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It's been denounced as sleazy and depraved. No wonder 'Skins' is having such an impact across the Atlantic, says Alice-Azania Jarvis
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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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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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5 Jackie Chan and Yo-Yo Ma help welcome China's leader
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7 127 charged after FBI mafia crackdown
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