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Catalogue of terror, torture... and how the US tried to keep it all quiet

<i>Duncan Gillies</i>: Ignore leaks Pentagon has got to be kidding

Clinton lost nuclear launch code card: General

Outsized influence of the rich waiting to deal to Obama in elections

Obama on the Democrat trail

Ads get ugly as US election day draws near

The US mid-term elections are seeing the nastiest TV advertising in some time.

The great American mortgage crisis deepens

After the Subprime Mortgage Mess, the US Foreclosure Fiasco.

Wall St welcomes Fed confirmation of easing

Equities on Wall Street welcomed clarification about Federal Reserve policy makers' plans for further monetary easing to help propel US economic growth.

Deadly traps lie in wait as Nato takes aim at Kandahar Taleban

Many US and British officers warn that corrupt police are turning people against the government and 'acting as Taleban recruiting sergeants.'

Republican 2012 hopefuls start their jockeying for position

Recession still a reality for the poor, says Obama

US president Barack Obama says he doesn't care that the country's recession has been 'offically' declared over.

Optimism returns overnight to world markets

Shares on Wall St and in Europe rose overnight, after the US Federal Reserve indicated economic growth was still happening, though at a slower rate.

Former Lehman boss comes out fighting at crisis inquiry

The former boss of Lehman Brothers has let loose his bitterness at the US government's failure to save his firm in 2008.

Muslim cleric reviled for interfaith efforts

For the first time in a long while, the 'Ground Zero mosque' man is avoiding the press.

<i>Anne Penketh:</i> President careful not to trumpet mission achieved

President Obama is right to play down the US withdrawal from Iraq.

<i>Editorial:</i> Obama right to turn the page on Iraq

President Barack Obama has brought down the curtain on the seven-year conflict in Iraq.