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Obama tent feast to curry favour with India

First Lady personally supervises menu and guest list in first serious test of entertaining at the Obama White House

Brazil leader attacked over Ahmadinejad visit

Lula da Silva criticised for welcoming 'pariah' Iranian counterpart as Tehran makes most of huge propaganda coup

Chávez defends the ‘bad guys’ of the world

Venezuelan President says Carlos was not terrorist but 'revolutionary fighter' and hails Mugabe and Ahmadinejad as 'brothers'

Horse trading begins over Obama health bill

Senate vote to start full discussion on health reform signals the start of months of bitter debate and controversy

Obama faces a path full of hurdles

Weeks of debate, amendments and voting by the House and Senate are ahead before the reforms can be passed into US law

'$350,000 was a bargain for Jackson glove'

Moonwalk souvenir to go on show in Macau after selling for over 20 times its estimate price to a Hong kong businessman

Backing for Barack Obama's health care reforms

US Senate vote to begin debate on a draft bill with Democrats mustering their supporters to overcome Republican opposition

Michelle looks to garden for banquet menu

The first lady is planning every last detail of the Obamas' first state banquet - down to gifts of honey from her beehive

Sarah Palin: my life with a Down's child

In her memoir, US vice-presidential candidate tells of the problems and the joy of living with her special needs son

Palin: We’re losing – eat some carbs

The US vice-presidential candidate tells how she got a shock when campaign chiefs proposed a new strategy - a nutritionist

Obama hits the Great Wall of China

The president won no offer to revalue the Chinese yuan

Oprah bows out with a Twitter, not a bang

Obama dream fades even for his allies

As supporters feel let down by the president’s lack of progress in Asia and at home, the first family keeps America sweet

Democrats battle to save health reform plan

Senators scramled to obtain a conclusive majority that would allow a draft bill on Obama's health reforms to go forward

Obama finalises Afghan troop surge plan

The president is expected to promise up to 7,000 extra troops from Nato allies to stop this looking like America’s war

Harry Potter’s US cousin is a Greek demigod

A film about a boy who turns out to be the son of the Greek god Poseidon is provoking howls of plagiarism from Potter fans

Armchair army to save rainforest

A conservation group led by Johan Eliasch is launching an appeal to recruit 100,000 green heroes to protect trees in the Amazon

From the archive: New York quivers as racial tension explodes

July 26, 1964: the treatment of a black man arrested at a dance leads to rioting

Quiet American 'planned another Mumbai attack'

Indian investigators are examining whether man may be 'missing link' in Mumbai terror attacks that killed more than 170