Gunman massacres eight Christmas shoppers in Omaha mall rampage
December 6: Deadliest shooting since Virginia Tech bloodbath
· Bush had earlier been in city to raise election funds
British GCHQ eavesdropping played role in US intelligence U-turn on Iran
December 6: Time lag as agencies checked out conversations
· Ahmadinejad basks in 'great victory' of report
Supreme court ponders rights of Guantánamo detainees
December 6: America's highest court yesterday held what is expected to be the pivotal case on the future of the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where more than 300 foreigners accused of being terrorists are detained
Washout Storms hit US north-west
December 6: Storms in the US states of Washington and Oregon have killed at least seven people, flooded homes and washed out roads, including the region's largest highway, Interstate 5, a stretch of which has been closed since Monday
Elizabeth Hardwick
December 6: US writer and wife of poet Robert Lowell, she co-founded the New York Review of Books
Evel Knievel
December 3: Daredevil showman and stunt rider, he epitomised the American huckster
03.12.07: Henry Hyde
29.11.07: Steve Fossett
Florida Democrats lose battle with national party
December 5: Two Florida lawmakers trying to force the national Democratic party to allow their state a role in the presidential nominating process lost their battle on Wednesday.
Supreme court hears case over rights of Guantanámo detainees
December 5: America's highest court today held what is expected to be the pivotal case on the future of Guantanámo Bay, Cuba, where more than 300 foreigners accused of being terrorists are detained.
Defiant Bush says Iran still poses a threat
December 5: Bush insists US foreign policy towards Iran will remain unchanged in spite of an American intelligence report confirming the country had halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003
05.12.07: Iranian president claims US report as a victory
05.12.07, video: Ahmadinejad declares victory
05.12.07: UN must ditch plan for 'illegal' sanctions, declares Tehran
05.12.07: Simon Jenkins: Hostility is no help - the west must hug Tehran close
05.12.07: Letters: More known knowns about Iran
05.12.07: New findings may be due to a defector, sources suggest
04.12.07: Israel challenges US findings on nuclear Iran
04.12.07: US spies give shock verdict on Iran threat
03.12.07 US spies give shock verdict on Iran threat
03.12.07: 'Iran halted nuclear weapons programme in 2003'
Doubts cast over soldier's Iraq accounts
December 5: New Republic magazine retracts a series of articles from a US soldier, saying it could no longer stand by his accounts
05.12.07: Baghdad kidnappers make video ultimatum: leave Iraq in 10 days or we kill British hostage
03.12.07: Iraqi insurgents regrouping, says Sunni resistance leader
Salmond steps in to save Trump's Scottish golf course
December 5: Donald Trump's dream of building the 'world's best golf course' in Scotland resurrected after the Scottish first minister Alex Salmond intervened
04.12.07: Northern Ireland pitches for Trump golf course
29.11.07: Scottish councillors reject golf course
21.11.07: US tycoon gets go-ahead for Scottish golf resort
21.11.07: Water park planned for Arizona desert
She's the most powerful black woman in the world. Why can't I stand the sight of her?
December 5, Candace Allen says the extraordinary career of the US secretary of state fills her with revulsion and anger
A last chance for the great survivor
November 25, profile: Condoleezza Rice remains widely admired despite her intimate involvement in controversial foreign policy
Nobodies no longer
December 5, Bernard Crick: Slavery may be outlawed, but as a group of workers in Florida showed, some battles still need fighting
Vive la dissidence
December 5, Agnès Poirie: The reputed death of French culture in truth marks the demise of US interest in the world
Scare tactics on the border
December 3, Michael Tomasky: Most Americans back citizenship for illegal migrants, but are eclipsed by a fevered minority
New US energy bill meets green lobby approval
December 4: Congressional Democrats finalised an energy bill today that will increase fuel efficiency standards for cars for the first time in decades
Romney seeks to allay suspicion over his Mormon beliefs
December 4: Mitt Romney yesterday moved to dampen suspicion among Republican voters about his Mormon beliefs and recapture his frontrunner status for the party's nomination by announcing he will deliver an address on faith and American society
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Trouble, the £12m dog, lies low to evade kidnappers
December 4: Hotel billionaire Leona Helmsley left £12m in her will to her dog Trouble. Now it seems that was just the start of it
Nazi rocket scientist's secret papers up for sale
December 4: A once top-secret manuscript by Wernher von Braun goes under the hammer in New York
01.12.07: 'What am I bid for the four-poster dog bed?'
