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A letter with a Memphis postmark sent to US Republican senator Roger Wicker tests positive for the poison ricin, the Senate majority leader says.
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American Airlines grounds all flights across the US for several hours due to a fault with its computerised reservation system.
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US President Barack Obama says the Boston marathon bombings were a "terrorist act" but that the motive and culprits are not yet known.
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US President Obama has described the Boston bombings as "an act of terror" and vowed to find "whoever harmed our citizens".
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United KingdomThe European Court of Human Rights rules a terrorism suspect should not be extradited from the UK to the US due to his mental health problems.
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United KingdomSecurity for Sunday's London Marathon will be reviewed after the fatal blasts at Boston's race, but the event will go ahead, officials insist.
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Asian markets decline in early trading after two explosions at the Boston Marathon in the US killed three people and injured dozens more.
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North KoreaUS President Barack Obama will meet South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Washington in May amid high tension on the peninsula.
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ChinaGold falls to its lowest level in two years, as wider commodity prices and US shares also decline following disappointing Chinese economic data.
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The US Supreme Court hears arguments questioning whether the human genome can be claimed as intellectual property.
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Researchers at the American Physical Society meeting report three tentative clues in the long-running hunt for dark matter.
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A kidney "grown" in the laboratory has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine, US scientists say.
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Pope Francis approves a report accusing the leadership of the largest group of US nuns of "radical feminism" and failing to obey church teaching.
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United KingdomTranscripts of interviews carried out with an IRA woman can now be handed over to the police in Northern Ireland following a US Supreme Court decision.
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US satellite television company Dish Network makes a $25.5bn bid for mobile phone firm Sprint Nextel, which has already received an offer from Softbank.
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Baseball biopic 42 hits a home run at the US Box office earning $27.3m (£17.8m) in its opening weekend.
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IndiaThe American schoolboy bringing bikes to India's poorest children
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ArubaAdam Scott collects the first major of his career after beating Angel Cabrera at the second play-off hole at the Masters.
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A kidney "grown" in the laboratory has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine, US scientists say.
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US comedian and actor Jonathan Winters - best known for his role in 80s sitcom Mork and Mindy - dies in California aged 87.
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Japan, North KoreaUS Secretary of State John Kerry, visiting Japan, calls on North Korea to engage in "responsible dialogue" to end rising regional tensions.
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China, North KoreaUS Secretary of State John Kerry says China is "very serious" about a pledge to help resolve tensions over North Korea's nuclear programme.
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China, North KoreaChina and the US will work together to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear programme, the US secretary of state and China's top diplomat say.
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The mother of a victim of last year's Sandy Hook shootings replaces Barack Obama to deliver the weekly US presidential radio address.
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China, North KoreaUS Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in China, where he says he will urge Beijing to use its influence to dissuade North Korea from its nuclear ambitions.
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RussiaMoscow issues a list of 18 US officials barred from Russia, as it denounces as blackmail a similar list published by the US Treasury on Friday.
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ArubaDowning Street release the names of more guests who will attend Lady Thatcher's funeral, including US politician Newt Gingrich and former Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
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A new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario will be built despite opposition from the owner of a span already linking the cities, officials say.
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North KoreaThe US Secretary of State John Kerry has described hostile rhetoric from North Korea as "unacceptable."
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ChileThe family of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda agrees to send his remains to a laboratory in the US for toxicology tests.
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United KingdomRoyal Bank of Scotland loses in the latest round of a potentially expensive court battle against a US financial firm.
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RussiaThe US publishes a blacklist of 18 Russian officials suspected of human rights abuses, against the wishes of Moscow.
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US President Barack Obama made $608,611 in 2012, down more than 20% from the year before as sales of his books slow, his tax returns show.
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South KoreaUS Secretary of State John Kerry, who is visiting Seoul, says it would be a "huge mistake" for North Korea to launch another missile.
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AzerbaijanThe US government criticises Azerbaijan for acting against a Western-funded pro-democracy project called the Free Thought University.
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FranceMasks from a native American tribe fetch record prices at a Paris auction, after a legal challenge to stop the sale fails.
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The death toll in a storm that brought snow, hail, and rain to a swathe of the US rises to three, with several more injured in a possible tornado.
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JP Morgan's first quarter profits rise by a third to a record $6.5bn and the bank says there are signs the US economy is "healthy and getting stronger".
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US retail sales fell in March across all sectors, official figures show, suggesting that recent tax rises are starting to affect consumers.
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MalawiMalawi's President Joyce Banda was "incandescent with anger" after her office labelled US singer Madonna a bully, the BBC is told.
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FranceA native American tribe and its supporters, including actor Robert Redford, hope a Paris judge will stop an auction of sacred masks, which they say would be a "sacrilege".
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China, North KoreaThe US urges China to help rein in North Korea, hours after a leaked US report said Pyongyang was able to launch nuclear-armed missiles.
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North Korea, South KoreaThe American Secretary of State is in the South Korean capital Seoul, for talks about the nuclear crisis, amid US reports that the North may be able to launch a nuclear weapon.
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A huge tornado has swept across the US state of Mississippi, destroying homes and causing power cuts.
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United KingdomHow US homebrewing sparked a British beer resurgence
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North KoreaA priest and US Army chaplain who saved the lives of fellow soldiers before perishing in a North Korean prison camp receives the Medal of Honor.
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The US Senate opens debate on a bill to expand criminal background checks on gun buyers, amid fierce opposition from the powerful gun rights lobby.
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US authorities file criminal and civil charges against a former senior partner at accountancy firm KPMG over alleged insider trading.
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MalawiMalawi has accused US singer Madonna of "bullying state officials" after she reportedly complained about her treatment on a visit to the country
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MalawiMalawi accuses US singer Madonna of "bullying state officials" after she reportedly complained about her treatment on a visit to the country.
