A photograph of a young black boy feeling President Obama’s hair has been on view in the West Wing for years.

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Indelible Image of Boy’s Pat on Obama’s Head

Prince Charles proved to be a dab-hand as a DJ on a visit to a youth centre music studio in Canada.

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VIDEO: Prince Charles turns his hand to DJing

A 16-year-old youth assaulted on the outskirts of north Belfast on Saturday remains in a critical condition in hospital.

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Youth, 16, critical after attack

Paul Waldman says Romney expressed regret when faced with allegations about youthful bullying, but his distancing response won't do much to show voters he possesses empathy

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Opinion: Romney’s response is lame

Several young authors of financial advice books say they were taught at an early age to be mindful about money.

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Your Money: How to Raise a Financial Guru

The court in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik begins hearing coroners’ reports for the 69 people killed in a youth camp massacre on Norway’s Utoeya Island.

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Breivik: Island killings detailed

The court in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik begins hearing coroners’ reports for the 69 people killed in a youth camp massacre on Norway’s Utoeya Island.

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Breivik: Island killings detailed

Convicted former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. may have had help from someone in city government when he stole nearly $350,000 from a nonprofit, a council report has concluded. But in the extensive report, to be released Friday, the council’s Committee on Human Services said it did not have enough information to name anyone who could have provided that assistance. The report faults officials at the Children’s Youth Investment Trust Corp. for failing to detect the fraud. Read full article > >

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Thomas may have had help to divert funds, D.C. Council report finds

South Africans woke up on Wednesday morning to the claim that a group of Soweto youths had filmed themselves raping a 17-year-old girl believed to be mentally ill.

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Rape video goes viral in South Africa

From the Shahs of Sunset to the Mullahs of Qom, Iran stands a Catch-22 waddling to find its way between Bravo and Basij, Marxist and Muslim, youth and establishment, sincerity and tar’ruf. Sound confusing? Welcome to Irani irony, a culture where expectations are implied but never stated, perhaps the only one where you’ll find yourself politely chastised. To navigate in it is an improvisational act of its own, an interplay where actions depend on relational anticipation. This is the game of Persian life.

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Jazz Mirrors Iran, Part III: Isn’t It Iranic?

Arab youth and sports ministers announced this week a boycott of sports apparel manufacturer Adidas because of its sponsorship of last month’s Jerusalem marathon. The boycott comes at a time that Arab public displeasure is expanding from the West to China and Russia because of their support for the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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Arabs Boycott Adidas as Public Displeasure Shifts From the West to China

Only in Iran, the government makes a movie about cracking down on its protesters and shooting at them, then blames it on foreign spies and the people themselves. A new movie called Ghaladehay-e-Tala or The Golden Collars, premiered for the Persian New Year, is telling the story of the 2009 presidential election and its aftermath which led to what the West knows as the Green Movement. See the trailer here . Screening of this film at this time is significant since two other Iranian movies scheduled to be screened at the time of Persian New Year celebrations were banned while one in particular depicts the activities of  Gasht-e-Irshad or Morality Police which harasses the Iranian youth for not following Islamic codes of clothing and conducts. As the screening of the movie have raised a lot of criticism and anger, this time, Iranians feel betrayed by some of their favorite actors and actresses who have played in the movie and call on the boycott of the film and its characters. Comments on YouTube also have been overwhelming. Those who personally participated in the protests compare the movie with their own experiences. For example, one comment asked how could people be carrying guns when he even didn’t see anyone carrying a stick?! Others, just simply shower the filmmakers, the actors and the government of Islamic Republic with their colorful language. However, my favorite reaction to the movie was this photoshoped poster I found on Facebook which I had to share: Is there any other way I could convince you that Iranians will always find a way to prove they are not their government?

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Only in Iran: The Green Movement Movie

BAGHDAD — Panic is spreading among young people in Iraq after reports by Iraqi media and rights groups that dozens of people have been threatened or killed in the past few weeks because they are suspected of being gay or because they dress in a distinctive, gothic style known as emo. Read full article > >

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Iraqi youth panicked by reports of killings

Unlike the lucky students of classicist Madeline Miller , I was never exposed to Homer in my youth. Until I was 60 and writing about Doc Holliday (who read the classics in their original languages), the closest I came to “ The Iliad ” was watching Brad Pitt in “

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‘The Song of Achilles,’ by Madeline Miller

Age is relative around a baseball clubhouse, and Ryan Zimmerman has lived inside one long enough to learn that. Put him anywhere else, and his youth is unmistakable. Put him around the Washington Nationals for more than six years, and his experience makes him an elder. Read full article > >

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