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Artists hints at Monica Lewinsky scandal in Bill Clinton portrait

03/03/2015

USA

USA: gunned-down homeless man had 'history of mental illness'

The moment a homeless man in Los Angeles was shot dead has been caught on camera. Police say they were responding to reports of a robbery in the Skid

03/03/2015

USA

Obama plays down rift with Israeli PM

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been whipping up support among members of a powerful pro-Israel lobby in America, ahead of his

03/03/2015

USA

Obama, Boehner and Netanyahu - who's playing politics over Iran?

Today’s Congressional address by Israel’s prime minister has divided opinion among his supporters and on Capital HIll. Benjamin Netanyahu’s

03/03/2015

Sport

Fenninger turns up the heat with back-to-back wins in Bansko

On form Anna Fenninger boosted her overall world cup title hopes on Monday. The Austrian claimed her second win in as many days with success in the

02/03/2015

USA

USA: Los Angeles police shoot homeless man dead

Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) have shot and killed a homeless man during a confrontation in the Skid Row area of the city

02/03/2015

Culture news

Documentary photography at the Jeu de Paume in Paris

The Jeu de Paume in Paris presents the first anthological exhibition in France of American photographer Taryn Simon’s work. She uses both pictures

02/03/2015

USA

Netanyahu arrives in US on 'fateful, even historic, mission'

Iran is on the agenda as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in the US for a visit that was not sanctioned by the White House.

02/03/2015

Venezuela

Venezuela to limit the number of US diplomats

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced he will limit the number of US diplomats in the country and establish visa fees in retaliation to 'American meddling' in the nation's affairs.

01/03/2015

Cuba

US and Cuba a step closer to normal diplomatic relations

The United States and Cuba both said good progress was made at the second round of talks aimed at restoring diplomatic relations that were severed 54

28/02/2015

World News

Communist Cuba can't wait to end US embargo squeeze

Young Cubans last December [2014] greeted the leap in relations between their island and the United States with joy. Diplomatic relations were to be

27/02/2015

USA

Watch: Llama drama as daring duo give hapless captors the slip

27/02/2015

Culture news

A Life with Eric and George: Pattie Boyd offers intimate photo show

Better known as “rock’n‘roll’s greatest

27/02/2015

USA

Cuban officials due in Washington for historic visit

A month after a US delegation visited Havana, Cuban officials are due in Washington for an historic visit

27/02/2015

USA

Pearl-studded Oscars dress stolen from West Hollywood hotel

27/02/2015

Cinema

'It Follows': guaranteed chills down your spine

For 19-year-old Jay, life should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds

27/02/2015

USA

Labeled as 'Art/Craft' a stolen Picasso worth millions is found in New York airport

A Picasso painting has been found in Newark airport nearly a decade after it was stolen. The cubist composition entitled ‘La Coiffeuse’ or ‘The

27/02/2015

Liberia

US Ebola mission pulls out of Liberia

The US military mission in Liberia, aimed at halting the spread of the Ebola virus, ended on Wednesday. The exit from the West African nation comes

27/02/2015

USA

USA adopts new measures to govern internet access

Tough new rules on how the internet should be run have been passed by America’s “Federal Communications Commission”

26/02/2015

USA

Bin Laden aide guilty of conspiracy in embassy bombings

A former senior aide of Osama bin Laden has been found guilty of plotting the US embassy bombings by al-Qaeda that killed 224 people in 1998. Khalid

26/02/2015