Americas

Most of the cast are first-time actors, replaced each series

Cult British teen drama shocks the Americans

It's been denounced as sleazy and depraved. No wonder 'Skins' is having such an impact across the Atlantic, says Alice-Azania Jarvis

Inside Americas

Crowds line the route in Tucson, Arizona, as congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords passes by in an ambulance

Wellwishers turn out as Giffords leaves hospital

Saturday, 22 January 2011

An ambulance carried Gabrielle Giffords along a route lined with well-wishers holding flags yesterday, taking the congresswoman to a plane that will fly her to a Houston rehabilitation hospital and her next step in recovery.

Video: Flood rescue helicopter crashes in Brazil

Friday, 21 January 2011

A military helicopter helping with the search and rescue of flood victims has crashed in southeastern Brazil.

Video: Pandas granted US extension

Friday, 21 January 2011

China has extended a diplomacy agreement with the US, allowing two pandas to stay longer at Washington National Zoo.

127 charged after FBI mafia crackdown

Friday, 21 January 2011

Among those arrested in New York and New Jersey were union officials and two former police officers.

The US Attorney General Eric Holder announces the arrests yesterday

Gangs of New York crippled by largest mob round-up in history

Friday, 21 January 2011

David Usborne: All the main Mafia families in the eastern United States were reeling yesterday, with more than 100 alleged mobsters taken into custody to face charges ranging from murder to loan sharking.

Ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been living in South Africa for the past six years

Aristide is 'ready' to end exile and return to Haiti

Friday, 21 January 2011

Guy Adams: Deposed former president declares he is ready to end six years of exile and return home 'today, tomorrow, at any time'.

Joy White, centre, birth mother of Carlina White, who was abducted in 1987 when she was 19 days old

Snatched baby finds real mother after 24 years

Friday, 21 January 2011

One of New York's most enduring and baffling cold cases that began with the disappearance of a 19-day-old infant from a Harlem hospital 24 years ago seems finally to have been solved – by the victim herself.

Daniel Pearl was probably killed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Labour of love reveals who killed Daniel Pearl

Friday, 21 January 2011

Andrew Buncombe: Inquiry names man who beheaded US journalist but killer may never be tried.

The official photo: Michelle Obama, President Hu Jintao and President Obama

Jackie Chan and Yo-Yo Ma help welcome China's leader

Friday, 21 January 2011

Alistair Dawber: For Chinese-Americans in Washington, the only party in town on Wednesday night was the state dinner at the White House.

US doctor charged over abortion 'horrors'

Friday, 21 January 2011

A doctor whose abortion clinic was described as a filthy, foul-smelling "house of horrors" has been accused of delivering seven babies alive and then using scissors to kill them.

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