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US GDP figures for the first three months of the year are expected to show growth has slowed down.
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Tornadoes and storms in the south-eastern United States have killed at least 280 people, officials say.
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Actress Katie Holmes settles a legal claim with a US celebrity magazine over an article that falsely suggested she was a drug addict.
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IndiaUS Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer announces his resignation for personal and family reasons, the US Embassy in Delhi says.
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Tornadoes and storms that have been battering the southern US killed at least 128 people on Wednesday in Alabama alone, state officials say.
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US cities look to immigrants to stoke new growth
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CubaOrlando Bosch, a prominent Cuban anti-Castro militant, has died in the American city of Miami at the age of 84.
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The Federal Reserve cuts its economic growth forecast for this year, citing weaker growth than expected in the first three months of the year.
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US coffee giant Starbucks announces a sharp jump in profits for the first three months of the year but warns of rising costs.
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The White House releases President Barack Obama's birth certificate, in response to persistent rumours he was not born in the US.
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Argentina, 
ColombiaA Colombian man accused of having devised the strategy of using submarines to smuggle drugs from Colombia to the United States is arrested in Argentina.
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The White House releases President Barack Obama's birth certificate, in response to persistent rumours he was not born in the US.
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AfghanistanGen David Petraeus, commander of forces in Afghanistan, will be nominated as CIA chief when its current head moves to the Pentagon, officials say.
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SwitzerlandUS healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson agrees to buy Swiss medical devices company Synthes in a deal worth $21bn.
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An anonymous US-based donor gives a multi-million dollar Picasso painting to the University of Sydney, stipulating that the proceeds of its sale must fund scientific research.
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Guatemala, 
Mexico, 
PeruGuatemalan police detain Waldemar Lorenzana Lima, wanted by the US for his alleged ties to Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel.
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US folk and blues singer Phoebe Snow dies at the age of 58 following complications from a stroke she suffered last year.
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American photographer Jim Goldberg wins the Deutsche Borse photography prize for his exhibition about refugees making new lives in Europe.
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ChinaA delegation from the US is to hold talks in Beijing with Chinese representatives on human rights amid what activists say is an extensive crackdown.
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ChinaChina and the US set for human rights dialogue
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A US federal court orders a new sentencing hearing for a black activist and journalist on death row for the 1981 killing of a white policeman.
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A 65-year-old US man is held on suspicion of leaving a pipe bomb and two propane tanks at a shopping centre in a suburb of Denver in Colorado.
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United KingdomSheree Troy and Darla Herburger explain to the BBC's Daniela Relph why they have travelled to London from the United States to watch the royal wedding.
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US house prices fall for the eighth month in a row and are nearing the lows reached during the 2009 recession, data shows.
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Seven people are killed in Arkansas and major flooding threatens a Missouri town as storms and tornadoes hit a swathe of the central US.
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India, 
PakistanFour Pakistani men are charged by US prosecutors in connection with the November 2008 attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay).
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PakistanUS authorities described Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency as a "terrorist" organisation, according to a leaked US document released by the Wikileaks website.
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SyriaThe US warns its citizens to leave Syria and orders a partial evacuation of its Damascus embassy after troops fire on anti-government protesters.
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SyriaEuropean countries have called for "strong measures" to halt repression in Syria, as the violence continues.
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IrelandWhy are US presidents so keen to be Irish?
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China, MexicoMexican police rescue 51 people, among them Central American and Chinese immigrants, kidnapped in the north-east of the country.
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North KoreaEx-US President Jimmy Carter arrives in North Korea as part of the group of elder statesmen to discuss nuclear weapons and human rights.
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ChinaChina and the US will hold talks next month as the two countries work towards reaching a common ground on currency policy.
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Scarce water supplies in the western US will probably dwindle further as a result of climate change, a US government report says.
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A federal judge in the US grants National Football League players a preliminary injunction to end a "lockout" imposed by team owners.
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The prices of gold and silver have hit new record highs, driven up by a weaker US dollar and continuing tensions in the Middle East.
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SyriaThe US is weighing "targeted" sanctions against Syria in response to the army's intensifying crackdown on popular protests, the White House says.
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Animated bird comedy Rio beats Tyler Perry's new film and a circus romance starring Robert Pattinson to stay top of the North American box office.
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Files obtained by the website Wikileaks reveal the US believed many held at Guantanamo Bay were innocent or only low-level operatives.
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North KoreaFormer global leaders, including ex-US President Jimmy Carter, are visiting North Korea to discuss food shortages and nuclear weapons
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US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, shot in the head in January, is declared fit enough to attend her husband's space shuttle launch on Friday.
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ChileTwo tourists are rescued from a Chilean mountain after they managed to send a message to a US emergency centre, which then alerted local authorities.
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The US airport of Lambert-St Louis is reopening after a tornado tore off a large section of the terminal's roof.
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PakistanThousands of people in north-west Pakistan have begun a two-day protest against US drone attacks.
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Small lasers capable of igniting a fuel/air mixture more efficiently, resulting in less pollution, are demonstrated at a conference in the United States.
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A New York taxi driver picks up the fare of a lifetime - $5,000 (£3,000) to drive two friends across the US to California.
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LibyaFor nearly two months, the Libyan city of Misrata has been under siege from the forces of Colonel Gaddafi.
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LibyaThe US military confirms the first strike by an unmanned Predator drone aircraft in Libya, which destroyed a rocket launcher near Misrata.
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Iran, SyriaSyria used "outrageous" force against protesters in Friday's crackdown in which scores of people are reported to have died, US President Barack Obama says.
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ChileTwo tourists in trouble on an Andean volcano send a message to a US emergency centre, kick-starting an attempt to rescue them.
