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President Obama drinks a Guinness in Hayes Bar in Moneygall, County Offaly, during his visit to Ireland (Photo: Press Association)What one has always to remember, in speeches delivered abroad by statesmen from any democratic country—but especially from America—is that for them their most important audience is back home. President Obama’s performance in the medieval splendours of Westminster Hall, it seems, didn’t go down all that well back in the US of A: his meeting with the Cambridges got more media attention. Certainly, his oratory has often been more compelling; after the jokiness and rabble-rousing of a lot of his speech...

DENVER (AP) - The University of Colorado has dropped its investigation into the American Indian heritage of the professor who came under fire for likening Sept. 11 victims to an infamous Nazi, the professor himself says. A letter from the university dated Friday said a faculty panel decided to drop the matter, Ward Churchill said Monday. "There's no basis to proceed," Churchill quoted the letter as saying, later adding: "It should have never been an issue". "It can be taken as that 'we're not functioning as boards of racial purity with a board of white guys that sit around and...