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How do you market BBC News in North America? Make it sound too British, and you risk all sorts of distracting associations. In the U.S., a plummy British voice means quaint and old as much as it means worldly.

Like all great Washington scandals, there is something bafflingly petty about the original crime that sent Justice Department mole-hunters thundering into the White House.

The United States is failing in its mission to create a secular, overtly pro-Western Iraq, a leading adviser to the American administrator Paul Bremer has said.

Pentagon orders 62,000 soldiers to head for Gulf

Bin Laden's letters in Al Qaida man's room

Analysts reject oil as ultimate aim of war

European Union civil servants are building a subsidised creche for their infant children in Brussels.

People applying to live in the Netherlands will have to take an examination to prove that they understand the language and culture, the government has proposed.

The European Commission labels voters in the United Kingdom as the most "ignorant" about the European Union's prospective constitution.

Father blames US for 'great kid's' murder

Pregnant women soft target for traffickers

US President George W Bush was sent a public manifesto Tuesday by Washington's hawks, demanding regime change in Syria and Iran and a Cuba-style military blockade of North Korea backed by planning for a pre-emptive strike on its nuclear sites.