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Page last updated at 20:47 GMT, Friday, 30 January 2009

Preisdent Barack Obama
Obama calls recession a disaster
President Obama calls the recession a 'continuing disaster' for the US people, as latest figures bring further gloom.
Heading for a depression?
Bill Gates gloomy on recovery
US House passes stimulus bill

Norway flag US and Canadian shares ditched
Norway's state investment fund blacklists "unethical" US arms firm Textron and Canadian miner Barrick Gold.

Doctors who delivered the octuplets Octuplets' mum 'already has six'
A Californian woman who gave birth to octuplets this week already has six children, according to US media reports.


FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
One of Mr Chavez's childhood homes in Sabaneta with a mural of him Local hero
Hometown support for Hugo Chavez's 10 years in power
Smokestacks at a coal-fired power plant Coal challenge
Will Obama follow Maryland towards cleaner power?
Chinese premier Wen Jiabao Blame game
World leaders attack US economic leadership

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S. American skyscraper on hold
US army suicides hit record high
Obama attacks bankers' bonuses
Judge rejects Obama request
Men charged in Russia spy case
Castro welcomed in Moscow
Russia's S7 cancels Boeing order
BUSINESS
US new home sales take a plunge
Mexico's Cemex posts $707m loss
US factory orders still falling
FEATURES
Green job creation challenge
Bolivian battle
Landless in Brazil
Case of Ali al-Marri

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FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
President Barack Obama after talks with Republicans in the House of Representatives House divided
Obama's hopes of bi-partisan support dashed in Congress
Ankle cuffs in an interrogation room at Camp Five, Guantanamo Bay Good cop
Barack Obama's instructions to US interrogators
Sun setting over Lake Budi in southern Chile New horizon?
The Chilean teacher striving for a political first

OBAMA'S FIRST 100 DAYS
Reporters track the changes

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