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Page last updated at 01:23 GMT, Monday, 23 November 2009

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after the vote on 21 November 2009
US healthcare bill clears Senate test
The US Senate narrowly votes to hold a full debate on a landmark bill designed to overhaul America's healthcare system.
Senate head's impassioned plea
Q&A: US healthcare reform
Healthcare: Who wants what?

Nidal Malik Hasan in 2007 (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences) Hearing for US army base 'gunman'
The psychiatrist charged over the Fort Hood army base massacre has his first court hearing - in the hospital where he is recovering.

Michael Jackson's glove on display in New York Jackson glove sells for $350,000
The glove worn by Michael Jackson for his first Moonwalk dance in 1983 sells at auction for $350,000 (£212,000).


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FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Aasif Mandvi at the UK premiere of Today's Special, in London 16 October 2009 Hello Hollywood
South Asian stars find success on US silver screens
Sting with Chief Raoni Sting's plea
Rock star urges Brazil to listen to tribal fears
A Bolivian Quechua indigenous woman chews coca leaves Coca campaign
The role of Bolivia's coca industry in forthcoming poll

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Peru arrests 'human fat killers'
Italian sex scandal woman 'dead'
Honduras leader 'to step aside'
US father 'shot child abuse son'
BUSINESS
Ex-smoker wins $300m in damages
Computer glitch hits US flights
Surprise fall in US home building
FEATURES
Mexico's 'giant underwater museum'
Hurricane Palin rolls into town
Guantanamo calm as deadline shifts

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FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Oprah Winfrey announces the end of her series on 20 November 2009 Television queen
Is Oprah's talk show move the end of an era?
Man on street in Sao Paulo Lights out
What's causing big power cuts in Latin America?
Beauty queen In pictures
Celebrations recall ancestral settlement in Belize

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MATT FREI'S DIARY
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