| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | S. Korea to North: Don't provoke us | | South Korea's president today had a tough warning for the North: Korea that any provocative moves will be met with "a strong response." The U.S. has sent F-22 Raptors to the region. FULL STORY |
| Tourist raped on Rio minibus, police say | | A female foreign tourist was kidnapped, raped and robbed on a minibus in Rio de Janeiro, police said, highlighting security concerns in the Brazilian city that will host matches in the 2014 World Cup and will put on the Summer Olympics two years later. |
| Scientist aims to 'repair the brain' | | Ed Boyden tilts his head downward, remaining still except for his eyes, which dart back and forth between blinks for a full 10 seconds. Then, as if coming up for air from the sea of knowledge, he takes a breath, lifts his head back up and begins to speak again. |
| Who is killing prosecutors in Texas? | | Frayed nerves and a palpable tension cloak this quiet Texas county where the FBI, the Texas Rangers and half a dozen other agencies are on the hunt for the killer or killers bent on taking out top criminal justice officials. |
| 9 killed in blast, 3 shot in Iraq | | A suicide bomber drove an oil tanker into a police station in central Tikrit on Monday, killing at least nine people and wounding 20 others, an official with Iraq's interior ministry said. |
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