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We have started to collect the most important news related to United States in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
AustraliaA gift shop at Australia's Parliament House withdraws 200 mugs marking US President Barack Obama's visit because of a spelling glitch.
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US babysitter Ashley Kerekes has become an overnight celebrity and bagged a free trip to the fifth Test in Sydney, all because of her Twitter name - @theashes.
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IndiaSatyam and PricewaterCoopers agree to pay a combined $17.5m in fines to settle a US probe into one of India's biggest corporate scandals.
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A US woman told to pay a huge fine for pirating pop songs has had the damages claim slashed to $54,000.
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US hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam faces up to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of making more than $60m from insider trading.
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The US formally sends to trial five suspected al-Qaeda militants, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of planning the 9/11 terror attacks.
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PakistanA nuclear scientist at the centre of a US-Iran abduction row takes refuge in the Iranian section of Pakistan's US embassy.
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This year's Atlantic hurricane season will be "above normal" but less severe than 2005, the US climate agency says.
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BurmaBurma is accused of "serious abuses" against the ethnic Kachin people in a report by the US campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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A bone fragment believed to part of Adolf Hitler's skull has been revealed as being that of an unidentified woman, US scientists say.
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AfghanistanEight Americans working for the CIA at a base in Afghanistan are killed by a bomber reportedly dressed as an Afghan soldier.
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SomaliaFazul Abdullah Mohammed, a senior al-Qaeda figure suspected of playing a key role in the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa, is killed in Somalia, officials say.
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IraqUS and Iraqi forces release video purporting to show young children taking part in deadly training exercises.
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IraqThe US military says it has killed a senior al-Qaeda figure in an air strike in Iraq, naming him as Abu Osama al-Tunisi.
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IraqUS helicopters kill 17 suspected al-Qaeda-linked gunmen near Baquba north of Baghdad, the US military says.
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MauritaniaA Mauritanian court sentences an alleged member of al-Qaeda's North African branch to death for the 2009 killing of a US man in the capital, Nouakchott.
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CanadaA Canadian accused by the US of supplying weapons to al-Qaeda is freed after a judge in Toronto refuses to extradite him to the US.
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The US says a suspected al-Qaeda member has been captured in East Africa and sent to Guantanamo Bay.
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AfghanistanUS-led coalition forces in Afghanistan say they have arrested two suspected al-Qaeda militants.
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AfghanistanUS-led coalition forces in Afghanistan say they have detained four suspected al-Qaeda militants.
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IraqThe US military says four militants have been killed during operations against the al-Qaeda in Iraq network.
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Afghanistan, PakistanA Pakistani woman scientist accused of links to al-Qaeda appears in a US court charged with trying to kill US soldiers.
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Everyone has been accounted for after an explosion at a US power plant, leaving the death toll at five, officials say.
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A US court convicts a drug dealer of murdering a teenager - a case that inspired the film Alpha Dog starring Justin Timberlake.
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American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh testifies in federal court that restrictions on group prayer for Muslim prisoners are "absurd".
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Afghanistan, PakistanA man thought to be a US citizen is arrested in a tribal area close to the Afghan border, police say.
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A New York City dancer contracts respiratory anthrax, thought to be from raw animal hides on his drums.
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US researchers create a vaccine that prevents rats gaining weight - offering clues about human treatments.
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A man charged with trying to assassinate a US congresswoman in a shooting that left six people dead appears in a federal courtroom in Arizona.
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The trial of Viktor Bout, charged with selling weapons and explosives to anti-American groups, begins in New York.
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Russia, 
ThailandAlleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout arrives in New York, following his extradition from Thailand and a diplomatic row with Russia.
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Russia, ThailandAlleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout appears in a Thai court to fight extradition to the US on terrorism charges.
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Nine Baptist churches in the US state of Alabama are hit in suspected arson attacks, police say.
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US aviation officials suspend an air traffic controller who was unavailable to help two jets land at a busy Washington DC airport.
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ArubaA federal judge in the US suspends the war crimes trial of an Australian prisoner at Guantanamo base.
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BP has been severely criticised in a major report commissioned by President Barack Obama into the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion in the US last year.
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MexicoA major US report blames bad management decisions for the BP oil spill disaster and says it could all happen again without industry reform.
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A six-year-old US boy thought to have been carried away by a helium balloon is found alive at his home in Colorado.
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Colton Harris-Moore, who gained cult status for a string of crimes across the US as a teenager, admits seven charges.
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The BahamasA US teenager dubbed the "Barefoot Bandit" is deported by the Bahamas, where he was captured following a high-speed boat chase.
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The BahamasA US teenager dubbed the "Barefoot Bandit" is deported by the Bahamas, where he was captured following a high-speed boat chase.
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The US president makes a surprise call during a radio show with outgoing Virginia Governor Tim Kaine.
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People who carry a lot of weight around their middle are at increased risk of developing dementia, say US researchers.
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A US airliner en route to Las Vegas was diverted to Denver after a passenger tried to open an exit door, officials say.
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A film-maker who dressed up as Bigfoot sues the state of New Hampshire after park rangers told him he must have a permit to film up a mountain.
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PakistanThe brother of a Pakistani doctor recently sentenced to 33 years in prison for helping US intelligence calls for an appeal of the verdict.
