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Are you frustrated because your child can remember all the lyrics to the songs on their iPod, but can’t remember what they studied last night for today’s science test? As many as 10 percent of children have a ‘poor working memory,’ it is being reported by MSNBC. “You can think …

NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenya’s president and the rival with whom he has agreed to share power after weeks of bitter negotiations held a two-hour meeting Tuesday about how to move the country past postelection violence that killed more than 1,000 people. President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga both …

KABUL, Afghanistan – The neighborhood boys shout at Mehboba Ahdyar when she leaves home. “Hero, hero! Look at the hero of our country,” they yell at Ahdyar, one of Afghanistan’s fastest female runners. But the boys are not saluting a top athlete. Their sarcastic jabs are meant to poke fun …

BEIJING – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says Tibetan protesters are trying to undermine the Beijing Olympics. Speaking Tuesday on the final day of China’s annual legislative session, Wen said the protests went against the wishes of the Chinese people to host a successful Olympics in August. “By staging that incident …

LOS ANGELES – Police say a South Los Angeles middle school administrator has been arrested for investigation of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a student. Steven Thomas Rooney, assistant principal at Edwin Markham Middle School, was arrested Tuesday. Police allege that a 13-year-old student from the school was attacked Saturday, but …

LIHUE, Hawaii – A horse is a horse, of course, of course, but the one brought to visit a patient at Wilcox Memorial Hospital was the wrong horse. Hospital spokeswoman Lani Yukimura says a drunken man brought the horse to visit an ailing relative earlier this month, thinking it would …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Hundreds of Shiites spilled into Baghdad streets on Sunday to support their governing coalition, which took a large lead in the Dec. 15 elections and has been the target of opposition vote-rigging accusations. Sunni Arab groups staged smaller demonstrations in the western Anbar Province city of Fallujah …

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – Sean “Diddy” Combs made a surprise visit to Chris Evert’s charity tennis tournament to meet a teenage cancer patient. For Chalon Keen, 17, of Sunrise, who has been fighting for two years a cancer that creates tumors in her muscle cells, Saturday’s visit was a dream …

WASHINGTON – Congress moved Thursday to prevent the Internal Revenue Service from cutting operating hours for toll-free telephone help lines next year. The effort to block the reductions marked the latest step in a yearlong disagreement between Congress and the IRS over taxpayer service. Agency Commissioner Mark Everson has been …

JIAMUSI, China – The United States said Tuesday it was sending experts to help China limit damage from a toxic spill in a river, while Beijing promised to work closely with Moscow to cope with the chemicals flowing toward Russia’s Far East. Meanwhile, the American ambassador to China expressed concern …