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As American voters prepare to head to the polls in the mid-term elections the words 'hope and change' which were so pervasive in 2008 seem to have been replaced by 'anger'.
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Key facts, figures and dates
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Key facts, figures and dates
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Councils in England are to get greater powers to stop "garden-grabbing" by developers, the government says.
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Councils in England are to get greater powers to stop "garden-grabbing" by developers, the government says.
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The UK is lagging behind other high income countries on cutting child mortality and is the worst in Western Europe, international figures show.
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One of Nigeria's most influential and wealthy politicians, James Ibori, is arrested in Dubai on corruption charges.
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The fantastical story of JM Barrie's first celebrity cricket team
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The conservative Tea Party movement in the US blocks a Republican senator from Utah in his re-election bid.
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A deadly blast on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was caused by exploding methane gas, US media reports.
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Lobbying is underway to be Nigeria's new vice-president after Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as president.
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An exclusive look behind the scenes of Promises, the rehab clinic of choice for many of the world's biggest stars.
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Hundreds of bikers travel slowly on the M62 and into Manchester city centre in a protest over record fuel prices.
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Malcolm McLaren, the former manager of the Sex Pistols, is given a flamboyant send-off at his funeral in north London.
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After years of civil war, Algeria is desperate to move on from its violent past and is taking steps to get back on its feet again, Chloe Arnold reports.
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Wall Street bank Citigroup reports a profit of $4.4bn for the first three months of the year, after heavy losses in the previous quarter.
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A new volcanic ash cloud spreading towards the UK creates uncertainty over the reopening of some airspace, Nats says.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company delays its new production of Antony and Cleopatra after the lead actor is "seriously" injured by a prop firearm.
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US chat show host Larry King files for divorce from his seventh wife citing "irreconcilable differences".
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The jailed leader of Peru's Shining Path rebel group threatens a hunger strike if he is refused permission to wed.