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Flawed training and equipment on Transocean's Deepwater Horizon oil rig contributed to last year's disaster, the US Coast Guard finds.
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HaitiUS officials express concern about Haiti election results, after last-minute gains for the governing Unity party, with the president-elect also uneasy.
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IraqIraq must decide within weeks whether it wants US troops to remain in the country beyond the end of 2011, the top US military officer says.
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LibyaThe war in Libya is moving towards stalemate, warns the head of the US military, even though air strikes have destroyed 30-40% of Libya's ground forces.
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AfghanistanA surge of American troops has recaptured many of the lost areas in a key strategic area of Afghanistan.
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PakistanUnderstanding the deep military rift between the US and Pakistan
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LibyaLibyan rebels in the eastern stronghold of Benghazi are visited by the veteran US Senator John McCain.
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LibyaThe US is deploying armed Predator drones to Libya, but Col Gaddafi's government says these will cause more civilian casualties.
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United KingdomA toddler who fell from the third floor of a Florida hotel escapes injury after being caught by a tourist.
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LibyaThe US has confirmed it is flying unmanned armed drone aircraft over Libya as part of the Nato mission to assist the rebels.
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A Republican senator from Nevada resigns amid a probe into an affair with a campaign aide whom his parents paid $96,000.
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United KingdomThe Prince of Wales will travel in a personal friend's private plane to the US for an official visit to save money, his spokesman has said.
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The defence has given its closing arguments in the US trial of a billionaire hedge fund boss accused of insider trading.
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Denmark, 
SomaliaA US grand jury indicts a Somali man accused of negotiating ransom on behalf of a band of pirates who captured a Danish cargo vessel.
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US regulators fine a former Amaranth trader $30m (£18.2m) for manipulating the natural gas market.
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Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)US bank Morgan Stanley reports a 48% drop in profits in the first quarter of this year - much less than had been feared.
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BP has agreed to provide $1bn (£600m) to repair damage to the US Gulf Coast resulting from last year's oil spill.
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The US fires two air traffic controllers for sleeping on the job and tightens supervision of flights carrying the first lady after a series of lapses.
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Profits surge at US conglomerate General Electric, adding to the wave of corporations whose profits have exceeded expectations.
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Comedy writer Sol Saks, who created the 1960s US sitcom Bewitched, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 100.
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A US government agency files a multi-million dollar lawsuit in what it calls the largest human trafficking case in the US farming industry.
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ArubaThe Australian dollar rises to a record high against the US dollar as producer prices came in better than expected.
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Afghanistan, PakistanThe US military's top officer, Adm Mike Mullen, accuses Pakistan's spy agency of having links with militants targeting US troops in Afghanistan.
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Libya, United KingdomAn award-winning British journalist and a US photographer are killed covering the conflict in the Libyan city of Misrata.
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Firefighters in the US state of Texas are battling to contain wildfires which have burnt across more than one million acres in the past fortnight.
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A billionaire took advantage of friends and family to illegally make millions, prosecutors say, in the summing up of a major US insider dealing trial.
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US President Barack Obama visited Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters for a town hall meeting, streamed live on the social networking site.
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Stock markets in the US and Europe see big gains following a raft of strong corporate earnings reports.
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Airlines will soon be forced to raise compensation for passengers who are bumped from flights, and to show fees up front under new US government rules.
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Handwritten lyrics by John Lennon and the Chitty Bang Bang car are amongst items being auctioned in the US.
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MexicoA year since the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, local communities are trying to rebuild their lives.
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Severe thunderstorms in the US have caused tornadoes across the states of Missouri and Illinois.
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Firefighters in the US state of Texas battle wildfires which have destroyed more than one million acres in the past two weeks.
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US soldier Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking government documents published by Wikileaks, is to be moved to a prison in Kansas.
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Toyota Motors has announced plans to extend its production cuts in North America due to shortfall in supply of parts.
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Actors from the cast of US sitcom Happy Days sue CBS Studios for more than $10m (£6.1m) in damages, claiming they have been denied profits from merchandise.
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The US soldier accused of leaking secret government documents published by the Wikileaks website is being moved to a military prison in Kansas.
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A plane carrying US First Lady Michelle Obama was forced to abort an attempt to land near Washington after getting too close to another plane.
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The former head of the company that was once one of the largest mortgage lenders in the US is convicted of a $2.9bn (£1.78bn) fraud scheme.
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Three young children in the US state of Texas have been injured after a gun brought to school by a six-year-old boy went off accidentally.
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Three young children in the US state of Texas are injured after a gun a six-year-old boy brought to school accidentally discharged.
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A plane carrying US First Lady Michelle Obama is forced to abort a planned landing near Washington after an apparent air traffic control error.
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A woman in the US has become engaged to her boyfriend after he proposed via the crossword puzzle of a national newspaper.
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United KingdomProsecutors in the US say they intend to charge a 16-year-old boy with the murders of two British tourists who were shot dead in Florida.
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US President Barack Obama says he believes Democrats and Republicans can come together to reach a deal on the federal budget deficit.
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The governor of Arizona vetoes a bill requiring presidential candidates to prove US citizenship to get on the state's election ballot.
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Demand for luxury goods at LVMH rise 17% in first few months of 2011 as Europe and the US continue to recover
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IndiaIndian-American doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee's acclaimed book on the history of cancer is awarded the Pulitzer prize in a non-fiction category.
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US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama report making $1.8m (£1.11m) last year, mostly through sales of the president's books.
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The US space agency awards funds to the companies it thinks may be closest to offering commercially run systems to carry American astronauts into space.
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