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Hospital room
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".
VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS
The Coen Brothers
Coen Brothers' 'most personal film yet'
One-minute World News
Guantanamo Bay
Inside Guantanamo Bay prison
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Radio news summary
FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
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
COUNTRY PROFILES
A GUIDE TO THE AMERICAS
Compiled by BBC Monitoring
FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Jamal Bana
Militants' grip
US Somali youths recruited by homeland radicals
Oprah Winfrey
Magic moments
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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Why children writing to Santa at the North Pole won't get a reply
MARDELL'S AMERICA
Mark Mardell
Political analysis and a British perspective on life in the US
Britain: Putting the bite on the States
US report on 'harm' of testing for cancer too young
MATT FREI'S DIARY
Matt Frei
Obama's diplomatic dance with America's banker
Sniper denied victims' families a story
SPORT HEADLINES
Shane Williams
Rugby: Argentina lose to Wales
Uruguay take last World Cup spot
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