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TOMILINO, Russia (AP) -- Two years after Artem Saveliev's American adoptive mother put him alone on a plane back to his homeland, the towheaded 9-year-old shivers and barks "No!" when asked if he ever would go back to the United States....

TOMILINO, Russia (AP) -- Two years after Artem Saveliev's American adoptive mother put him alone on a plane back to his homeland, the towheaded 9-year-old shivers and barks "No!" when asked if he ever would go back to the United States....

A shampooing robot, the North Pole wedding proposal and President Obama and a giant bunny. It's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box, this week with Natalie Jamieson.

CAIRO (AP) -- Hosni Mubarak's former spy chief said in comments published Thursday that he decided to run for president to prevent Islamists from turning Egypt into a "religious state," and warned that the country would be internationally isolated if one of them won the presidency....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- The press bus took a wrong turn Thursday. And suddenly, everything changed in the official showcase of North Korean achievement....

On Thursday, CNN correspondent Ivan Watson was at a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey. A stone's throw away, a barbed-wire fence marked the border with Syria, a porous frontier that has become a lifeline for the Syrian opposition inside the country. For hours, he watched Syrians, whole families even, crawl through a hole in the fence to go back and forth across the border. Most of them would eventually return to the refugee camp.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A toy grenade was to blame for an evacuation Thursday at a building near ground zero, authorities said....

The UN is preparing to send monitors to Syria to observe a fragile ceasefire, which has come into force after more than a year of violence.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dan the baboon sits in front of a computer screen. The letters BRRU pop up. With a quick and almost dismissive tap, the monkey signals it's not a word. Correct. Next comes, ITCS. Again, not a word. Finally KITE comes up....

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- When Susan Combs was growing up on her family's West Texas ranch, conserving water was part of everyday life: If the windmill wasn't turning and the storage tank at least half full, the household plumbing was turned off - even the toilets....

Egypt's Islamist-controlled parliament passes a law barring former regime officials standing for president, a move rejected by the ruling military council.

Sir Jackie Stewart has said that Formula One should not pull out of the race in Bahrain.

Pakistani MPs vote to reopen Nato's supply routes to Afghanistan, closed after an air raid on a Pakistani border post last year

Rarely have the differences between presidential candidates been so stark....

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The vote to repeal Connecticut's death penalty brought a moment of triumph for Elizabeth Brancato, a lifelong opponent of capital punishment despite the murder of her mother in 1979....

House Republicans released new documentation Thursday designed to undercut administration claims that the cost of past General Services Administration conferences increased at a far greater rate under President George W. Bush than under President Barack Obama.

A loud bang which sparked a deluge of calls to emergency services across a large part of England was a sonic boom from a Typhoon aircraft, the Ministry of Defence says.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's president raised the prospect Thursday of holding presidential elections a year early to avoid a potentially deadly concurrence of a transition of power and a major drawdown of international forces in 2014....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Democratic strategist is apologizing to Ann Romney for saying the stay-at-home wife of wealthy Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has never worked a day in her life....