| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Diana Nyad | | If Diana Nyad never realizes her dream of swimming the Florida straits, it won't be for lack of trying. The 64-year-old says she will begin her fifth and last bid to swim from Cuba to the United States early Saturday. |
| Climbing the world's scariest bridges | | The world's highest bridges don't scare two men who have traveled to some of the scariest on the planet. And sometimes, when nobody's looking, they climb them. |
| After a strike, then what? | | As the United States weighs possible military strikes on Syria in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack, it has to consider a critical question: then what? |
| Al Qaeda's potent force | | Why has the Obama administration been so reluctant to intervene in Syria? There are a host of reasons -- American fatigue with war, President Barack Obama's disinclination to start another conflict in the Middle East, and the splintered, fractured opposition to Bashar al-Assad. |
| U.N. inspectors get out | | U.N. inspectors have left Syria, and Obama's allies and critics are beseeching him to wait for the U.N. report. |
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