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Page last updated at 15:16 GMT, Sunday, 14 March 2010

A police line where the body of a man lies in Acapulco, Mexico, on 13 March 2010
Bloodshed blights Acapulco resort
Thirteen people die, four of whom are beheaded, in drug-related violence at the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco.
Q&A: Mexico's drug violence
Mayors arrested in drug war

Christopher Dodds US bank regulation bill expected
A new bill to tighten regulation of US banks is due to be unveiled, but it may struggle to get backing in the Senate.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the scene of an avalanche near Revelstoke, British Columbia, 13 March 2010. Avalanche hits snowmobile rally
An avalanche hits an unauthorised snowmobile rally in Canada, killing at least three people and triggering a search.


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Mines Deadly legacy
Ridding Falklands of its landmines, 30 years after war
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New US movement tells politicians to smell the coffee
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