Casual Cameron Heads To Game With Obama

Prime Minister David Cameron has accompanied Barack Obama on his private plane en route to watch a basketball game in Ohio.
A casual-looking PM - dressed in dark blue jeans and a black polo neck - boarded Air Force One at the start of an official two-day visit to America.
The pair are due to watch the first match of the popular College March Madness tournament, before attending to the serious business of foreign policy.
Earlier the pair pledged to maintain the "essential relationship" between Britain and the US.
Mr Cameron - accompanied by his wife Samantha, Foreign Secretary William Hague and Chancellor George Osborne - touched down in Maryland, America, at just before 6pm.
There was slight embarassment at the airport after observers noticed that marching marines were holding the Union flag upside-down.
The trip is one level below a full state visit, which only the Queen as Britain's head of state is entitled to in America.
The Camerons have been invited by Mr Obama following the president's visit to the UK in May last year.
The two leaders used a joint article in today's Washington Post to stress the warmth of trans-Atlantic relations.
"The alliance between the United States and Great Britain is a partnership of the heart, bound by the history, traditions and values we share," they wrote.
"But what makes our relationship special - a unique and essential asset for our nations and the world - is that we join hands across so many endeavours.
"Put simply, we count on each other and the world counts on our alliance."
During the trip Mrs Cameron will be hosted by America's First Lady Michelle Obama on a series of visits to schools, helping promote her drive to prevent childhood obesity.
Away from the ceremony and symbolism, the agenda will be dominated by foreign policy and economic issues.
The world's failure to prevent the Syrian regime butchering its own people will be one issue the two leaders will need to address.
Events in Afghanistan have also made for a sombre backdrop.
The killing of 16 Afghan civilians by a US soldier is complicating efforts to plan for Nato's withdrawal from the country.
There is also mounting concern in Washington about Iran's nuclear programme and the possibility Israel may launch a unilateral operation to strike its facilities with potentially devastating consequences.
Mr Obama will be grateful for any British help in containing both the Iranian nuclear threat and the possibility of Israel taking matters into its own hands.
Both leaders will seek to exploit the political benefits of the visit.
Mr Obama can profit from arriving in a key election battleground state with a world leader on his wing when the two land in Ohio.
With Europe in serious economic and political trouble, Mr Cameron can highlight his party's assiduous cultivation of a more powerful ally on this side of the Atlantic and stress the economic benefits that brings in these troubled times.
However, the arrest of former News Of The World editor Rebekah Brooks, and her racehorse trainer Charlie, by police investigating phone hacking may cause a headache for the Prime Minister.
He has been friends with Mr Brooks since their schooldays at Eton and recently admitted he rode a horse loaned to Mrs Brooks by the Metropolitan Police.
Mr Cameron and Mr Obama are thought to have a business-like relationship, speaking to each when necessary but avoiding the controversial cosiness Tony Blair shared with George Bush.
But they have plenty in common and a friendship that this visit is likely to deepen.