29.11.07: God rest your merry credit cards
28.11.07: Big Easy blues echo through history
Arab-American paratrooper faces deportation after Afghan service
December 3: Highly decorated sergeant ordered to stand trial
· Anti-discrimination committee protests
Scrap 'don't ask, don't tell' gay policy, say retired US generals
December 1: Twenty-eight former military chiefs have collectively called for a repeal of the controversial 'don't ask, don't tell' policy whereby gay and lesbian Americans are allowed to serve in the armed forces but only if they keep their sexuality secret
Brad Pitt unveils plans for New Orleans homes
December 4: Actor donates $5m towards adopt-a-house project
· Eco-friendly rebuilding in hurricane-ravaged city
Americans shun Iraq war movies
December 2: Big-budget Hollywood films prove a flop with opponents and supporters of the conflict
01.12.07, leader: In praise of ... Woody Allen
30.11.07: Writers set to turn down latest pay deal
28.11.07: Ted Kennedy takes princely sum for memoirs
27.11.07: Hopes rise for deal to end Broadway strike
Suspects in Kercher killing told they must stay in prison
December 1: Court rules Meredith Kercher's American flatmate and her flatmate's boyfriend should remain in jail while investigations continue into the Leeds University student's murder
11.11.07: Lawyers stop Meredith coffin return
Captured videos revive hopes for hostages
December 1: Tape seized after arrest of Colombia rebels
· Evidence follows end of Chávez mediation effort
30.11.07: Rebel tape shows foreign hostages alive in Colombia
$3.7bn loss brings down one of the top women in Wall Street
December 1: One of Wall Street's most powerful women, Morgan Stanley's co-president Zoe Cruz, has joined a rollcall of senior banking casualties from the credit crunch sweeping through global financial markets
US banks told to freeze home loan repayments
December 1: The White House is close to a deal with US mortgage lenders to ease repayments for thousands of cash-strapped homeowners in an attempt to limit the economic and political damage wreaked by millions of home foreclosures
28.11.07: Recession in the air as US house prices tumble
Cameron seeks to rebuild ties with Bush
November 30: Tory leader emphasises Atlanticist outlook
· Relations were damaged during run-up to Iraq war
29.11.07: Cameron urges action to prevent Balkan crisis
Security firm faces new trouble closer to home
November 30: Rural community opposes expansion by company at centre of Iraq allegations
14.11.07: Official in reversal on brother's Blackwater role
30.11.07, Naomi Klein: The real money is in guns
Bin Laden: Europe must quit Afghanistan
November 29: al-Qaida leader calls on European governments to end their military cooperation with the US in Afghanistan in a new audio message broadcast today
A fateful December for Hill Democrats on Iraq
November 29: Republicans will push for a funding vote with no strings attached; Democrats vow otherwise - but they've caved before
Judge jailed entire court for phone interruption
November 29: Ringing mobile enrages magistrate
· 46 sent to cells in moment of 'inexplicable madness'
28.11.07: Astor's son faces fraud charges
Iran leader dubs summit a failure
November 29: Bush hopes for progress despite press scepticism
· US to monitor parties' compliance to road map
Still waiting for peace
November 29, leader: Serious negotiations do not normally take place at international conferences. They happen before or after them. If negotiations beforehand have been fruitful, a conference is a venue to publicise and formalise what has been agreed
29.11.07, Jonathan Freedland: A small, slender chance for peace in the Middle East
28.11.07 Rhetoric and reality: Bush's battle in the Middle East
28.11.07: 'Peace there won't be, but you look well'
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