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Sonja Sohn, above, who played Kima Greggs in 'The Wire' with her group, ReWired for Change

Mark Hughes in Baltimore: 'Wire' star joins real fight against crime

The latest instalment of our crime reporter's job-swap with his counterpart at 'The Baltimore Sun' focuses on community efforts to tackle the US city's crime problem

Inside Americas

US President Barack Obama speaking at the memorial service at Fort Hood, Texas

Decision day looms for Obama's troop dilemma

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

President accused of dithering by Republicans as opposition to war grows

John Allen Muhammad is due to be executed today by lethal injection

'DC sniper' loses last hope of reprieve

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Governor denies clemency to one of the gunmen behind killings in 2002

Bear Stearns fund managers found not guilty

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

In a huge setback for government prosecutors, a jury in New York City last night acquitted two former hedge-fund managers with Bear Stearns of lying to clients about the safety of their money even when they themselves allegedly saw disaster around the corner because of the imploding sub-prime mortgage market.

A July 2009 self-portrait of Colton Harris-Moore, found on a stolen camera

Seattle's teenage Jesse James

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

As an outlaw in the grand tradition, 18-year-old Colton Harris-Moore has both infuriated and impressed the Pacific North-West with his escapades. Now he's back on his home turf

Security firm in Iraq 'tried to bribe officials with $1m'

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

The private security firm once known as Blackwater offered as much as $1m (£600,000) in bribes to Iraqi officials to dampen their criticism after employees killed 17 people in Baghdad in 2007 and the firm feared losing its contracts with the US government, the New York Times reported.

A photograph made available by Canadian Forces shows the teenage hunter trapped on an ice floe in Hudson Bay

Youth trapped on ice floe forced to shoot polar bear

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Jerome Taylor: The bear ventured too close while rescuers desperately tried to locate him from the air.

Sheila Dixon, the Mayor of Baltimore

The Crime Exchange: The trials of 'Baltimore's Boris'

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

In the latest instalment of our crime reporter's job-swap Mark Hughes looks at the combustible relationship between politicians and the police force.

President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela

Tensions grow as Chavez masses troops on border

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Threat of bloodshed as Venezuelan president tells his people to prepare for war with Colombia

Pushchair maker defends lack of EU recall

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Maclaren today defended its decision not to organise a European recall of children's pushchairs at the centre of a safety scare despite doing so in the US.

Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd

US hikers will stand trial for espionage, says Iran

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Students who crossed border 'by mistake' could be pawns in nuclear game

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