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Page last updated at 00:43 GMT, Saturday, 21 November 2009

Sears Tower, Chicago, United States
Sears Tower plot leader is jailed
The leader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago is sentenced to 13-and-a-half years in prison.
Sears Tower plotter jailed

Police display bottles of human fat in Lima (19 November 2009) Peru arrests 'human fat killers'
Police in Peru arrest members of a gang accused of killing dozens of people to sell their fat for use in cosmetics.

Iraqi security guard looks at car hit in the Nisoor square shootings of September 2007 Blackwater guard charges to drop
US prosecutors ask for charges against one of five Blackwater guards accused of killing up to 17 Iraqi civilians to be dropped.


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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?
Beauty queen In pictures
Celebrations recall ancestral settlement in Belize
Man on street in Sao Paulo Lights out
What's causing big power cuts in Latin America?

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Hurricane Palin rolls into town
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