We have started to collect the most important news related to United States in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
A year since the Lockerbie bomber walked free from prison on compassionate grounds, two US senators have said a cloud of suspicion hangs over his release.
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Israel and the Palestinians agree to resume direct negotiations for the first time in 20 months, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says.
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A group of US senators says a "cloud of suspicion" still hangs over the release a year ago of the man responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
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A US judge dismisses claims by a promoter that Michael Jackson and his family breached a contract to play a reunion concert.
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Viktor Bout, alleged arms dealer dubbed the "Merchant of Death", is to be extradited to the US, a Thai court has said.
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A federal grand jury indicts retired US baseball star Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about using steroids and growth hormone.
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Authorities stop an American Airlines flight before takeoff at San Francisco International Airport after there was a threat to the plane.
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The US pledges its full support for flood-hit Pakistan, as a UN session intended to boost the international response gets under way in New York.
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The operation to completely seal off the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well is pushed back to September, US officials say.
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The last US combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, seven years after the US-led invasion.
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The last American combat brigade in Iraq leaves the country, two weeks ahead of a deadline for an end to the US combat mission.
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A US egg company extends a nationwide food recall to 380 million eggs, after outbreaks of salmonella poisoning in a number of states.
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US comic Chelsea Handler is to host this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
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The US is preparing to release a statement establishing details for direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, the BBC has learned.
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General Motors has paved the way for an initial public offering, expected to be the second largest, perhaps even the largest, share sale in US history.
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General Motors has paved the way for an initial public offering, expected to be the second largest share sale in US history.
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A US Catholic diocese is sued for negligence for allowing a convicted child abuser to continue working in a California church.
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The huge reverse brain drain of Indian IT experts from the US
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Scores of mourners file into the Anchorage Baptist Temple for the funeral of former US Senator Ted Stevens, who was killed in a plane crash.
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The first of up to 1,200 National Guard troops are deployed along the US border with Mexico as part of President Barack Obama's pledge to increase security.
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An American woman who was imprisoned for aiding left-wing rebels in Peru turns herself in after a court revokes her parole.
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The US says it will support the creation of an international commission to investigate alleged war crimes by Burma's military junta.
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President Barack Obama says an over-supply of homes is hindering the US economic recovery, but he says the situation is slowly improving.
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The American Ballet Theatre company is to perform in Cuba later this year for the first time in 50 years.
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Jay-Z has topped a list of the world's richest rappers, beating Diddy in a list from US magazine Forbes.
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Time magazine journalist Jim Frederick describes the sequence of events which led to four US soldiers committing a war atrocity in Iraq in 2006
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US soul singer Erykah Badu is fined and will serve six months' probation for stripping naked in public for a music video.
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A Colombia court rules a 2009 deal allowing US troops access to army bases is unconstitutional and needs congressional approval.
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Two former employees of a security company owned by the US firm formerly known as Blackwater plead not guilty to killing two Afghans in 2009.
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Two US astronauts may become the first twins to be flying in space at the same time.
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A federal judge throws out piracy charges against six Somali men accused of attacking a US Navy ship off the coast of Africa, although other charges stand.
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Iraq's transition to democracy and the US withdrawal will not be derailed by the deadly bombing in Baghdad, says the White House.
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A mother has confessed to suffocating two of her children, after initially claiming they died when her car plunged into a river, US police say.
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US President Barack Obama will attend a summit with European Union leaders in Lisbon in November, after skipping the last event.
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The US clothing chain American Apparel warns it might not be able to continue because of debts and trading losses.
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US officials confirm the existence of videotapes of the 2002 interrogation of an alleged 9/11 plotter, reportedly at a secret prison.
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Retail giant Wal-Mart sees quarterly profits rise 3.6%, but sales decline further in its home US market.
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A golf club president from London who US authorities claim sold arms to Iran says he is the victim of a customs sting.
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US lensman Herman Leonard's smoky scenes from the jazz age
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Taxis and lorries in Japan are hit by unusual disruption from US military bases - baby babble that interferes with their radios.
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The US government will hold its first major public forum on housing finance on Thursday, with top bankers, economists and federal officials, as home buyers struggle to get credit despite low interest rates.
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The US defence department says China's military is growing in a secretive way, raising the risks of conflict and misunderstandings.
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A US appeals court rules same-sex weddings in California cannot continue while it considers the constitutionality of the state's gay marriage ban.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid opposes plans to build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terror attacks, days after Barack Obama defended them.
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Lori Berenson, an American who was sentenced in Peru for collaborating with left-wing rebels, has apologised for her actions.
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The US will require an environmental assessment for new deep-water offshore drilling, government regulators say.
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A US consular team has gained access to an American sentenced to hard labour in North Korea, Washington says.
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Barclays Bank is to pay $298m (£190m) to settle criminal charges that it violated US sanctions in dealings with Cuba, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Burma.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says the United States will definitely start reducing the number of its soldiers in Afghanistan next July.
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Veteran action movie The Expendables goes straight to the top of the US box office chart on its debut, raking in $35m.
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Andy Murray believes his victory in the Rogers Cup is excellent preparation for the US Open, which begins on 30 August.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor receives her last rites from a priest in a Los Angeles hospital after surgery to remove two blood clots.
