $10m from the $12m inheritance given by New York property tycoon Leona Helmsley to her pet dog.
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Oil prices hit a record $139.89 a barrel in trade in New York, despite a Saudi pledge to increase output.
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Japanese car maker Honda begins the first commercial production of a hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle.
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A Cuban boy at the centre of an international custody battle in 2000 reportedly joins Cuba’s Young Communist Union.
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Gordon Brown and George Bush warn Iran to accept their ”offers of partnership” or face international isolation.
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Rapper Kanye West is booed after appearing late on stage at the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee.
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More than 64 people have been jailed for using blogs as a means of protest since 2003, a US report finds.
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The brother of the UAE ruler will face trial on Thursday charged with assaulting a US citizen in a bar in Geneva.
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Two senior executives at Lehman Brothers are to step down days after the US bank announced huge losses.
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A British man accused of killing his wife and daughter cries as a jury in Massachusetts is shown footage of their bodies.
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Music giant Universal Music loses a court battle to stop an eBay trader from reselling promotional CDs.
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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez announces an economic stimulus plan aimed at helping businesses in the country.
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A takeover offer by Inbev, the maker of Stella Artois, for Budweiser maker Anheuser boosts shares in both firms.
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An obscenity trial in the US has been suspended after the judge acknowledged that his own website featured sexually explicit images.
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Yahoo agrees a deal with Google which will see Yahoo use the search engine giant’s advertising technology.
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US retail sales climbed by 1% in May, figures show, as tax rebates helped to lift consumer spending.
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Canada’s PM apologises for forcing 150,000 aboriginal children to attend boarding schools for assimilation.
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Officials call for help to shore up levees in Iowa, following heavy rain that has caused serious flooding across the US Midwest.
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US lawmakers approve a three-year plan to combat drug trafficking from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
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Tiger Woods starts as favourite for the US Open which starts on Thursday, despite not playing a competitive round since April.
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Much of the US saw weak economic growth in April and May, the Federal Reserve says.
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Venezuela’s president revokes a law that required citizens to co-operate with intelligence agencies or face jail.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin makes a $5m down payment to book a seat on a future space flight.
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US aviation authorities have hired so many new air traffic controllers they cannot train them efficiently, a report finds.
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Jim Johnson – the man leading Barack Obama’s search for a running mate – quits the campaign.
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Crew members repair a toilet on the international space station with a pump brought up by the shuttle Discovery.
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Brazilian military police arrest a soldier who revealed he was gay to a national news magazine but deny discrimination.
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The US unemployment rate rises at its fastest pace in more than two decades in May, stoking recession fears.
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A British man accused of murdering his wife and daughter planned to sell his story, a US court hears.
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Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin fails in his appeal to have his four-year drugs ban halved.
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Westerners found Peru’s Machu Picchu 40 years earlier than previously thought, historians say.
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Hillary Clinton is to hold an emotional party to thank campaign staff as she ends her bid for the US presidency.
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A US law that would have introduced a cap on carbon emissions is blocked by senators.
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The US air force’s chief of staff and another official resign after a series of errors involving nuclear weapons and parts.
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Trevor Graham – the coach of disgraced sprint trio Justin Gatlin, Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery – is found guilty of perjury.
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Britney Spears is not well enough to appear in the case dealing with the control of her assets, her lawyer says.
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A plane landing in Honduras overshoots a runway and hits a road, leaving at least two passengers dead, officials say.
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At least two people are killed and one seriously injured as a crane collapses in New York’s Upper East Side district.
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One of South America’s few remaining uncontacted tribes is photographed from the air on the Peru-Brazil border.
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Tropical Storm Alma hits Nicaragua, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people and flooding low-lying areas.
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International police agency Interpol arrests 185 people in five Latin American countries in a big anti-smuggling operation.
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The last British resident to be held in Guantanamo Bay is to be charged with terrorism, the BBC learns.
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A US marine is removed from duty over claims he distributed coins with biblical verses to citizens in Iraq.
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