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SyriaRichard Engel, chief foreign correspondent of NBC News, escapes from heavily armed captors during a firefight in Syria after several days in captivity.
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US students in Newtown, Connecticut return to school classes after a mass school shooting on Friday that killed 20 children and six adults.
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Rory McIlroy is named the European Tour golfer of the year after topping the European and United States money lists.
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US private equity firm Cerberus is to sell its stake in Freedom Group, owner of gunmaker Bushmaster, following the Newtown school shootings.
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Award-winning director Martin Scorsese will direct a television documentary about the former president of the US, Bill Clinton.
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Toyota is fined $17.4m - the maximum allowed under US law - for taking too long to report safety issues to authorities.
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The US premiere of Quentin Tarantino's western Django Unchained is called off in the wake of last week's shootings in a Connecticut school.
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US President Barack Obama and key officials discuss responses to the Newtown shootings, as the White House warns US gun law reform is a "complex" issue.
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A US judge rejects Apple's plea to ban sales of Samsung's smartphones that violate patents held by the Californian company.
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As the first funerals are held for the victims of Friday's mass shooting in Connecticut, President Barack Obama meets members of his Cabinet to discuss how America's gun laws might be changed.
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Two senators backed by the US gun lobby call for changes to firearms laws, as the first victims of the Connecticut shootings are laid to rest.
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The US insurance giant American International Group (AIG), sells all of its remaining stake in Asian insurer AIA ending a decades long association.
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The most senior US senator, Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, has died of respiratory problems at the age of 88.
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A US man who admitted hacking into the email accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera and others is jailed for 10 years.
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Two six-year-old schoolboys are buried, the first funerals of victims of Friday's school shooting in the US state of Connecticut.
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South Carolina Representative Tim Scott is chosen to replace Senator Jim DeMint in the US Senate, becoming the first African-American senator in the state's history.
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US mobile phone operator Sprint Nextel agrees to buy the 50% of mobile broadband provider Clearwire that it does not already own.
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Rory McIlroy is confirmed world number one at the end of 2012 after topping both the European and United States money lists.
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Episodes of Family Guy and American Dad are dropped in the wake of Friday's shootings in a US school, while Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino defends film violence.
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The US superstar's touring rakes in most money globally, according to Billboard.
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The Hobbit sets a record for December, earning $84.8m in its opening weekend in the United States.
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Shares in insurer AIA are suspended with US insurance giant AIG set to sell all or most of its remaining stake in the Asian firm.
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President Obama says the US must do more to protect children, at a vigil for the 26 victims of the shootings at a Connecticut elementary school.
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US scientists say they have recorded their best results so far in producing a robotic arm controlled by natural brain activity.
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United KingdomA six-year-old boy who is believed to be British is among the 26 victims of the massacre at a school in Connecticut, US.
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Senior US Democrats call for stricter gun control following the elementary school shootings in Connecticut that left 26 people dead.
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Barclays says US regulators' proposed fines of $470m (£291m) for its alleged manipulation of energy markets are "unjustified" and the allegations will not stand up.
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All 20 children who died in a shooting in Connecticut were aged between six and seven, and appear to have been shot several times, officials say.
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Britain's Amir Khan bounces back from two straight defeats with a stoppage of Carlos Molina in Los Angeles.
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Following the shooting of 27 people the film will not have its premiere as planned.
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US President Barack Obama appeals for "meaningful action" in the wake of a shooting that left 20 young children dead at a Connecticut school.
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In his weekly address, the US President Barack Obama has called for meaningful action to prevent more tragedies after the shooting in Connecticut on Friday.
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A gunman kills 20 children and six adults at a primary school in Connecticut - in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent US history.
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Next year's US Open men's final will be played on a Monday, with the women's final pushed from Saturday to Sunday.
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ColombiaA US court sentences Gen Mauricio Santoyo, who served as President Uribe's chief of security, to 13 years in jail for aiding paramilitaries.
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United KingdomComputer hacker Gary McKinnon, whose extradition to the US was blocked, will not face charges in the UK, bringing to an end a 10-year legal battle
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US consumer prices declined in November due to a sharp drop in petrol costs, according to official figures, the first fall for six months.
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US singer-songwriter Carole King is to be awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
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Canada, United KingdomThe US, UK and Canada refuse to ratify a UN communications treaty after a dispute about references to the internet in the agreement.
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A US Senate committee approves a bill which would outlaw the sale of apps designed for the purpose of stalking.
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The US tries to stop guards assaulting inmates
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Tom Watson will become the oldest man to lead the United States in the Ryder Cup after being named captain for 2014 at Gleneagles.
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UN Ambassador Susan Rice withdraws her name for consideration from the race to succeed Hillary Clinton as US secretary of state, the White House says.
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US House Speaker John Boehner rejects President Barack Obama's demand for more power to raise the US debt limit as part of any "fiscal cliff" deal.
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AfghanistanA US soldier has been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a Nato airbase outside the Afghan city of Kandahar.
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IndiaThe US space agency, Nasa, admits it mistook a mountain in India for Everest when it posted online a picture taken from space.
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The US implements a law to limit the volume of TV adverts to play at the same level as the programme they are accompanying.
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President Vladimir Putin questions why the US Congress passed a bill aimed at barring Russians implicated in an anti-corruption lawyer's death.
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Ariel Winter's father will temporarily be in charge of the star's estate and her sister will have custody of her.
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Belize, 
GuatemalaSoftware tycoon John McAfee, wanted for questioning in Belize over the murder of a neighbour, arrives in the US after being deported by Guatemala.
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Almost one in every three pedestrians crossing the road are using their mobile phone, suggests a US study.
