Barack Obama’s presidential agenda is derailed by a shock by-election defeat which threatens his flagship healthcare reform and policy on Afghanistan and climate change... more
Analysis: With so much goodwill behind Obama and more importantly big majorities in Congress, last year it seemed the world was on the brink of real and perhaps lasting change... more
The biggest shake-up in the US health care system in almost 50 years passed its toughest Senate test today with a vote that all but assures its final passage this week... more
The usefulness of Wikipedia could be under threat after researchers found that thousands of contributors had deserted the internet encyclopaedia... more
Let's be clear about Kraft Foods: it is a global, rapacious and ruthless entity. It has zero interest in the well-being of Cadbury, certainly not its staff... more
Edward Kennedy, head of America’s most famous political dynasty ever since the assassination of his two brothers, dies at the age of 77 after suffering a brain tumour... more
Supporters of West Ham and Millwall football clubs fought ferociously last night in an encounter that comes all too soon after London's commitment to bid for the 2018 World Cup... more
The Prime Minister's address to both houses of Congress today is an honour that is not lightly granted. He will not be using it, then, to repeat his familiar message back home, that this recession was made in America. Rather he will make it clear that Britain and Europe want to work with the US, and that this new administration has the advantage of enormous goodwill from both. He will also reinforce the now-familiar theme that the crisis needs a co-ordinated international response - his own new deal, in other words - and that protectionism would compound the problem, not resolve it.... more
More than a million people joined Barack Obama’s inauguration party in scenes that could have come straight out of Hollywood. But behind the razzmatazz America found a profound new hope... more
Senator Edward Kennedy overcame his fight with brain cancer to tell the Democratic Party convention that his brother's dream "lives on" through Barack Obama... more
Jackie Mason has been criticised for his anti-Arab pronouncements yet, at a variety show celebrating Israel's 60th anniversary, he restrained himself.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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