NFL in '$765m concussion settlement'

29 August 2013 Last updated at 15:10 ET The National Football League and former players who say it hid the dangers of concussion have reached a $765m (£490m) settlement, a judge says. The NFL would pay the sum to fund concussion-related compensation,...

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US will not challenge cannabis laws

29 August 2013 Last updated at 16:00 ET The US government has said it will not sue to stop the states of Colorado and Washington from legalising recreational use of marijuana. The justice department said it would focus on preventing underage...

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US fast-food workers on strike

29 August 2013 Last updated at 17:40 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The BBC meets a low-paid fast-food worker in New York who says she is barely scraping by Fast-food workers in dozens of US cities...

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US girl, 6, dies in boy's joyride

30 August 2013 Last updated at 10:51 ET An eight-year-old Arizona boy has crashed his mother's car after taking it for a joyride, fatally injuring his six-year-old sister, who was with him. The mother put the two children to bed in Phoenix on...

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North Korea 'cancels' US envoy visit

30 August 2013 Last updated at 11:54 ET North Korea has revoked an invitation for a US envoy to travel to Pyongyang to seek the release of an American man, the US state department says. Robert King, the US special envoy for North Korean rights,...

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US spying 'black budget' detailed

30 August 2013 Last updated at 13:55 ET A breakdown of US intelligence's multi-billion dollar "black budget" has been revealed in files disclosed by leaker Edward Snowden to the Washington Post. The CIA's budget is the most expensive, $14.7bn...

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US man convicted of murdering baby

30 August 2013 Last updated at 17:40 ET An 18-year-old US man has been convicted of murder in the shooting of a 13-month-old boy in Georgia in March. De'Marquis Elkins now faces life in prison. At the time of the shooting, he was 17 - too young...

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Venezuela strip club attacker jailed

30 August 2013 Last updated at 19:07 ET A Venezuelan man has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for opening fire on two US diplomats in a Caracas strip club. The attorney general's office said Carlos Mejias admitted wounding...

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Top US judge to perform gay wedding

30 August 2013 Last updated at 20:40 ET US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is poised to become the first judge on the country's highest court to perform a same-sex marriage. Justice Ginsburg, 80, officiates this weekend at the wedding...

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Putin challenges US on Syria claims

31 August 2013 Last updated at 08:55 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner examines what we know about the Syria attack on 21 August Russian President...

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Syrian hacking fallout continues

28 August 2013 Last updated at 07:05 ET By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News The websites of the New York Times and Twitter are still suffering problems related to a damaging hack carried out on Tuesday. The newspaper and social network...

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Merrill Lynch settles US race suit

28 August 2013 Last updated at 17:14 ET Brokerage giant Merrill Lynch has settled a racial discrimination lawsuit for $160m (£103.1m), which could affect as many as 1,200 employees in the US. It is one of the largest sums ever paid in a discrimination...

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Fort Hood gunman sentenced to death

28 August 2013 Last updated at 19:38 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. It could be years, possibly decades, before Maj Hasan is executed because of the long appeals process in the military justice system....

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Defecting Cuban hurdler aims for US

28 August 2013 Last updated at 04:50 ET A top Cuban hurdler who defected earlier this month says he now wants to be reunited with his mother in Florida. Orlando Ortega, 22, criticised the Cuban sports authorities in a phone call to the Associated...

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'Revenge porn' law debated in US

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Zimmerman wife guilty of perjury

28 August 2013 Last updated at 11:59 ET The wife of the Florida neighbourhood watchman acquitted of killing an unarmed black teenager has been convicted of perjury. Shellie Zimmerman, 26, admitted having lied about how much bail money the couple...

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Douglas and Zeta Jones 'take break'

28 August 2013 Last updated at 12:48 ET Hollywood actors Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones "are taking time apart" after 13 years of marriage, it has been confirmed. The actress's publicist told the BBC the couple had taken the decision...

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Obama marks King's 'Dream' speech

28 August 2013 Last updated at 17:27 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. US President Barack Obama: "Because they marched, America became more free and fair" US President Barack Obama has linked...

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Rob Ford: I used 'a lot' of cannabis

28 August 2013 Last updated at 18:50 ET Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has said he has smoked "a lot" of marijuana, as a national debate on legalisation of the drug builds. Mr Ford, who leads Canada's largest city, became the fourth Canadian politician...

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Clooney film opens Venice festival

29 August 2013 Last updated at 05:59 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. George Clooney and Sandra Bullock sign autographs on the red carpet Oscar-winning actors George Clooney and Sandra Bullock have...

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Fort Hood gunman Hasan convicted

23 August 2013 Last updated at 14:52 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Alastair Leithead reports on the trial in which Hasan provided "no defence at all" The US Army psychiatrist who shot dead 13...

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US mayor quits, denying harassment

23 August 2013 Last updated at 19:03 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Mr Filner: "I apologise to all of you. I think I let you down" The mayor of San Diego, who has been battling sexual harassment...

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'Uranium shoe' man arrested in US

24 August 2013 Last updated at 10:33 ET A man from Sierra Leone has been arrested at New York's John F Kennedy airport with uranium samples allegedly concealed in his shoes. Patrick Campbell was charged with attempting to broker a sale of 1,000...

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US marks 'I have a dream' speech

24 August 2013 Last updated at 17:07 ET Continue reading the main story Thousands of people have attended a rally in Washington DC to mark 50 years since Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech on civil rights. Jobs, voting rights...

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Battle to contain Yosemite blaze

24 August 2013 Last updated at 17:38 ET Firefighters in California are struggling to gain control of a huge wildfire which has reached the edge of Yosemite National Park. Known as the Rim Fire, it covers an area of nearly 200 sq miles (500 sq...

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I'm close to death, says Tyson

Former undisputed heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson claims he is "on the verge of dying" from ongoing drug and alcohol problems. Tyson, 47, admitted he is a continual substance abuser but added he is hopeful of finally getting clean. "I want...

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Broadway star Julie Harris dies

25 August 2013 Last updated at 04:48 ET Continue reading the main story US actress Julie Harris, a star of stage and screen who won five Tony Awards, has died at the age of 87. Harris was best known for her roles on Broadway, where she jointly...

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Argentina loses $1.3bn debt appeal

25 August 2013 Last updated at 06:50 ET Argentina has been told again it must pay back more than $1.3bn (£830m) to a group of investors - 12 years after its record debt default. A New York appeals court unanimously rejected every Argentine...

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US and UK vow 'serious' Syria move

25 August 2013 Last updated at 06:58 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama spoke by phone on Saturday The UK and the US have threatened a "serious...

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Son to finish Leonard's last novel

25 August 2013 Last updated at 07:37 ET The son of late author Elmore Leonard has said he hopes to complete his father's last novel. Elmore Leonard, whose books included Get Shorty and Out of Sight, died aged 87 on Tuesday after a suffering...

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Afghan massacre soldier given life

23 August 2013 Last updated at 16:50 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Staff Sgt Robert Bales pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty, as Alastair Leithead reports The US soldier who murdered 16...

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Affleck is Batman in Superman film

23 August 2013 Last updated at 00:47 ET Ben Affleck has been cast as Batman in a forthcoming Superman sequel, bringing together the two superheroes in one film for the first time. The 41-year-old will star opposite British actor Henry Cavill,...

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Nasdaq boss blames halt on outsiders

23 August 2013 Last updated at 10:18 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Alastair McCaig, from IG, said there was a risk from from the interruption Nasdaq boss Robert Greifeld has alluded to outside...

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