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An account of a frenzied encounter in a shower wins US author David Guterson the annual Bad Sex In Fiction Award.
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IranThe US state department opens a "virtual embassy" for Iran, in a bid to reach out to Iranians interested in visas and other information.
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Two opinion polls in the key US election state of Iowa show Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's surge past Mitt Romney continuing.
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A US coal firm agrees to the biggest compensation package ever awarded for a US mine disaster over a 2010 blast in West Virginia that claimed 29 lives.
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SyriaThe US says its ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, who was removed from the country after threats to his safety, is due to return to Damascus.
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United KingdomUS rockers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are to play their first major UK gig in 20 years next year, it is announced.
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A 23-year-old woman who worked on US TV show Gossip Girl has her hand amputated after walking into a plane's propeller.
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Jason Aldean walks away with six trophies at the American Country Awards, including artist of the year.
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IranThe US says it is concerned at the the loss of a Sentinel unmanned drone near the border with Iran, which Tehran says it shot down.
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Dr George McGavin travels to the USA to find out how the army are battling against food decay.
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Raj Rajaratnam, a former hedge fund founder, arrives at a US federal prison to begin serving the longest-ever sentence for insider trading.
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Belgium, 
IsraelThe White House rejects Republican calls to sack the US ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, over remarks he made about anti-Semitism in Europe.
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The US Postal Service says it is closing more than half its mail-processing centres in a £3bn (£1.9bn) cost-cutting drive expected to result in 28,000 job losses.
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PortugalAn 11-year-old US boy was stunned to get a reply to his message in a bottle from Portugal's Azores Islands - via the more reliable means of email.
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The social network is opening its first software engineering facility away from the US West Coast, and is also reported to have taken over Gowalla.
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IranIran's military claims to have shot down a US drone, as Nato-led forces say it may be a craft that was lost over western Afghanistan last week.
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IsraelIsraeli ministers hit back at concern expressed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that democracy is being eroded in the country.
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CanadaLeaders from Latin America and the Caribbean have approved the creation of a new regional bloc that excludes the United States and Canada.
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US presidential hopeful Herman Cain has said he is suspending his campaign for the Republican nomination.
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CanadaLeaders from 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean approve the creation of a new regional bloc that excludes the United States and Canada.
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US Republican Herman Cain says he is suspending his campaign for the presidential nomination, in the wake of allegations of an extra-marital affair.
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US Republican Herman Cain is expected to announce shortly whether he will continue his beleaguered presidential campaign.
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Fierce winds leave hundreds of thousands without power, close schools and down trees in a once-in-a-decade weather event in western US states.
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Egypt, Israel, 
TurkeyUS Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta calls on Israel to work with Turkey and Egypt to end what he calls its growing isolation in the Middle East.
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AfghanistanGuess what happened when US left Afghan border hotspot?
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IsraelThe Israeli government orders adverts that urge Israelis in the US to return home to be pulled amid outcry from the American Jewish community.
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Global stock markets gain - with the US having its best week in two years - as Europe's leaders call for closer integration and US unemployment drops.
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Canada, 
VenezuelaVenezuela's President Chavez hosts a summit creating a new regional bloc, bringing together 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries without the US or Canada.
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A US House of Representatives committee votes to subpoena the former head of collapsed brokerage firm MF Global, Jon Corzine.
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CubaThe US authorities appeal for the immediate release from a Cuban jail of US contractor Alan Gross, two years to the day after his arrest.
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IraqThe US military hands over control of its former Iraq HQ Camp Victory to the authorities there, as troops prepare to leave by the end of the year.
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The US unemployment rate drops sharply to 8.6% in November, its lowest level in two-and-a-half years, from 9% the month before, figures show.
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BurmaAung San Suu Kyi says she is hopeful that Burma can get on to "the road to democracy", after talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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BahrainBahrain is recruiting a former police chief from the US city of Miami to help reform law enforcement, says the country's interior ministry.
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A US writer takes legal action against the makers of Cowboys and Aliens, claiming he had the idea prior to a comic book series produced in 2006.
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CanadaHonda says it is recalling 313,000 vehicles, mainly in the US and Canada, due to concerns about potentially faulty airbags.
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Film director Martin Scoresese's 3D family tale Hugo is named best film by the National Board of Review in the US.
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IndiaIndia's Ranbaxy wins an approval from authorities to sell its version of the world's best selling drug, Lipitor, in the US.
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IranThe US Senate unanimously approves tougher economic sanctions targeting Iran's central bank, but some fear the measures could backfire.
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BurmaThe US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, will meet the pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, for a second time to discuss the pace of reform in Burma.
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ChinaShares in Yahoo rise on reports that China's Alibaba Group is preparing a takeover bid for the US internet firm.
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Florida A&M University expels four students following a marching band member's death that is thought to be linked to an abusive ritual known as hazing.
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Massachusetts is suing five major banks alleging "illegal" and "deceptive" conduct in the way they seized homes during the financial crisis.
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US President Barack Obama announces $50m of new domestic spending for HIV/Aids treatment, as a report shows that global funding fell in 2010.
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PakistanAl-Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri says they have a 70-year-old US citizen, Warren Weinstein, who was abducted in Lahore, Pakistan.
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The pace of growth in US manufacturing, car sales, and construction accelerates, surveys indicate.
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BurmaUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledges improved ties if Burma continues current reforms, during a landmark visit to the country.
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Australia, United KingdomTobacco firm British American Tobacco begins a legal challenge to stop the Australian government from making plain packaging mandatory for cigarettes.
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NigeriaA US Congressional report says Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram is an "emerging threat" to the US.
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Four men charged over hair-cutting attacks in a US Amish community are to remain in custody. a federal magistrate in Ohio rules.
