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JPMorgan Chase, the biggest US bank, reveals a surprise trading loss of $2bn (£1.2bn) on complex investments made by its traders.
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United KingdomThe undercover agent who infiltrated al-Qaeda and foiled an "underwear bomb" plot was a British man of Middle Eastern origin, US reports say.
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IranLos Angeles is home to the largest number of Iranians or Persians, outside Iran, and a new reality TV show follows the lives of a wealthy group.
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North KoreaNorth Koreans have more access than before to outside media, especially foreign and South Korean DVDs, says a US study.
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A panel of US health experts recommends formal approval of Truvada, a drug to prevent HIV infection in healthy people.
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US President Barack Obama is praised and condemned over his backing for gay marriage, as his campaign attacks Republican Mitt Romney on the issue.
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Mark Mardell on how US military taught officers about Islam
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The US Department of Justice sues an Arizona sheriff accused of racially profiling Latinos, among other alleged civil rights violations.
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Deutsche Bank is to pay $202m (£125m) to settle charges it defrauded the US government over the resale of risky mortgages.
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The would-be suicide attacker in a foiled "underwear bomb" plot was a Saudi-recruited undercover agent, reports from the US say.
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Amir Khan's rematch with Lamont Peterson on 19 May is called off after the American champion's failed drugs test.
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The parents of Bowe Bergdahl, the only US soldier held by the Taliban, go public on their frustration with the pace of US efforts to have him freed.
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The US trade deficit widened at the fastest rate for 10 months in March following a narrowing in February, official figures show.
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ChinaBlind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who fled house arrest and spent six days in the US embassy, says his family is under intensified pressure from the authorities.
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US forces destroy a target missile in the first successful test of a new Raytheon Co interceptor, designed to play a major role in missile defence.
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Glee actress Amber Riley has revealed she is leaving the hit US show at the end of the current series.
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The Beastie Boys have returned to the US album charts following the death of band member Adam Yauch last week.
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RussiaRussian President Vladimir Putin tells US President Barack Obama that he will not attend the G8 summit in the US later this month.
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ChinaIndustrial and Commercial Bank of China gets the nod to take over a US bank, the first such US approval for a Chinese firm.
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ChinaThe Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says he is waiting for the paperwork to be completed before he can leave the country for the United States.
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Nik Wallenda, an acrobat set to walk a tightrope over Niagara Falls this summer, drew gasps after stumbling during walk 100 feet (30m) above Baltimore's Inner Harbour.
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Barack Obama becomes the first US president to back gay marriage, speaking out on the politically charged issue in a TV interview.
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Barack Obama becomes the first US president to back gay marriage, as he speaks out on the politically charged issue in an interview with ABC News.
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A Texas convict won about 40% of voters in West Virginia's democratic primary, potentially taking a few delegates from President Barack Obama.
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ChinaChinese activist Chen Guangcheng says he is waiting for the authorities to issue his passport, so he can leave to study in the US.
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Residents of North Carolina approve a constitutional ban on gay unions, initial results suggest, making the state the 29th to limit gay marriage rights.
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US internet firm AOL announces it intends to hand to shareholders all the proceeds from its sale of 800 patents to Microsoft.
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US television network NBC commissions a sitcom created by former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett.
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Twitter objects to a US court order ordering it to hand over old messages posted by a Occupy Wall Street protester.
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The 21-year-old singer cancels Snow Patrol support gigs in North America for "personal reasons" but denies reports about enterting rehab.
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MexicoThe US adds two sons of Mexico's most wanted man Joaquin Guzman to its drugs kingpin blacklist, saying they play key roles in his Sinaloa cartel.
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Toyota's profits jump five-fold amid a recovery from last year's natural disasters and a pick up in the US car market.
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Reports from the US say the would-be suicide attacker in a foiled "underwear bomb" plot was in fact a double agent.
