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In Syria, a ceasefire that's part of a United Nations-Arab League peace plan is unraveling just six days after it got underway. Once again, dozens of people are dying each day as the Syrian military pounds the cities and towns that have most fiercely resisted the government. Opposition rebels are fighting back.

Also: Poll shows dead heat between Romney, Obama; Secret Service continues investigation into agents' conduct in Colombia; Ozzie Guillen returns to the dugout in Miami.

Culture Minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth is under fire for smilingly cutting into a cake in the shape of a naked African woman. The artist who made it says it was meant to call attention to the problem of female genital mutilation.

Scheinman's quartet features players raised on and accustomed to performing all kinds of music.

In the tiny village of Marcoles in the French heartland, the political debate over security and terrorism is hardly what concerns people. In such places, where young people often leave for the city, the future is about creating jobs and a spirit of community and solidarity.

The TV show Mad Men has won fans for breathing life — and a heavy whiff of bourbon — into the fictional workplace of the 1960s. And it seems that some U.S. companies are still at it — at least, they're making sure their employees have easy access to liquor and beer.

Singer-guitarist Roger McGuinn, best known as leader of The Byrds, is a folk-rock pioneer. Since the group disbanded, McGuinn has pursued a solo career, and also created the Folk Den Project, an online database of traditional songs he records.

It's become much cheaper and easier to put college courses online, and new technologies have only made these classes more valuable. Following the lead of other top universities, Harvard and MIT announced a new venture Wednesday to provide online classes for free.

The board met to discuss a British report that said Murdoch was unfit to run his company.

One of the prosecution's key witnesses, Andy Pettitte, concedes that he may have misunderstood Roger Clemens, his former teammate, as saying he used human growth hormone. It's not the only setback prosecutors faced Wednesday.