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US facing $100bn bill as army blamed for storm flood
THE US government could be facing a bill running to hundreds of billions of dollars after a federal judge yesterday ruled that failures by the US Army Corps of Engineers were responsible for the worst flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina.
Police tasered girl (10) at mother's suggestion
A POLICE officer in a small US town used a stun gun on a 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission.
Farmer 'made granddaughters stab stranger to death'
A farmer has been accused of forcing three of his young granddaughters to help kidnap and murder a stranger by stabbing and stamping on him.
Epileptic truck driver jailed after death crash
AN EPILEPTIC who mowed down a British couple with his dustbin lorry was jailed for at least 20 years yesterday.
Obama takes a time-out to visit his half-brother in China
PRESIDENT Barack Obama yesterday revealed he took time out from his trip to Asia to meet his half brother who lives in China and who recently wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the father they share.
Obama pledges exit strategy for Afghanistan
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has said for the first time that his review of policy in Afghanistan will contain an exit strategy designed to avoid a "multi-year occupation".
Kidnapper says sorry to teen victim
A religious fanatic begged forgiveness after she pleaded guilty yesterday to kidnapping a 14-year-old Mormon girl from her bedroom in Utah and forcing her to "marry" her husband.
Killer was in lapdance club before shooting
THE US army psychiatrist, a devout Muslim, who shot dead 13 colleagues at Fort Hood, repeatedly visited a lap-dancing club in the days before the massacre.
Sniper takes secrets of killing spree to the grave
HE brought cold terror to the streets of Washington, but in the early hours of yesterday sniper John Allen Muhammad refused to utter any last words as he was executed.
FBI on standby as army base gunman wakes up
The American soldier who killed 13 people at Fort Hood military base awoke from a coma yesterday, as it emerged he had tried to make contact with al-Qa'ida before carrying out the massacre.
Inside Americas
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- Shooting suspect in 'critical but stable condition'
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• Kevin Myers: Armistice Day poppycock threatens our free speech
They started wearing the poppy on the BBC last week, midway through October, nearly a month before Armistice Day. They also ambushed the British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin.
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