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Barack Obama fulfilled what had initially been his biggest campaign selling point to bring the US war in Iraq to a close – ‘to be as careful getting out, as we were careless going in’

Thousands of oil industry workers rallied to lift the moratorium on new deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and try to head off new taxes and punitive measures in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill

Swedish prosecutors have reopened an investigation into an allegation of rape against Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks website

Islamabad considering controversial strategy to raise revenue needed to pay for reconstruction

Tony Abbott, Australia’s opposition leader, said the ruling Labor party had been thrown a ‘lifeline’ after it reached a deal with the Greens party, setting back his bid to become prime minister

Karroubi’s wife asks supreme leader to help end harassment by regime’s militias

Manufacturing in China rebounded last month and remained strong in India according to new business surveys, even if other parts of Asia showed signs of slackening demand

Private-sector employment in the US fell for the first time this year in August, underscoring fears that a recovery in the labour market is faltering, but a surprise rise in manufacturing activity offered a glimmer of hope for the sputtering economy

Robert Gates, US defence secretary, has said America’s war in Iraq is over and that the US has moved into the final phase of its engagement in the country

The Paris mansion of Liliane Bettencourt, France’s richest woman has been raided by police in the latest twist in a family row that has escalated into a political scandal

Jewish settler groups plan to resume building in settlements across the occupied West Bank at 6pm, in defiance of a partial construction moratorium imposed by the government

India’s aspiration for glory as the host of the upcoming Commonwealth Games is facing a new threat with a serious outbreak of dengue fever in New Delhi

Tony Blair claims Gordon Brown lost the election because he abandoned New Labour and lost the support of business, in memoirs that give an implicit endorsement of David Miliband as the party’s future leader

Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski becomes the seventh incumbent voted out of office this year as she concedes to Joe Miller, a lawyer backed by Sarah Palin and the conservative Tea Party movement

Barack Obama will meet the Palestinian and Israeli leaders in the White House as the US president’s administration makes its most concerted push for a Middle East peace accord

President Barack Obama declared it was ’time to turn the page’ on disagreements over the war in Iraq, as he marked the end of the US's combat mission and attempted to chalk up a success

A Journey includes a long defence of his motives but does not include an apology, an omission that will enrage many UK critics

A month of demonstrations across Russia culminated in a melee between pro-democracy demonstrators and police in central Moscow on Tuesday, with dozens of protesters arrested and several injured

Barack Obama’s Democratic party faces a series of dramatic defeats at every level of government in Washington and beyond in the November midterm elections, according to leading analysts and opinion polls

Latest in a line of government figures or ruling party members to speak out against Mr Sarkozy’s plan to strip French nationality from immigrants found guilty of serious violence against the police and the deportation of thousands of Roma migrants