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Page last updated at 06:44 GMT, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 07:44 UK
Barack Obama and John McCain in Nashville, 7 Oct
US voters put rivals to the test
The US presidential hopefuls spar over the financial crisis and foreign policy in a debate where voters put the questions.
Debate: As it happened
In quotes: McCain v Obama
Second debate: scorecard
Fact-checking the debate
Your reaction
McCain and Obama on priorities

Alistair Darling Rescue plan for UK banks unveiled
Chancellor Alistair Darling announces the details of a £50bn rescue plan for the UK banking system.

Map 'Tourists die' in Nepal air crash
Twelve German tourists are among 18 killed as a passenger plane crashes in Nepal's Everest region, airport officials say.


VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS
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Qantas jet plunge injures 40
Living goddess Kathmandu's new 'living goddess'

Can the Taleban be defeated?

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Barack Obama and John McCain at the debate in Nashville, 7 Oct No game-changer
How McCain failed to pull off the big win he needed
Flemish flag Two tribes
Battle for identity in the divided heart of Europe
A book Lexicon of love
At 59m words and 21,000 pages, why read a dictionary?

US ELECTIONS 2008
Flag Full coverage of the race to succeed George Bush

Talking America - on the BBC bus
Tracking what the polls say
Mapping the key battlegrounds


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AFRICA
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AMERICAS
US stocks sink to five-year low
ASIA-PACIFIC
China makes Nobel prize warning

EUROPE
Euro MPs stick to climate targets
MIDDLE EAST
Middle East stock markets plunge
SOUTH ASIA
Afghan officials ate with Taleban

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TECHNOLOGY
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