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GuatemalaThe software tycoon John McAfee has arrived in the United States after being deported by Guatemala.
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PeruAn intern for a New Jersey Democratic senator who backs immigration reform is facing deportation to Peru for staying in the US illegally.
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An ex-US beef firm worker sues chef Jamie Oliver, ABC News and a food blogger, saying their use of the term "pink slime" helped get him sacked.
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The Federal Reserve will keep interest rates at near-zero at least until the US jobless rate falls below 6.5% and will continue to buy $85bn (£53bn) a month of assets.
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SyriaForces loyal to the Syrian government have fired "Scud-type missiles" at rebels, media quote US officials as saying.
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How a US city is winning the fight against obesity
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IndiaSitar player Ravi Shankar, who popularised Indian music around the world, dies in hospital in the United States at the age of 92.
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A gunman opens fire at a shopping centre near Portland, Oregon, killing two people before shooting himself in what appears to be a random attack.
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EgyptSouth American champions Corinthians clinch their place in the Club World Cup final with a 1-0 win over Al Ahly of Egypt.
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The US remake of Only Fools and Horses has been shelved, according to industry reports.
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SyriaPresident Obama says the US formally recognises Syria's opposition coalition as the sole "legitimate representative" of the Syrian people.
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Tom Watson is being linked with a return to the US Ryder Cup captaincy for the 2014 competition at Gleneagles.
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CanadaFlower pots mark the border between US and Canada.
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Will US evangelical Christians part ways with Republicans?
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A US court strikes down an Illinois law that bans carrying concealed guns, the last full state ban in the country.
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Michigan, a bastion of the US labour movement, passes a law limiting union power, as thousands protest against the measure outside the statehouse.
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The mysterious US military space plane X-37B launches in Florida for the third unmanned flight in a secretive test programme.
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The US says "dangerous practices" at HSBC allowed the bank to pass money to "drug kingpins and rogue nations", as it fines it $1.9bn (£1.2bn).
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HSBC is to pay US authorities record penalties of $1.9bn (£1.2bn) after failing to prevent money passing to "drug kingpins and rogue nations".
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Random House publishers are to reward employees with a $5,000 (£3,103) bonus partly owing to the success of EL James's erotic trilogy, Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Research into the extinction that killed off the dinosaurs describes nine previously unknown reptile species, one of which has been named after US President Barack Obama.
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El SalvadorEl Salvador should investigate a civil war-era massacre that left some 1,000 people dead and bring those responsible to justice, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights rules.
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The latest James Bond film regains the top spot in the North American box office chart a month after its debut.
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AfghanistanA US Navy Seal killed during a mission to rescue a doctor kidnapped by the Taliban was a member of the famed Seal Team Six, US officials say.
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MexicoUS officials say they will help investigate how a plane carrying Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera crashed, killing her and six others.
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US President Barack Obama addresses Michigan car workers to build support for his plan to raise taxes on the rich and avert a "fiscal cliff".
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Asia will wield more global power than the US and Europe combined by 2030, a forecast from the US intelligence community has found.
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The second winner of a record lottery jackpot - a married man in his 30s from an affluent Arizona suburb - is identified.
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MexicoMexican-American singer Jenni Rivera has died in a plane crash in northern Mexico, her father has confirmed.
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Burma, 
Iran, 
SudanStandard Chartered will pay more than $300m (£187m) to settle charges it violated US sanctions on Iran, Burma, Libya and Sudan.
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MexicoMexican-American singer Jenni Rivera has died in a plane crash in northern Mexico.
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United KingdomUS and UK regulators release a paper explaining how they will make sure bank shareholders, rather than taxpayers, lose out if banks fail.
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IndiaAngry opposition MPs protest in India's parliament after reports that Walmart has been lobbying with the US lawmakers to facilitate its entry into India.
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Retired Pastor Richard Green has spent almost four decades building a modern-day Ark in the countryside of the US state of Maryland. The BBC went along to ask him why.
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AfghanistanA US commando was killed during a mission to rescue an American doctor kidnapped by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, the White House has said.
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AfghanistanA US doctor abducted by the Taliban in east Afghanistan is freed in a joint US and Afghan operation that killed seven captors, officials say.
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Baku in Azerbaijan is to stage the first European Olympics, similar to the Asian or Pan-American Games, in 2015.
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Syria, United KingdomBritish Foreign Secretary William Hague says the UK and the US have seen evidence that Syria is preparing to use chemical weapons.
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QatarThe US faces a dilemma at climate change talks in Qatar, as the final text approves the principle of compensating poorer nations.
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North KoreaSouth Korean rapper Psy, whose song Gangnam Style became an internet sensation, apologises for taking part in anti-US protests several years ago.
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The US president asks Congress to authorise more than $60bn (£37bn) in disaster-relief funding in the wake of "Superstorm Sandy".
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The US Supreme Court is to hear arguments on whether laws banning gay marriage are illegal under the US Constitution, it announces.
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Christine Lagarde urges US leaders to reach a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, warning that the uncertainty is damaging the global economy.
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On the 40th anniversary of the final manned mission to the Moon, Nasa's Apollo 17 mission, a private US company says it intends to fly to the moon by 2020.
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemns this week's violence in Northern Ireland during a visit to Belfast.
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The US adds a surprise 146,000 new jobs in November, cutting the jobless rate to 7.7%, as the economy shrugs off storm Sandy.
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RussiaRussia announces a tit-for-tat visa bar on Americans guilty of human rights violations, over the US Magnitsky Act.
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US regulators threaten the head of Netflix with legal action for posting information about its performance on Facebook rather than official channels.
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Japan, North KoreaThe US moves warships to track a North Korean rocket set to launch this month as Japan orders its military to shoot down debris over its territory.
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