| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Coach Mike Rice fired | | Rutgers fired Rice after a video surfaced showing him shoving players, hurling balls at them and yelling homophobic slurs. |
| North Korea | | North Korea on Wednesday stirred up fresh unease in Northeast Asia, blocking hundreds of South Koreans from entering a joint industrial complex that serves as an important symbol of cooperation between the two countries. |
| 44 killed in 9 hour Afghan firefight | | Insurgents killed at least six people and wounded 72 others in an attack on Afghan government buildings in the southwestern province of Farah on Wednesday, provincial government spokesmen said. |
| WWII bomb | | Bomb disposal experts have successfully disabled a World War II bomb discovered near the main station in the German capital, Berlin, police said Wednesday. |
| Coach Mike Rice | | | A video released by ESPN shows Rutgers University's head basketball coach shoving players, kicking them, hurling balls at their heads and yelling what appears to be homophobic slurs and profanity. |
| School cheating scandal | | The former superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools was among the educators who surrendered to authorities Tuesday after being indicted by a grand jury in a cheating scandal that rocked the district and drew national attention. |
| Pipeline leak | | An Arkansas pipeline spill that coated streets and lawns with a smelly, asphalt-like crude oil provides opponents of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline with new ammunition to combat the project that would bring more of the tar sands bitumen from Canada. |
| WWII bomb found in Berlin | | | Dozens of homes in central Berlin are being evacuated Wednesday as authorities work to disable a World War II bomb discovered near the German capital's main station. |
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