The Olympic flame will go out tonight in Beijing as the build-up to London 2012 gathers pace, but what will we remember of these Games? Phelps, Bolt and Great Britain, but we should not overlook the achievement of every athlete - even one from Tuvalu These Olympic Games, the strangest and perhaps the most beguiling of the 29 held so far, did not just belong to Michael Phelps. Or Usain Bolt. Nor did...
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The U.S. government will pay the Navajo Nation $554 million to settle long-standing claims that it mismanaged funds and natural resources on the tribe's reservation for years....
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The U.S. and Arab allies launched a second major wave of airstrikes in Syria targeting mobile oil refineries controlled by Islamic State, the Pentagon said....