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23:05 GMT, Saturday, 7 November 2009
President Barack Obama in Washington on 5 November, 2009
Obama in 11th-hour US health plea
Barack Obama makes a last-minute bid to get approval of his health reforms from the US House of Representatives
Q&A: US healthcare reform
Who wants what?
Obama makes health vote plea
A candle-lit vigil at Fort Hood. Photo: 6 November 2009
Obama praises army base heroism
President Barack Obama praises the "valour" of those who responded to the deadly attacks at a US army base in Texas.
USS New York
US launches 'Twin Towers' warship
The USS New York, a warship built with steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, goes into service.
VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS
Mexico floods
Heavy floods hit Mexico
One-minute World News
Waxwork of Star Trek movie-era William Shatner
Shatner unveils Tussauds double
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FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
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Big headache
What it's really like to get health insurance in the US
A prayer vigil for the victims of the Fort Hood shootings. Photo: 6 November 2009
Hidden anguish
Residents' sense of shock after Fort Hood shootings
Rosita
No strings
The day I fell for a Sesame Street puppet
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Charles tribute to Canada troops
US hits China pipes with tariffs
Found US baby's mother is charged
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BUSINESS
AIG posts second quarterly profit
Fannie Mae asks for another $15bn
China defends export restrictions
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Canada's biker massacre
J Street on Washington map
Mothers at risk in the US
Rio aims for sporting carnival
COUNTRY PROFILES
A GUIDE TO THE AMERICAS
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FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Bird in Amazon rainforest
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People and wildlife on one of Brazil's longest roads
Favela wall, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
World barriers
How the Brazilian city of Rio is walling in its favelas
Danilo Eyzaquirre
Honduras crisis
Supreme Court official's inside view of the political strife
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Electricity blackouts in Ecuador
Jackson's father seeks allowance
Paraguay leader sacks army head
Aretha to perform at Motown gala
US jobless rate rises to over 10%
One dead in Orlando office attack
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Hoaxer impersonating Brazilian president interviewed on radio
Mark Ndesandjo
Obama father 'abusive', says president's half-brother
MARDELL'S AMERICA
Mark Mardell
Political analysis and a British perspective on life in the US
'Senseless tragedy'?
Healthcare plans: a threat to freedom?
MATT FREI'S DIARY
Matt Frei
How the Obama presidency slipped from poetry to prose
Dilemmas of intervention
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Bolt guru Mills ends Jamaica role
Tiger Woods
Woods and Watney share China lead
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