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A cache of e-mails leaked to CNN reveals a ruling family often occupied with YouTube videos and shopping during the regime's move to crush a civilian uprising.

Controversy is brewing in Arizona as the state Senate considers a bill that would give all businesses the option to exclude contraceptives from health insurance coverage.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration sought to put the best face on an Afghanistan policy called into question Thursday by the apparent shelving of talks with insurgents and announcement from the U.S.-backed government in Kabul that it will not support the fielding of U.S. forces deep into rural villages, a key goal of the current military strategy....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration sought to put the best face on an Afghanistan policy called into question Thursday by the apparent shelving of talks with insurgents and announcement from the U.S.-backed government in Kabul that it will not support the fielding of U.S. forces deep into rural villages, a key goal of the current military strategy....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration sought to put the best face on an Afghanistan policy called into question Thursday by the apparent shelving of talks with insurgents and announcement from the U.S.-backed government in Kabul that it will not support the fielding of U.S. forces deep into rural villages, a key goal of the current military strategy....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration sought to put the best face on an Afghanistan policy called into question Thursday by the apparent shelving of talks with insurgents and announcement from the U.S.-backed government in Kabul that it will not support the fielding of U.S. forces deep into rural villages, a key goal of the current military strategy....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration sought to put the best face on an Afghanistan policy called into question Thursday by the apparent shelving of talks with insurgents and announcement from the U.S.-backed government in Kabul that it will not support the fielding of U.S. forces deep into rural villages, a key goal of the current military strategy....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration sought to put the best face on an Afghanistan policy called into question Thursday by the apparent shelving of talks with insurgents and announcement from the U.S.-backed government in Kabul that it will not support the fielding of U.S. forces deep into rural villages, a key goal of the current military strategy....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration sought to put the best face on an Afghanistan policy called into question Thursday by the apparent shelving of talks with insurgents and announcement from the U.S.-backed government in Kabul that it will not support the fielding of U.S. forces deep into rural villages, a key goal of the current military strategy....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the latest likely case of an insider attack, an American service member was killed and several others injured Monday when individuals dressed in Afghan police uniforms turned their guns on them in southern Afghanistan, U.S. officials said....

Vice President Joe Biden and a new video help ramp up Team Obama's campaign. CNN's Jessica Yellin reports.

Chevron halts oil production at a Brazilian off-shore field after a second spill of crude from the sea-bed.

Paddington Bear is voted the UK's favourite animated character of all time at the British Animation Awards in London.

Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife pay their respects to the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks during a visit to Ground Zero in New York.

LARGO, Md. (AP) -- Vigorously defending his policies, President Barack Obama ridiculed critics of renewable energy sources Thursday, calling them naysayers and comparing them to the flat-earthers of yesteryear....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama pushed Congress Tuesday to give oil market regulators more muscle to deter price manipulation by speculators, the latest White House response to determined Republican attacks on administration energy policies amid high gas prices at the pump....

LARGO, Md. (AP) -- Vigorously defending his policies, President Barack Obama ridiculed critics of renewable energy sources Thursday, calling them naysayers and comparing them to the flat-earthers of yesteryear....

Manchester City go out of the Europa League on away goals despite an impressive second-half fightback against Sporting Lisbon.

The future of the Tube and Heathrow Airport top the agenda when the four main candidates to be London mayor clash at a hustings in the City.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- International envoy Kofi Annan told the U.N. Security Council Tuesday that the situation in Syria is "bleak" and expressed alarm at reports that government troops are still carrying out military operations in towns where U.N. observers are not present....