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Opticians are concerned that teenagers in the US could be putting their eyesight at risk by using controversial contact lenses styled on a Lady Gaga video.
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Thai police are searching for a British man they suspect murdered an American fellow Thai boxing expert.
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Thousands of military personnel from the US and South Korea launch the latest in a series of military exercises, despite warnings from Pyongyang.
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Tiger Woods fails to qualify for one of the automatic spots on the US Ryder Cup team following the USPGA on Sunday.
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Martin Kaymer wins the USPGA in a play-off with Bubba Watson after Dustin Johnson is controversially penalised in the USPGA.
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At least eight spectators are killed and more are wounded at an off-road motor race in California after a vehicle crashes into them.
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A US man accused of murdering a woman he met through the classified ads on the Craigslist website is found dead in prison.
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The new US commander in Afghanistan, Gen David Petraeus, says US forces will only begin withdrawing in 2011 if conditions allow.
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Spectators killed at US California 200 off-road race
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America has sent several planeloads of firefighting equipment to Russia, to help tackle the huge forest fires which continue to rage in parts of the country.
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Four people are killed in a shooting after a wedding-anniversary party at a restaurant in Buffalo, New York.
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A suspected US drone strike on Pakistan kills at least 12 militants in a tribal area near the Afghan border, officials say.
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The US and Afghan presidents pledge to continue working together to combat the Taliban during a lengthy video conference conversation.
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American Matt Kuchar leads the USPGA Championship after a fog-curtailed second day, with Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy tied for third and Tiger Woods tied for 36th.
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A US court awards the company that salvaged artefacts from the Titanic $110m for its efforts, but has yet to decide how the sum will be funded.
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Two major South American airlines, Brazil's TAM Linhas Aereas and Chile's LAN, plan a merger that will create the biggest carrier in the region.
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A man arrested in connection with a series of nearly 20 stabbings agrees to return to Michigan to face charges in one of the attacks.
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US Senate candidate Alvin Greene, a surprise winner of the South Carolina Democratic primary, is indicted on two pornography-related charges.
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The US government says BP will continue drilling a relief well to permanently plug the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.
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President Barack Obama signs into law a bill to increase security along the US-Mexico border, a day after it was passed by the Senate.
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Thriller writer says US spies knocked out wife's computer over Guinea-Bissau coup
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The first trial at Guantanamo Bay under US President Barack Obama is suspended after the defence lawyer faints in court.
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US retail sales rose in July after two months of declines, largely due to an increase in car sales, figures show.
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A former director of the CIA, General Michael Hayden, has told the BBC that the shift to sharing intelligence has made a leak of tens of thousands of secret US military documents "inevitable".
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A US judge who overturned California's same-sex marriage ban rules gay nuptials may resume next week, while appeals against the ruling are heard.
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Brazil and the US agree a $21m debt for nature swap to protect threatened tropical forests.
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As scientists in the US launch a survey of adult eating habits, one very picky eater took BBC News grocery shopping to highlight her turmoil.
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The US Senate is recalled from its summer break to pass a bill which increases security along the US-Mexico border.
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Some 30,000 people queue for rent assistance in Atlanta, Georgia, as the US housing crisis places a growing strain on poorer people.
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Atlanta police arrest a man as he tries to board a flight to Israel, after some 20 stabbings leave five people dead across three states.
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The US Department of Agriculture cuts its outlook for world wheat production after revising down its forecast for Russia.
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The chief executive of the US car giant General Motors announces plans to resign, as the company reports increased profits.
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A 13-year-old American schoolboy is hoping to go where few senior US politicians have been before, to North Korea for a meeting with Kim Jong-il.
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An earthquake measuring 6.9 hits Ecuador, about 170km (105 miles) south-east of the capital, Quito, the US Geological Survey says.
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Why nothing short of a civil war may keep US troops in Iraq
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Iraq's top army officer says US pull-out plans are premature, as Washington says troops are on target to end combat operations by the end of the month.
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Ranchers in the US are using cloning to boost the quality and quantity of the meat they produce. Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh went there to follow how the process works - from lab to plate.
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Some of the cattle cloned to boost food production in the US have been created from the cells of dead animals.
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Most Americans say the government's plans for broadband are not a priority, a survey finds, amid fierce debate about the issue.
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American captain Corey Pavin denies saying Tiger Woods is assured of a Ryder Cup wild card and rows with the journalist behind the claims.
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The Russian Air Force and the North American Aerospace Defense Command conduct their first joint air defence exercise - a simulated terrorist hijacking.
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Three US amputee veterans climb Mt Kilimanjaro, enduring tumbles and sores to reach the peak with only one good leg among them.
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World stock markets slide as investors worry about the health of the US economy following a warning from the Federal Reserve.
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The judge who sent US actress Lindsay Lohan to jail recuses herself from the case after complaints from a prosecutor.
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The US says it plans to sell Kuwait its latest Patriot anti-ballistic missile to meet "current and future threats".
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Lebanon's defence minister says he will reject US military aid if it comes with a condition that any weapons are not used against Israel.
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A Massachusetts man is told a pea plant has sprouted in his chest, after being rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung.
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US astronauts begin a second spacewalk to repair vital cooling units on the International Space Station.
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