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Dow Jones plunges 300 points after Barack Obama re-election as Wall St suffers worst day of the year
New York stocks on Wednesday night took fright at the outcome of the American presidential election as the world braced itself for prolonged and...
Guatemala earthquake: up to 15 people killed and dozens missing
Dozens of people are missing and up to 15 killed in Guatemala after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit off the Pacific coast, President Otto Perez...
2012 Mitt Romney concession speech in full
Mitt Romney thanked family and campaigners for support in his concession speech after admitting defeat in 2012 US election. Congratulating Barack Obama on his win,...
2012 Barack Obama acceptance speech in full
Barack Obama announced that the “best is yet to come” during a moving acceptance speech as the news came that he had been re-elected...
Melcom department store collapses in Accra with dozens of people trapped inside
Melcom department store has collapsed in Ghana's capital, Accra, with dozens of people believed to be trapped inside. Rescue efforts are under way, with officials...
Nor’easter threatens to hit East Coast with 60 mph winds and snow on Wednesday
As relief efforts continue for the thousands of Northeasterners impacted by Superstorm Sandy, a new storm on Wednesday threatens to bring chilly temperatures and...
Empire State Building bathed in blue light to mark Barack Obama’s victory
The Empire State Building was bathed in blue light on Election Night as Barack Obama won a second term in office. Two columns of light,...
Donald Trump calls for a revolution after disgusting injustice, sham and travesty of Barack Obama’s re-election
Moments after Barack Obama’s victory was projected by several news outlets last night, Donald Trump took to Twitter to voice his outrage, demanding a...
Nelson Mandela banknote goes into circulation in South Africa
The first banknotes featuring the face of former President Nelson Mandela have gone into circulation in South Africa. They are the first South African notes...
Diane Sawyer drunk during ABC News election coverage
Diane Sawyer's Election Night performance left some viewers asking if she had begun celebrating Tuesday's election a bit early. Co-anchoring ABC News' coverage, the veteran...
Barack Obama Twitter: Four more years
Barack Obama won re-election to the White House tonight with a landslide victory over Mitt Romney, according to projections from most of the television...
Barack Obama re-elected as US president
Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican rival Mitt Romney. With results in from most states, Barack Obama has secured the...
2012 Election Results So Far
2012 Election: voting results so far Alabama (9 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 61% (1,245,221 votes) Barack Obama 38% (787,027 votes) Alaska (3 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 55% (120,329...
Pennsylvania voting machine turns vote for Barack Obama into one for Mitt Romney
An electronic voting machine in Pennsylvania has been removed from service after it changed votes for Barack Obama into those for Mitt Romney. An 18-second...
2012 election results so far: Who is winning presidential race?
The final voting precincts on the west coast won't even begin to be tallied until early Wednesday morning, but the election could be decided...
US election: Chrysler gives day off to its employees and urges them to go vote
Chrysler gave all 55,000 of its employees the day off work on Election Day and urged them to go vote - a move that...
US election: Staten Island voters guided to polling site by flares in the dark
Staten Island residents were guided to a polling site in the dark this morning by flares as problems mounted for New York voters across...
Obama refuses to call Libyan attack on US embassy an act of terrorism during 60 Minutes interview
CBS has quietly released an interview with President Barack Obama which was filmed one day after the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi...
Globe magazine claims Queen is dying and Camilla has evil plot to claim throne
Globe magazine has published a shocking front cover claiming that Queen Elizabeth is dying and the Duchess of Cornwall has an “evil plot” to...
Neil Heywood had spy links, providing information to MI6, claims Wall Street Journal
Neil Heywood, the British businessman killed in China by Bo Xilai’s wife, had been providing information to the British secret service, the Wall Street...
Anatoly Serdyukov, Russian Defense Minister, dismissed by Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov after his ministry was caught up in a corruption scandal. Anatoly Serdyukov has been replaced...
Barack Obama wins election in Hart’s Location, one of New Hampshire town that enjoys first vote-status
Barack Obama won election in Hart's Location, one of two tiny New Hampshire villages that get to cast the first votes of the presidential...
Election Day 2012: US voters head to polls to decide tight race
Tens of millions of Americans head to the polls on Tuesday to decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama or hand the job to...
Indian bid to stop public peeing with drums and whistles
Volunteers armed with drums and whistles are being used under a new scheme to shame people going to the toilet in public in the...
SEAL Team Six: Osama bin Laden film panned by critics as Barack Obama propaganda
Conservatives feared SEAL Team Six, the film about the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, was an underhanded propaganda ploy by President Barack Obama's...
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