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Trans-Atlantic flights delayed

NYC teens arrested in bomb plot

Regulators search for clues to market plunge

Did a single trader mistakenly punch in 'billion' instead of 'million' when making a trade?

Oil rig disaster caused by 'series of failures'

The most detailed account yet of what led to the deadly explosion on a BP oil rig that has left the US' coast exposed to millions of litres of leaking oil.

Nokia slaps Apple with iPad patent complaint

Architects of financial bailout make case for regulatory overhaul

New York bridge reopens after truck dumping - report

The oil slick: a scary birds-eye view

<i>Independent</i> writer David Usborne takes a helicopter ride over the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and is shocked at what he sees.

Man wins $1.4 million playing a video game

Toll climbs: 15 dead in US storms

Watching TV 'makes toddlers less intelligent'

Parents, beware: watching television makes toddlers fatter and stupider at primary school, according to new research.

US marathon disrupted by bomb scare

Thorny issues set to make actress a household name

At 20, actress Imogen Poots has already tackled the issues of incest, one-night stands and sex with older men without missing a beat.

Hollywood at war over TV 'hatchet job' on JFK

Katie Holmes is at the centre of what Hollywood liberals are billing a sinister right-wing plot to destroy JFK's reputation.

'It's like watching yourself bleed to death'

Fisherman and seafaring residents of the Louisiana shoreline despair as a vast oil slick approaches.

Student convicted of hacking Palin emails

Washington wakes up to oil-spill crisis

Questions are sure to be raised about a self-policing system that trusted a commercial oil operator to take care of its own mishap.

Motorola overtaken by iPhone, still posts profit