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GreeceAsian markets fall, tracking falls in Europe and the US, amid political uncertainty in Greece.
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GreeceEuropean and US shares fall on Tuesday as investors worry about Greece's ability to form a new government.
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Maurice Sendak, the US author of the best-selling children's book Where the Wild Things Are, dies aged 83
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YemenA bomb plot by a Yemen-based al-Qaeda group involving an updated "underwear bomb" was foiled by insider infiltrating a terror cell, US officials say.
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Maurice Sendak, the US author of the best-selling children's book Where the Wild Things Are, dies aged 83.
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Bill Miller abandons his offer to buy Rangers, blaming fan opposition and over-optimistic financial information.
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Failed US Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum announces support for his former rival Mitt Romney, in a late-night email to supporters.
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The US foils a plot by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to detonate an upgraded version of the failed 2009 "underwear bomb", American officials say.
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China, IranChina is buying crude oil from Iran paid for with its own currency, the yuan, despite a US-led boycott of Iran over its nuclear programme.
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Experts in the United States have been analysing a sophisticated new al-Qaeda bomb to see if it could have slipped past airport security.
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IsraelThe Jewish American academic Norman Finkelstein explains how he is often accused of pandering to anti-semites with his controversial views.
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ChinaUS and Chinese defence ministers pledge to co-operate on cybersecurity, despite accusations that China is behind online attacks against the US.
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Mort Lindsey, the orchestra leader and composer celebrated in the US for his work with Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand, dies in California at the age of 89.
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US singer Paul Simon and cellist Yo-Yo Ma are the recipients of this year's Polar Music Prize.
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Driverless cars are set to hit the roads of Nevada as Google is granted the first US autonomous vehicle licence.
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India, 
PakistanUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls on Pakistan to do more to crack down on militancy, at the close of a two-day trip to India.
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Drug firm Abbott Laboratories agrees to pay out $1.6bn (£1bn) after improperly marketing mood-stabilising drug Depakote.
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United KingdomPrince Harry has paid tribute to wounded UK service personnel who took part in a tournament called Warrior Games, during a short trip to the US.
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Aruba, 
ColombiaA man who is accused of leading one of the most influential drug gangs in Colombia hands himself in to US counter-narcotics agents in Aruba.
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A US jury finds Google breached copyright in a case brought by Oracle over Java programming language but cannot agree whether it constitutes "fair use".
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PakistanUS hostage Warren Weinstein, seized in Pakistan in 2011, pleads for his life in a video posted to Islamist sites, a US monitoring group says.
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A US Army nurse who died while on Skype with his wife was not shot, the Army says, after she insisted she saw a bullet hole behind him.
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France, GreeceEuropean shares finish higher on Monday as investor concerns about government austerity plans following weekend election results proved short-lived.
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GuatemalaA murder investigation is under way in the US city of Louisville after the body of a Guatemalan man is found in a barn at the Kentucky Derby racetrack.
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George Lindsey, who found fame as petrol station attendant Goober Pyle on US sitcom the Andy Griffith show, dies at the age of 83.
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IndiaOn a visit to India, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urges the country to buy less oil from Iran, saying other supplies are available.
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YemenAn al-Qaeda leader in Yemen wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the warship USS Cole, Fahd al-Quso, is killed in an air raid, officials say.
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ChinaActivist Chen Guangcheng says he does not know when - or if - he will be allowed to leave China because he has not started the process of getting a passport.
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Rory McIlroy regains his world number one status despite losing a play-off to American Rickie Fowler at Quail Hollow.
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The American scientists who mean business
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The Avengers superhero movie has trounced the record for the biggest ever US opening weekend, taking $200.3m (£123m) at the box office.
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IranUS hikers Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd, who were held in Iran as alleged spies, get married in California.
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BangladeshUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly backs microcredit pioneer Mohammed Yunus, urging Bangladesh not to undermine the Grameen Bank.
