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Byline: Jon Swaine A POLITICIAN in Texas has been accused of 'disgusting' dirty tricks after winning a local election against an African-American opponent by pretending to be black. Dave Wilson, [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York GORE VIDAL lived in fear of allegations that he was a paedophile being made public, his relations have claimed in a new book. The [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine TWO members of an Iranian rock band and one of their friends were shot dead by another musician in New York in a murder suicide, their manager [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York THE mayor of Toronto yesterday admitted to smoking crack cocaine during a 'drunken stupor'. Rob Ford, who has spent the past six months refusing [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York TWO pilots and nine skydivers survived a mid-air collision that threw them from their planes, managing to parachute to the ground amid falling debris. [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York A LEFT-WING city official who wants to increase taxes for Manhattan's millionaires is today expected to become the first Democrat elected as mayor of [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York A BRITISH security contractor at the US mission in Benghazi has told how he was spared death by the Islamist militants who mounted last [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York A BRITISH billionaire has paid $10 million (£6.2million) to victims of Ferdinand Marcos, the former Philippines president, in order to keep hold of a [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York A charity shop oil painting on which Banksy added a Nazi officer gazing at the view is poised to sell for more than £130,000. [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine Still buzzing after coming face to face with one of their idols, the five teenagers who had skipped class were brought crashing down to earth the moment [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York A BRITISH security contractor said he repeatedly warned US officials that their diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, was inadequately protected before it suffered a [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York RINGO STARR is searching forfive Americans now in their 60s whom he photographed during The Beatles' first trip to the US almost 50 years [...]

Byline: Harriet Alexander and Jon Swaine An American couple whose baby daughter disappeared two years ago have contacted the Greek authorities in the hope that Maria could be their child, [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York PRESIDENT John F Kennedy's brain may have been stolen by his brother, Robert, to prevent disclosures about the medication he was taking when he [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York HILLARY CLINTON has accused Republicans of pursuing 'scorched earth' politics at herfirst campaign event in five years, raising hopes among supporters that she is [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York A SIX-YEAR-OLD victim of the Sandy Hook massacre saved his friends' lives by using his final words to urge them to escape the gunman [...]

Byline: JON SWAINE A 'SUPER salmon' is expected to be approved for sale in the United States within weeks, reigniting a debate over genetically modified food. The salmon would be [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine HE WAS the billionaire crown prince of Silicon Valley, hailed as the most able chief executive of his generation and a visionary model to young entrepreneurs aspiring [...]

Byline: JON SWAINE in New York A NEW 'super salmon' is expected to be approved for sale in the United States within weeks, reigniting a heated debate over genetically modified [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York THE British graffiti artist Banksy has been accused of defacing New York. While delighting lovers of street art by painting a new work in [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York A YOUNG New Jersey mayor, who tackled his city's problems via Twitter and is billed by some Democrats as the heir to Barack Obama, [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York THE alleged architect of al-Qaeda's bombing of two American embassies in Africa in which more than 200 people died pleaded not guilty at a [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York THE ALLEGED architect of al-Qaeda's 1998 African embassy bombings, who was seized by US forces in Libya earlier this month, is expected to appear [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York HIS spray-painted stencils lampooning politics and popular culture, which sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds, have spawned dozens of copycats since first appearing [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York BRITAIN and the US must not be 'imprisoned' by the experience of war in Iraq and cannot focus on domestic problems at the expense [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York THE United Nations has been sued for billions of dollars by victims of a deadly cholera epidemic in Haiti that scientists say was caused [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York ABU ANAS AL-LIBI, the al-Qaeda lieutenant seized in Tripoli, was released from questioning by police in Manchester and has spent the past 14 years [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York BENJAMIN NETANYAHU has said he is prepared to speak with the Iranian president on the telephone, and would consider meeting him, but only to [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York FRANK SINATRA'S widow has dismissed suggestions that her late husband fathered a son with Mia Farrow while she was in a relationship with Woody [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York WITH his bright blue eyes and roguish good looks, Ronan Farrow has never much looked like his father, Woody Allen. His does, however, bear [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York, Raf Sanchez in Washington and Nick Allen in Los Angeles and Additional reporting by David Lawler in Washington THE proud monument to American self-government [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York and David Blair BASHAR AL-ASSAD could escape punishment if he fails to surrender his chemical weapons, after Russia reserved the right to veto any [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York AN INTERNATIONAL gang of mercenaries led by a former US Army sniper nicknamed 'Rambo' plotted to murder an American anti-drugs agent and boasted of [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New THE UN's leading powers last night reached a deal aimed at forcing the Syrian regime to dismantle its stocks of chemical weapons, according to Western [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York and James Kirkup NICK CLEGG dismissed Ed Miliband's plan to freeze energy prices as 'magicwand politics' yesterday and accused the Labour leader of misleading [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York A FORMER care worker from London has been accused of plotting to help al-Shabaab, the African al-Qaeda affiliate behind the Nairobi attack, to develop [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in Minneapolis TEENAGE boys in America's biggest Somali community are being urged to betray the United States and join 'the real Disneyland' of African jihad, in a [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York and Peter Dominiczak in Brighton GORDON BROWN last night declined to condemn the actions of Damian McBride, his former aide who has confessed to [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York and Peter Dominiczak in Brighton GORDON BROWN has declined to condemn the actions of Damian McBride, his former aide who has confessed to smearing [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in Elk City FOR almost two decades, Winston Williams traipsed across the sandy hills of western Oklahoma, searching the vast, windswept dunes for a trace of his [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York The remains of six people have been discovered in two cars that lay at the bottom of an American lake for more than 40 [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York ROMAN POLANSKI has claimed he was persecuted by the US authorities that attempted to have him extradited from Europe for the alleged rape of [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York HUMAN remains have been found buried in the grounds of a notorious former borstal in Florida, amid fears that dozens of pupils were secretly [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York JACK NICHOLSON, the Oscar-winning actor behind some of the most memorable roles in 20th-century cinema, may have appeared in his final film, according to [...]

Byline: Raf Sanchez, Jon Swaine and Peter Foster PRESIDENT Barack Obama secured the support of Republican leaders in Congress for military action in Syria yesterday, as he promised that strikes [...]

Byline: Raf Sanchez, Jon Swaine and Peter Foster PRESIDENT Barack Obama secured the support of Republican leaders in Congress for military action in Syria yesterday, as he promised that strikes [...]

Byline: Henry Samuel in Paris and Jon Swaine in New York BASHAR AL-ASSAD yesterday challenged the West to provide 'the slightest proof' that he used chemical weapons against his people. [...]