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'Candid and productive' Obama and Mr Xi meet at the White House

US President Barack Obama welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping with a 21-gun salute as a military band paraded for the leaders and dignitaries

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'Candid and productive' talks as Obama and Jinping meet

US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping have held “candid and productive” talks at the White House. #WATCHLIVE: Barack Obama and

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Shaker Aamer to return to Britain after release from Guantanamo

Shaker Aamer, the last British resident to be held at Guantanamo Bay, is to be returned to the UK after 13 years in the detention camp

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Boehner quits speaker's job and seat in Congress

The US speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican John Boehner, is resigning his position and leaving congress altogether. It is unknown if

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Chinese President Xi Jinping greeted on the South Lawn of the White House

Greetings from the White House. President Barack Obama hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping for his first US state visit. This was the latest stop on

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US growth revised up in second quarter

The US economy expanded more than previously estimated in the second quarter – the second time in a row that has happened. GDP rose at an annual

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Pope Francis takes the UN by storm with hard-hitting appeal to save the environment

Pope Francis’s much-awaited address to the United Nations was a dense philosophical and ethical argument for mankind to face up to the real

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Gary Clark Jr's path to superstardom

Gary Clark Jr is steadily climbing towards superstardom. Now the Grammy award winning singer-songwriter’s latest album ‘Story of Sonny Boy Slim’ is

Cinema

Roland Emmerich gay film controversy

German director Roland Emmerich’s latest offering, ‘Stonewall’, a drama about the birth of the gay rights movement, is courting controversy. Named

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Pope Francis salutes crowds outside US Congress

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Pope Francis prays for the victims of the Hajj tragedy

They turned out in their thousands in the Big Apple to applaud Pope Francis on his first official visit as Pontiff to New York. His presence in the

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Pope Francis begins second leg of US visit in New York

Pope Francis has been welcomed to New York by throngs of people who lined the city’s Fifth Avenue. The pontiff made his way down the famous artery

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VW 'endangers whole diesel car industry'

Many customers are typically shy of buying a used car, not a new one. But now world number one Volkswagen is faced with having to figure out how to

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Pope Francis tackles subjects that divide America in historic speech to Congress

Pope Francis, in the historic first address to the US Congress by the leader of the Roman Catholic church, ranged far and wide covering a number of

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Volkswagen faces uphill battle to repair tarnished image

How far will the fallout from the VW emissions tests scandal stretch? Until this week the words ‘German engineering’ carried connotations of

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Pope pleases the crowd in wide-ranging speech to Congress

Pope Francis has brought the US Congress to its feet in applause in a speech two both houses meeting in joint session. He is the first pope in

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Pope Francis meets President Obama

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Pope raises hot topics during Washington visit

Pope Francis has celebrated his first ever Mass in the United States on a day which saw him refuse to shy away from controversy. Twenty-five thousand

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Pope Francis begins visit to USA with call for environmental action

Pope Francis has been quick to set the tone for his first-ever visit as pontiff to the United States. Greeted at the White House by the Obamas and a

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Pope Francis appeals to America to seize an historic moment

President Barack Obama has welcomed Pope Francis to the White House at the start of his trip to the USA. The pope was given the five-star treatment

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