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TV chef Jamie Oliver says he has given up on trying to change governments’ attitudes to healthy eating, as he visits New York in a bid to tackle obesity there.

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, whose stay at the US embassy caused a diplomatic crisis, leaves China on a plane heading for the US.

Social networking service Pinterest is to receive $100m in funding, prompting analysts to value the two-year-old firm at up to $1.5bn.

US firefighters are continuing to battle a growing wildfire near Crown King in Arizona, with dry conditions and high wind hampering efforts to contain it.

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng tells the US Congress of “a pattern” of harassment against his relatives, in a second telephone conversation.

Barack Obama’s US re-election campaign takes aim at Mitt Romney, portraying him as a job-killer who cannot be trusted with the American economy.

A Panamanian fisherman who survived 28 days adrift in the Pacific and watched two companions die sues the US owners of a cruise ship that sailed past.

A jury in Chicago finds the former brother-in-law of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson guilty of murdering three members of her family.