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A breakthrough agreement has been brokered in the US by two influential senators proposing the expansion of background checks for gun buyers.
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GeorgiaA hostage drama involving four firefighters in the US state of Georgia ends with police storming a house and killing the gunman.
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators rally across the US in a mass call for citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants.
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Police shoot dead a gunman holding four firefighters hostage in a house near the US city of Atlanta, and the firefighters suffer only minor injuries.
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A new documentary has arrived in American cinemas, which chronicles the longest uninterrupted underground survival in recorded human history.
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Researchers reporting at the American Chemical Society meeting say they have found high levels of lead in samples of rice imported to the US.
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A man who lived as a hermit in the Maine woods for nearly three decades committed more than 1,000 burglaries for food and supplies, police say.
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Two US senators have brokered a bipartisan deal to expand background checks on gun buyers, boosting White House hopes for a firearms control law.
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US First Lady Michelle Obama has made an emotional appeal for action on gun control, in a speech to community leaders in Chicago.
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US President Barack Obama unveils a $3.77tn (£2.4tn) budget that proposes fresh taxes on the wealthy along with cuts to benefit programmes.
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Honduras, 
MexicoThe US Treasury freezes the assets of an alleged Honduran drug lord accused of smuggling cocaine to Mexico's powerful cartels.
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The minutes of March's meeting of US Fed policymakers show some think its bond buying programme could be slowed down later this year.
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US carmaker General Motors says it will invest 4bn euros in its European marques, Opel and Vauxhall.
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A student who told police he had fantasised for years about stabbing people to death has been charged with knifing 14 people at a Texas college.
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A six-year-old boy in the US has died after apparently being shot by his four-year-old playmate in what is thought to be a tragic accident.
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LuxembourgLuxembourg, under growing pressure from both Europe and the United States to tackle tax evasion, is to relax the secrecy surrounding its banks from 2015.
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New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art receives a $1bn (£650m) donation of Cubist art from cosmetics executive Leonard Lauder.
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CubaA US couple accused of kidnapping their two sons from their grandparents and fleeing to Cuba by boat are transferred to a Florida jail.
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Thousands of visitors head to the US capital to enjoy the start of spring with the Cherry Blossom Festival.
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IranA 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits Iran's Bushehr province, killing at least 37 people but leaving a nearby nuclear power plant unaffected, officials say.
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What can science tell us about our tipples?
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US exhibition looks beyond Hispanic stereotypes
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CubaCuban authorities say they will turn over a US couple accused of kidnapping their two sons from their grandparents and fleeing to Cuba by boat.
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Australia, China, JapanThe Australian dollar becomes the third currency, along with the US dollar and the Japanese yen, that can be converted directly into and out of the Chinese yuan.
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The US Senate is set to hold a crunch vote on Thursday on whether to debate a gun control law, as a conservative blockade of the bill begins to splinter.
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A Catholic nun pleads guilty to stealing $130,000 (£85,000) from rural churches in the state of New York to fuel a gambling addiction, police say.
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The US Air Force begins grounding about a third of its combat squadrons in response to automatic deep budget cuts that began in March.
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A lifelike robot that replicates the actions of humans is helping test future clothing for the US military.
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GermanyUS Treasury Secretary Jack Lew urges countries with the "capacity" to do more to boost consumer demand, following talks with Germany's finance minister.
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The US Navy says it plans to install a laser weapon on one of its ships, which can shoot down small aircraft such as drones.
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Roger Ebert, the celebrated US film critic and writer, who died of cancer last week, is laid to rest in his native Chicago.
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SomaliaPresident Barack Obama clears the way for the US to give military assistance to Somalia, saying it would "promote world peace".
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ArubaAustralian surfwear firm Billabong is to start talks over a possible takeover by a consortium led by its former US boss Paul Naude.
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IraqTen years ago American tanks entered the Iraqi capital and pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein.
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United KingdomDuring the 1980s, the special relationship between Britain and America was elevated to heights.
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An impassioned President Barack Obama urges US lawmakers to vote on gun control legislation that appears to be stalling in Congress.
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US budget cuts are threatening to hold up a terrorism trial for Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law, a New York court hears.
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SyriaAn American accused of fighting alongside hardline Islamists against Syrian government forces could be executed, US prosecutors say.
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Former US federal prosecutor Mary Jo White confirmed by Senate to head the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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North Carolina officials recover the bodies of two young cousins buried under a construction site when a wall of dirt collapsed on top of them.
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The website Wikileaks publishes more than 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence reports from the 1970s, including first impressions of eventual British PM Margaret Thatcher.
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Horror remake Evil Dead triumphs at the US box office earning $26m (£17m) in its opening weekend.
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JapanThe Japanese yen drops to its lowest level since 2008 against the US dollar after the central bank begins the latest round of its economic stimulus programme.
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CubaA visit to Cuba by US pop singer Beyonce and her rap star husband Jay-Z is coming under scrutiny in connection with the US economic embargo.
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Scientists reporting at a chemistry meeting in the US describe a method to replace up to half the fat of chocolate with any liquid.
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Why getting fake ID is a rite of passage for young Americans
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The US hotel gaining social media friends through dinosaurs
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Israel, Syria, 
TurkeyUS Secretary of State John Kerry discusses Iran and ties with Israel on a visit to Turkey, before talks in the West Bank on Middle East peace.
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JapanA boat thought to have been swept out to sea during the 2011 Japanese tsunami has washed up on a beach in Oregon - with an unexpected passenger.
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CubaA visit to Cuba by US pop singer Beyonce and her rap star husband Jay-Z is coming under scrutiny in connection with the US economic embargo.
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