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Seven weeks after U.S. tanks were battling with fedayeen in the streets of Baghdad, Iraq's well-heeled elite went to the races Sunday. For the first time since the shooting stopped, the Baghdad Equestrian Club opened its gates for business - a full six-race card, and a concrete symbol that life was finally returning to normal again.

Tribal heads feast on hatred of 'invaders'

Please don't forget the wedding wings

After months of false starts, the rickety craft of May’s strategy briefly took flight, and then promptly nose-dived

The left rails against globalisation and out-sourcing but the reality is that it has delivered to America’s middle class what it always wanted

The left rails against globalisation and out-sourcing but the reality is that it has delivered to America’s middle class what it always wanted

There is precious little that Obama can do to reassure the American public

Rand must convince the traditional conservative base of his party

Obama too black for some whites and not black enough for some African-Americans

Temperature of water, shape of cushions and crispness of crudites all apparently essential

The result was a collective shrug of disappointment from a divided electorate

The real question is whether Obama can re-emerge as a force for progress