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Fifty years ago this week, the Beatles met their future rivals, the Rolling Stones. John McMillian, author of the forthcoming "Beatles vs. Stones" from Simon & Schuster, describes the encounter: "I suddenly turn around: there's these four guys in black leather overcoats standing there. 'Oh f--- me! Look who's here!'"

For some, faith becomes a weapon found online, on the World Wide Web – that mix of modern technique and belligerent enmities.

Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, was taken into custody, police said Friday evening.

Human rights groups and members of Guatemala's Ixil indigenous community are outraged by a judge's order on Thursday to annul an historic genocide trial against former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt.

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Close Chávez allies including presidents Raúl Castro of Cuba and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran attended the inauguration.

UPDATE: Boston Police has second suspect in custody. "The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won." Police Twitted at 6:55 pm.

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"It was like a nuclear bomb went off," West, Texas, mayor told CNN.