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United KingdomThe US coffee giant Starbucks plans to expand further in the UK creating 5,000 UK jobs over the next five years.
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Asian markets jump, following a rally in the US and Europe, after a group of central banks move to boost global lending.
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Enduring stigma helps Aids epidemic ravage US South
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Artificial turf is winning over South American football
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Reverend Billy Graham, the US evangelical preacher, has been admitted to a North Carolina hospital for possible pneumonia, his spokesman says.
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US President Barack Obama warns of a "massive blow" to the economy if Republicans oppose his calls to extend a payroll tax cut.
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US police raid Occupy Wall Street camps in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, arresting 200 protesters and tearing up their tent cities.
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Ginger White, who says she and Herman Cain had a 13-year affair, tells US TV the former pizza mogul would not make a good president.
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MexicoUS police find one of the most sophisticated drug-smuggling tunnels to date on the border with Mexico, complete with lighting and transport carts.
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A US judge orders social media sites and search engines to remove firms selling counterfeit goods from their pages.
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Afghanistan, PakistanThe US leads calls for Pakistan to reconsider its boycott of next week's Bonn Conference on Afghanistan's future.
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PeruThe US company Newmont which plans to build a huge open-cast gold mine in northern Peru says it is halting construction after days of protests.
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Amnesty International calls on the US to stop jailing minors for life without parole, and ratify a UN convention on the issue.
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North Korea, 
South KoreaNorth Korea says it is "progressing apace" with the building of a nuclear reactor, in a dramatic snub to the US and South Korea.
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BurmaHillary Clinton begins a ground breaking visit to Burma in the first such trip by an American Secretary of State for 50 years.
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Three US wealth managers who picked up a $254m lottery jackpot deny claims they only collected the cheque for the real winner, a client of theirs.
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A US businessman is released after being held on a Caribbean island since August over the disappearance of a US woman he says was swept away snorkelling.
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Conrad Murray, the US doctor convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson, is sentenced to a maximum prison term of four years.
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Conrad Murray, the US doctor convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of pop legend Michael Jackson, is sentenced to a maximum prison term of four years.
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Facebook agrees to tighten privacy controls as part of a settlement with the US regulator, the Federal Trade Commission.
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American Airlines' parent company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but expects business to continue as normal.
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IraqUS Vice-President Joe Biden arrives in Baghdad to meet Iraqi officials as American troops prepare to leave Iraq by the end of the year.
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ChileChile seeks the extradition of US ex-officer Ray Davis over the death of a US reporter killed after the 1973 coup that brought Gen Pinochet to power.
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A highly decorated US Marine is suing BAE Systems after a manager described him as "mentally unstable" and alleged he had a drink problem.
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IndiaIndia's governing Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi makes her first public speech since undergoing surgery in August in the US.
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Three wealth managers from one of the richest US cities are unveiled as winners of a $254m (£163m) lottery jackpot.
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Lana Peters, the only daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, dies of colon cancer at a care home in the US state of Wisconsin, aged 85.
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RussiaRussia turns on a new incoming missile early warning system in its westernmost region in response to US plans for a missile shield in Europe.
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Asian stock markets continue to rally after strong gains in the US and Europe on Monday, on hopes of a eurozone solution.
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US and EU leaders announce steps towards launching bilateral trade talks, as they wrap up a White House summit addressing the eurozone debt crisis.
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GuyanaThe people of Guyana vote for a new government in an election likely to continue to reflect the South American nation's traditional racial divide.
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Fitch ratings agency revises its outlook on the US from "stable" to "negative" after Congressmen fail to agree deficit cuts.
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The mother of a 16-year-old boy arrested in Ohio over the deaths of three men responding to a Craigslist jobs advert tells US media her son is innocent.
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A US-based radiologist "recreates" a 307-year-old Stradivarius violin in a move that may benefit music students.
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President Barack Obama hosts European Union leaders at a White House summit, amid fears of a new recession in Europe and possible effects on the US.
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A US judge orders a trial after rejecting a $285m settlement between Citigroup and financial regulator SEC over the sale of toxic mortgages.
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One of the most prominent Democrats in the US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, will not seek re-election in 2012.
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Americans bought slightly more new homes in October but prices fell, according to the US Commerce Department.
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Internet sales rise faster than expected over Black Friday in the US according to surveys, and retailers expect an even better Cyber Monday.
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US retail sales in the critical Thanksgiving weekend rose 16% versus a year ago, according to the National Retail Federation.
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Brazil, 
South AfricaThe world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters including the US, India and Brazil hope to delay talks on a new climate deal at a UN summit.
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Why are American teenagers falling out of love with the car?
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Germany, United KingdomMatt Kuchar and Gary Woodland combine for six birdies as the United States win the World Cup by two shots from England and Germany.
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PakistanPakistan orders a review of all co-operation with the US and Nato after the alliance struck an army checkpoint, killing at least 24 people.
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CubaCuba is to begin exploratory drilling in search of oil, but the plans are causing controversy in the US where memories of the BP Gulf oil disaster are still fresh in the mind.
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UN member states reject a US-backed plan for new regulations on cluster bombs which campaigners say would have diluted an international convention.
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The US holiday shopping season gets off to an ugly start with several shootings and two pepper-sprayings as bargain-hunters stampede stores.
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EgyptThree US students arrested in Cairo for allegedly throwing firebombs at policemen will head home within hours, reports say.
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ArubaA judge on the Caribbean island of Aruba orders the release of a man held since August over the vanishing and presumed death of a US woman.
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A man who shot dead a woman, reported to be his ex-partner, in the car park of a Chicago hospital where they both worked is arrested as he flees.
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