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Page last updated at 04:59 GMT, Sunday, 22 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
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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Oprah announces end of talk show
Hershey 'mulls $17bn Cadbury bid'
Peru arrests 'human fat killers'
Italian sex scandal woman 'dead'
Honduras leader 'to step aside'
US father 'shot child abuse son'
Kercher murder trial nearing end
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
Jamal Bana Militants' grip
US Somali youths recruited by homeland radicals
Oprah Winfrey Magic moments
Some of Oprah's most memorable shows
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Kabul Coaxing Karzai
Will Clinton's approach to Afghan leader pay off?

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Knox prosecutors seek life term
Chavez hails 'Carlos the Jackal'
US couple admit spying for Cuba
Sears Tower plot leader is jailed
Blackwater guard charges to drop
Childhood abuse 'quickens ageing'
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MARDELL'S AMERICA
Mark Mardell Political analysis and a British perspective on life in the US

Britain: Putting the bite on the States
US report on 'harm' of testing for cancer too young
MATT FREI'S DIARY
Matt Frei Obama's diplomatic dance with America's banker

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SPORT HEADLINES
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