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V - Alien visitors speak with forked tongue
No, we're not talking about President Barack Obama's election campaign, but rather about America's latest sci-fi drama, V, a remake of the Eighties cult classic in which the deceptive alien forces seem to bear more than a…
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Election 2010: Is Balls heading for a Portillo moment?
Mr Calvert, who works as a planning adviser in the private sector, had learnt some fund raising tricks when he was working for the Republican challenger John McCain in the 2008 presidential race – not from the lacklustre… -
Obama and Medvedev sign nuclear deal in Prague
Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev signed the pact at a ceremony in the mediaeval Prague Castle after talks that covered nuclear security, Obama said the agreement had "ended the drift" in relations between Moscow and -
Leading article: An arms treaty and other reasons for East-West hope
Today's meeting between the US President, Barack Obama, and Russia's President, Dmitry Medvedev, to sign a replacement for the Start treaty is the most promising development for many years in what used to be called superpower… -
Underground explosion kills 25 in US coal mine
President Barack Obama opened a previously scheduled White House prayer breakfast by sending condolences to the families of the victims of the accident, which happened late on Monday afternoon at the sprawling Upper Big Branch… -
How politicians should use social media
But if Westminster was slow on the uptake about social networks, the 2008 election of Barack Obama, founded on a campaign with a comprehensive online strategy, should have proved portentous. An Obama supporter in the backwoods… -
The Big Question: Should the United States name China a currency manipulator?
US-China relations have been under a lot of pressure in recent months, ever since a tense and not particularly friendly visit by President Barack Obama to Beijing late last year, when relations between the world's… -
Made in Manhattan: John Oliver on taking satire stateside
Tony Blair and Barack Obama have felt the need to drop by The Daily Show studios on the far western reaches of Manhattan at some point, even at the risk of being made to look like chumps. So it was fascinating to watch the… -
Eugene Allen: White House butler who worked for eight US presidents
That 4 November, Barack Obama was elected. He had been born in strictly segregated Virginia, in the middle of the second term of Woodrow Wilson. He worked as a waiter in whites-only resorts and country clubs, until he heard… -
Banks could face 'excess profits tax'
But it is not believed that the IMF is giving serious consideration to a tax on transactions and is now said to be looking at two central tax recommendations - the excess profits tax and a balance sheet tax that has been…
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Election 2010: Is Balls heading for a Portillo moment?
Mr Calvert, who works as a planning adviser in the private sector, had learnt some fund raising tricks when he was working for the Republican challenger John McCain in the 2008 presidential race – not from the lacklustre… -
Obama and Medvedev sign nuclear deal in Prague
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Underground explosion kills 25 in US coal mine
Sport
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Woods' return could be revealed this week
Yesterday Sean McManus, the president of CBS News and Sport, which broadcasts the Masters, said: "I think the first tournament Tiger Woods plays again, wherever it is, will be the biggest media event, other than the [Barack]… -
Ferguson told to end BBC boycott
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James Lawton: As stricken Togo goalkeeper fights for survival, a symbol…
Arts and Entertainment
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V - Alien visitors speak with forked tongue
No, we're not talking about President Barack Obama's election campaign, but rather about America's latest sci-fi drama, V, a remake of the Eighties cult classic in which the deceptive alien forces seem to bear more than a… -
Made in Manhattan: John Oliver on taking satire stateside
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Tony Judt: 'I am not pessimistic in the very long run'
Opinion
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Leading article: An arms treaty and other reasons for East-West hope
Today's meeting between the US President, Barack Obama, and Russia's President, Dmitry Medvedev, to sign a replacement for the Start treaty is the most promising development for many years in what used to be called superpower… -
Mary Dejevsky: Obama's 21st-century world order
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Johann Hari: Drugs, royals, and the lousy laws being rushed through
Lifestyle
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How politicians should use social media
But if Westminster was slow on the uptake about social networks, the 2008 election of Barack Obama, founded on a campaign with a comprehensive online strategy, should have proved portentous. An Obama supporter in the backwoods… -
New and old diseases straining healthcare in Asia
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White House all-a-Twitter in historic healthcare vote
Travel
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Japan's bullet trains: Coming soon to a station near you
The latest country to express an interest in acquiring Japan's railway know-how is the United States, with President Barack Obama keen to promote a more comprehensive railway system. East Japan Railway unveiled its eye-catching… -
48 Hours In: Havana
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Best for splashing the cash: Moscow
Student
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Postgrad Lives: 'When you get a good result, you're flying for weeks'
I'd also love to go to the States, especially since Barack Obama has lifted the ban on public funding of stem-cell research. How did you come to do this PhD? I'd always wanted to do research, but didn't get the grades I… -
Journalist or campaigner? You can be both with City's new postgraduate degree
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Interview: MP David Lammy's trailblazing education in law
Environment
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Climate: the long and winding road after Copenhagen
He also left open the possibility that the United States would continue the Major Economies Forum, a grouping of the world's top carbon polluters first brought together by George Bush and continued by Barack Obama. -
Giant, leaping Asian carp threaten US Great Lakes
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2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer