Hostages 'tortured before beheadings'

American James Foley and other captives held by ISIS were threatened with execution, tortured and starved ahead of their beheadings, report says.



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SpaceX's Dragon splashes down

SpaceX's Dragon spaceship splashed down Saturday in the Pacific Ocean, returning from a four-week resupply mission to the International Space Station and bringing back a valuable payload of potentially groundbreaking experiments.



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Guns not 'someone else's problem'

A child was killed Friday because that child went to school.



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Teen shooting victim identified

The victim of the tragic Washington school shooting has been identified. CNN's Dan Simon reports.



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Soccer captain gunned down

South African soccer captain Senzo Meyiwa was shot and killed in the Vosloorus township near Johannesburg.



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Dilma Rousseff wins runoff vote

CNN's Shasta Darlington reports the results of the closest election Brazil has seen in years.



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UK's Afghan combat mission over

Britain formally ended its combat mission in Afghanistan, lowering the Union Jack for the final time. ITN reports.



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'Hero' teacher stopped rampage

The teenage gunman who opened fire in a high school cafeteria in Washington state last week may have had more victims had it not been for the bold actions of a young teacher.



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Cheers for 'hero' who killed shooter

Kevin Vickers led the procession solemnly, silently. Yet there was noise all around him -- and all for him.



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'Handsome' serial killer confesses

A Brazilian man nicknamed "handsome" serial killer has confessed to 39 murders. CNN's Shasta Darlington reports.



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Israeli military shoots teen

A Palestinian-American teen has been laid to rest after being shot by the Israeli military. CNN's Erin McLaughlin reports.



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Who was gunman who opened fire?

What would spur someone to walk up to a war memorial, fatally shoot a soldier guarding it, then rush into Canada's Parliament and open fire?



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S. African footballer shot dead

South African soccer captain Senzo Meyiwa was shot and killed Sunday night in the Bosloorus township near Johannesburg, according to information posted on the South African Police Service's Twitter account.



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El Clasico: Real Madrid beat Barcelona

Real Madrid ended Barcelona's unbeaten start to the La Liga season with an emphatic 3-1 victory at the Bernabeu in the first El Clasico of the season on Saturday.



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Cream bassist Jack Bruce dies

Jack Bruce, bassist for the legendary 1960s rock band Cream, died Saturday at age 71.



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Daylight Saving Time 'outdated'

Scott Yates says extending Daylight Saving Time could save energy, reduce heart attacks and get you more sleep.



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The art of making money

Legend has it that when the surrealist painter Salvador Dali had to pay for an expensive restaurant meal he would twizzle his famous mustache and arch his eyebrows before beguiling his host into letting him dine for free.



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China warns on 'weird architecture'

The Chinese leadership has called for less "weird architecture" to be built in the country. Does it mean the end of unusual structures like these?



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Link between faith and terrorism?

The tragic murder of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau -- "a recent convert to Islam" as every media outlet in the United States would like to remind you -- has added fuel to the already fiery debate in this country over the inherently violent nature of religion in general, and Islam in particular.



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Zakaria: The problem within Islam

When the news flashed last week that a man had shot and killed a Canadian soldier in front of the National War Memorial in Canada, what most people were wondering -- but not saying out loud -- was, "Is it another radical Muslim?"



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