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Five-time champion Roger Federer produces a stunning display to beat Robin Soderling and reach the semi-finals of the US Open.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Mexican drug violence is looking increasingly like an insurgency, a comment strongly rejected by Mexico.

A forest fire in the US state of Colorado has destroyed at least 136 homes, officials say.

A mass shooting in a shoe factory in Honduras is blamed on rival street gangs linked to Mexican drug cartels.

The newly appointed head of UN humanitarian relief Lady Valerie Amos has spent her first day in office touring Pakistan.

Mexico has rejected remarks from the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, that drug-related violence in Mexico increasingly has the hallmarks of an insurgency.

The number of shops closing in Britain is slowing but a north-south divide has emerged, a survey by retail analysts the Local Data Company suggests.

A US pastor says he is not "backing down" from plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11, despite international condemnation.

Contractors who worked for BP on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon oil rig criticise the company's report into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Patients could be prescribed music tailored to their needs as a result of new university research.

Scientists begin a study to determine if an everyday vitamin supplement could help prevent a common birth defect.

Boundary changes for the next Scottish Parliament elections suggest a possible boost to the Conservatives, according to experts.

The plight of Commonwealth Games workers in Delhi

Police use the anniversary of the killing of Manchester schoolboy Jessie James to once again appeal for help to catch his killer.

What happened to Mercury, as in Mercury music prize?

A business jet and a passenger plane carrying 232 people came close to a mid-air collision over London in July, a report reveals.

The number of cash machines in the UK has fallen and withdrawals have dropped as shoppers turn to cards, figures show.

A medical charity says it has documented for the first time the effects of immigration detention on children facing removal from the UK.

BP's internal investigation into the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico finds that "a series of failures" was to blame.

Former newspaper editor and Britain's Got Talent judge Piers will replace US TV presenter Larry King on the US network CNN, it is announced.