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A message said to be from Osama Bin Laden threatens to kill Americans if the US executes the alleged 9/11 mastermind.
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IsraelAn audio tape said to be by Osama Bin Laden warns President Obama of more attacks if the US continues to back Israel.
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Al-Jazeera airs a tape attributed to al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in which he warns of attacks on the US.
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Al-Jazeera airs a tape attributed to al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in which he warns of attacks on the US.
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A new audio tape said to be from al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden blames global warming on the US and other industrial nations.
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PakistanA taped message purportedly by al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden accuses Barack Obama of fuelling hatred of the US in Pakistan.
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A taped message purportedly by Osama Bin Laden is released, days after the US marked eight years since 9/11.
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The Arizona legislature passes a bill requiring presidential candidates to submit birth certificates in order to get on the state election ballot.
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John Wheeler, the US physicist who coined the term "black hole", dies at the age of 96.
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A fire aboard an airliner coming in to land in Detroit from Amsterdam was a failed bomb attack, US officials say.
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A flight from New York to Las Vegas makes an emergency landing in Texas after the captain began yelling about a bomb, passengers say.
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AfghanistanElite US marines train for possible Afghan posting
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ArgentinaA man who tried to fund an Argentine campaign was offered a bribe to hide the sources, a US court hears.
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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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A US woman faces firearms charges after doctors probing her husband's "headache" find a bullet in his head.
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US scientists have discovered people who can "hear" what they see.
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American musician and artist Don Van Vliet, best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart, has died aged 69.
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A US judge throws out a lawsuit against the administration's alleged programme to capture or kill Americans who join militant groups abroad.
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SudanUS administration chooses middle course on Sudan
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Colombia, 
VenezuelaA suspected Colombian drugs baron has been arrested in Caracas and will be extradited to the US, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says.
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FranceUS President Bush hosts his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, for informal talks at his family home in Maine.
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Hurricane Ike makes landfall in Texas, causing flooding, damaging buildings and cutting power to millions of people.
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Residents in the US state of Texas are urged to evacuate or face "certain death" ahead of Hurricane Ike.
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A father accused of snatching his young daughter on a supervised visit to the US appears in court.
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A plane crashes in the US state of Montana, aviation officials say, killing at least 16 people including children.
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IraqA US military official says insurgents in Iraq used children in a bomb attack, raising fears of new tactics.
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Chin implants are the fastest growing type of cosmetic procedure in the US according to plastic surgeons.
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ChinaHackers in China have compromised personal e-mail accounts of top US officials, military personnel and journalists, Google says.
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ChinaDocuments released by the Wikileaks website have suggested that senior members of the Chinese government co-ordinated cyber attacks on the search engine Google, and recruited a network of hackers to access secret US government and military informatio
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ChinaThe repression of religious freedom in some parts of China has intensified over the past year, a US report says.
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PakistanA Pakistani inquiry into the US raid that killed Osama Bin Laden urges treason charges against a doctor accused of working for the CIA.
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LibyaThe US chief of staff for the mission in Libya insists there have been no reports of civilian casualties caused by allied action.
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A group of US senators says a "cloud of suspicion" still hangs over the release a year ago of the man responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
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ColombiaColombia says it has struck a deal to allow the US to use its military bases, despite concerns in some South American nations.
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Investigators revise the view that anthrax used in attacks in the US was of military grade, a US paper reports.
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The crew of a submarine made 'dozens of errors' before a collision in the Gulf, according to a US Navy report.
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AfghanistanThe US military's top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, warns that the months ahead in Afghanistan will be challenging.
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The US police force outsourcing to civilian detectives
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Congress seeks a successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who will restore faith in the US justice system.
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IraqThe new US ambassador talks of critical months ahead for Iraq, and defends the idea of a wall in central Baghdad.
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US network Fox says it can no longer afford to produce hit animated comedy The Simpsons without a pay cut for its cast.
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A Chicago lottery winner who died before cashing his winner's cheque was murdered, police say, after officials found he was killed by cyanide poisoning.
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The US tests the security of its cyber systems in a week-long simulated attack run by Homeland Security.
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Syria, United KingdomA blog claiming to be written by a gay woman in Syria is revealed to be the work of an American man living in Scotland.
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PakistanA Pakistani man detained over the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl dies weeks after being released.
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IraqTime magazine journalist Jim Frederick describes the sequence of events which led to four US soldiers committing a war atrocity in Iraq in 2006
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Campaigners urge US homosexuals to stay away from work for a day in protest at state bans on gay marriage.
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A man declared legally dead 16 years ago is arrested in the US state of Mississippi over the kidnapping of a girl whose body was found in Louisiana.
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A mother from Colorado who doctors said died while giving birth to her son, says she is glad to be alive.
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AfghanistanAugust has been the deadliest month for US troops in the nearly 10-year war in Afghanistan, according to an unofficial tally.
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PakistanA suspected US missile strike in a remote area of north-west Pakistan has killed 13 people, local security officials say.
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Russia, ThailandAccused Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout pleads not guilty to terrorism charges, a day after he was extradited to the US from Thailand.
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A US judge revokes the stay of deportation for John Demjanjuk, accused of being an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews in a Nazi camp.
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A US man who thought he was dying and confessed to a 1977 killing is charged with murder after recovering, media say.
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