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Page last updated at 22:33 GMT, Saturday, 21 November 2009

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Senate healthcare vote 'assured' Democrats in the US Senate say they have now secured the votes they need to begin a full debate on healthcare reform. Q&A: US healthcare reform The health system 'headache' Healthcare: Who wants what?

Meredith Kercher Knox prosecutors seek life term
Italian prosecutors seek a life sentence for US student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend over an alleged sexual murder.

Carlos the Jackal, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez Chavez hails 'Carlos the Jackal'
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez defends "Carlos the Jackal" and world leaders he says are wrongly considered "bad guys".

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Oprah Winfrey announces the end of her series on 20 November 2009 Television queen
Is Oprah's talk show move the end of an era?

Beauty queen In pictures
Celebrations recall ancestral settlement in Belize

Man on street in Sao Paulo Lights out
What's causing big power cuts in Latin America?

MORE FROM AMERICAS Peru arrests 'human fat killers'
Italian sex scandal woman 'dead'
Honduras leader 'to step aside'
US father 'shot child abuse son'
Kercher murder trial nearing end
China 'steps up US cyber-spying'
'Five killed' in Pacific island shooting
BUSINESS Ex-smoker wins $300m in damages
Computer glitch hits US flights
Surprise fall in US home building

FEATURES Mexico's 'giant underwater museum'
Hurricane Palin rolls into town
Guantanamo calm as deadline shifts

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US Somali youths recruited by homeland radicals

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Some of Oprah's most memorable shows

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Kabul Coaxing Karzai
Will Clinton's approach to Afghan leader pay off?

OTHER TOP STORIES US couple admit spying for Cuba
Sears Tower plot leader is jailed
Blackwater guard charges to drop
Childhood abuse 'quickens ageing'
Oprah announces end of talk show
Hershey 'mulls $17bn Cadbury bid'
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MARDELL'S AMERICA

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Matt Frei Obama's diplomatic dance with America's banker

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Uruguay take last World Cup spot

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