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others accused over 9/11 refuse to answer questions as they appear before a military tribunal at Guantanamo.
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US President Barack Obama kicks off his campaign for re-election in November with a rally in Ohio focusing on the economy.
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Rory McIlroy is two shots off the lead after the third round of the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow, North Carolina.
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PakistanNine suspected militants have been killed by a US drone in a volatile tribal region of north-west Pakistan, officials say.
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A UN special rapporteur says he will recommend the US restore tribal lands, including the Black Hills of South Dakota, site of Mount Rushmore.
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The US economy created 115,000 jobs during April, fewer than the previous month and less than analysts had expected, sending stock markets lower.
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ChinaThe US says Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has been offered a fellowship by a US university and it expects China to allow him out soon.
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Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch has died at the age of 47, after a three-year battle with cancer.
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CanadaThe Canadian firm trying to build an oil pipeline from Alberta to the US Gulf Coast has formally proposed a new route, the US state department says.
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ChinaWhy US and China need a deal on dissident Chen
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ChinaChina says prominent dissident Chen Guangcheng can apply to study abroad, potentially showing a way out of the diplomatic crisis with the US.
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ChinaChinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has telephoned a US Congressional hearing to plead for help in his attempts to leave China with his family.
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ChinaChinese dissident Chen Guangcheng telephones a US Congressional hearing to plead for help in his attempts to leave China with his family.
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A child has been caught on camera at a zoo, seemingly oblivious to the desperate efforts of one of its residents to make a meal out of him.
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When a meteor shower streaked across the north California skies 10 days ago, treasure-seekers rushed to California's Gold Country looking for space rocks.
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Former NFL star Junior Seau died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a US coroner says, returning a verdict of suicide on the former San Diego Charger.
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PakistanNewly released papers from Osama Bin Laden's hideout reveal a frustrated al-Qaeda leader struggling to master an unruly network, the US military says.
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ChinaChinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has telephoned a US Congressional hearing to plead for help in his attempts to leave China with his family.
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An in-house thief at the US National Archives is jailed after a radio recording enthusiast saw his own donated Babe Ruth interview for sale on eBay.
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ChinaChinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he has been unable to meet US officials to discuss his desire to leave the country, he tells the BBC.
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United KingdomRBS will say on Friday that, as of next week, it will have repaid all the £163bn of emergency loans it received from UK and US taxpayers, the BBC has learned.
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US car giant General Motors reports a sharp drop in quarterly profits, in part due to its loss-making European operations.
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RussiaRussia warns it is prepared to use force pre-emptively if the US goes ahead with its plans for a missile defence system based in Eastern Europe.
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ChinaChen Guangcheng was not put under pressure to leave the US embassy, its ambassador says, as the activist tells the BBC he wants to leave China.
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Jack White has scored his first number one album in the US with his debut solo record, Blunderbuss.
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ChinaActivist Chen Guangcheng says he wants to leave China hours after leaving his US embassy refuge, as US-China strategic talks get under way.
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ChinaUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told China that it cannot deny the aspirations of its citizens, during a news conference at the start of high-level trade and security talks between the two countries in Beijing.
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ChinaUS Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urges China to change its export-led growth policy and increase domestic consumption.
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Former US senator John Edwards' daughter flees court during evidence about a furious confrontation between her father and mother over his affair.
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A man who was locked in a tiny cell for five days without water and food tells of drinking his own urine to survive, as drug agents apologise.
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ChinaLeading Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he left his refuge in the US embassy in Beijing after Chinese authorities made threats to his family.
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Prosecutors in the US city of Orlando charge 13 over the hazing death of Florida A&M University student Robert Champion, who died on a university bus.
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ChinaChinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he gave up his refuge in the US embassy in Beijing after Chinese authorities made threats to family members.
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ChinaChinese dissident Chen Guangcheng leaves his refuge in the US embassy in Beijing and will stay in China, amid reports his family had been threatened.
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