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In this image provided by NBC Blake Shelton, Danielle Bradbery and Cher, right, pose after Bradbery won season-four of "The Voice" Tuesday June 18, 2013. Bradbery never had a big singing gig or a vocal lesson. It's also the third win for her coach Blake Shelton. (AP Photo/NBC, Trae Patton)

Cher credits luck for her lengthy career

Cher is no stranger to tabloid fodder. The 67-year-old singer who has spent most of her life in the spotlight offered this advice to young artists on navigating the world of paparazzi attention: "You're screwed. That's my advice." "You don't deal with it. You just try to get a place ...

  • Updated: 4:54 a.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Muhammad Naeem a representative of the Taliban speaks during a press conference at the official opening of their office in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a major breakthrough, the Taliban and the U.S. announced Tuesday that they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan as the Islamic militant movement opened an office in Qatar. American officials with the Obama administration said the office in the Qatari capital of Doha was the first step toward the ultimate U.S.-Afghan goal of a full Taliban renouncement of links with al-Qaida. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

Karzai suspends talks with US over Taliban move

The Afghan president on Wednesday suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way his government was being left out of initial peace negotiations with the Taliban meant to find ways to end the nearly 12-year war. The move by Hamid Karzai could derail ...

  • Updated: 4:50 a.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
In this photo taken Monday, June 17, 2013, lawyer Nguyen Thi Duong Ha stands in the courtyard of her home in downtown Hanoi, Vietnam. Her husband Cu Huy Ha Vu is entering the fourth week of a prison hunger strike to protest alleged poor treatment. Vu was jailed after suing the prime minister and calling for multiparty democracy. His strike comes amid an intensifying crackdown on dissident, and illustrates how the government's most outspoken critics speak out despite threats to their health and safety. (AP Photo/Mike Ives)

Vietnam hunger strike tests official intimidation

Cu Huy Ha Vu's books come with pages torn out by prison guards. Only some of his letters reach home. He is not allowed to access evidence from his trial or to see his wife alone. This treatment, described by Vu's wife, has driven the Vietnamese legal scholar to a ...

  • Updated: 4:48 a.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013

AP PHOTOS: Heat's overtime escape to defend title

The Miami Heat were so close to elimination from the NBA championships that the team noticed officials bringing yellow tape out to block off the court for the Spurs' trophy presentation. But a couple of big 3-pointers later and powered by LeBron James' fourth-quarter surge, the defending champions stayed alive, ...

  • Updated: 4:46 a.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
President Barack Obama and family, from left, daughter Sasha, first lady Michelle Obama, and daughter Malia, arrives at Tegel International Airport in Berlin, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Obama is scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and deliver a speech at the Brandenburg Gate on European and U.S. ties. President Barack Obama is opening a 24-hour visit to Germany, the culmination of which will be a speech Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate. Obama will also hold meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other government officials. He arrived in Berlin following a two-day summit of the Group of 8 industrial nations in Northern Ireland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama's Berlin speech: History raises the stakes

Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement. With his own 2008 speech at Berlin's Victory Column and former President John F. Kennedy's 1963 historic denunciation of the Soviet bloc as markers, Obama ...

  • Updated: 4:48 a.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Bribery trial of former Finmeccanica CEO opens

The former head of the Italian aerospace and defense giant Finmeccanica goes on trial in a case involving alleged bribes to win a 560 million euro ($670 million) helicopter contract in India. Giuseppe Orsi, who resigned in February, faces corruption charges in a case that has tarnished the state-controlled company. ...

  • Updated: 4:41 a.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
A RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, illuminated sign and logo are seen through revolving doors inside an entrance of their offices in London, Thursday, June 13, 2013. Bailed-out U.K. lender Royal Bank of Scotland said Wednesday that Stephen Hester will step down as chief executive later this year — a move that creates some uncertainty as the bank prepares to return to the private sector. The board of the bank, which is 81 percent owned by the taxpayer after it was rescued by the U.K. government in 2008, said Hester was unable to make an open-ended commitment to lead the bank back into the private sector after having already served five years. The search for a successor will begin immediately. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

UK banking commission urges better standards

British bankers could soon be facing harsher penalties for behaving badly. After a year which has seen major scandals involving rate-rigging, money-laundering and rogue-trading rock the UK's financial industry, an influential parliamentary committee recommended Wednesday that senior bankers should be held more accountable for their bank's actions. One measure, it ...

  • Updated: 4:37 a.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Currency factors weigh on retailer H&M's Q2 profit

Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz AB on Wednesday said profits fell by 11 percent in the second quarter due to the strong Swedish krona and increased markdowns as it tried to shift its products. The company said its net profit for the March-May period dropped to 4.66 billion kronor ...

  • Updated: 4:25 a.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Afghan refugee children, swim in muddy water created from a broken water pipe, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, June 17, 2013. Pakistan hosts over 1.6 million registered Afghans, the largest and most protracted refugee population in the world, according to the U.N. refugee agency. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

UN says 45.2 million refugees and displaced people

The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide by the end of 2012, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday. Those are the highest numbers since 1994, when people fled genocide ...

  • Updated: 4:25 a.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
In this June 11, 2013, photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grassley says the Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts. He says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees’ union on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, to pay the bonuses. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senator: IRS to pay $70M in employee bonuses

The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says his office has learned that the IRS is executing ...

  • Updated: 4:20 a.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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