| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Why Olympians bite their medals | | It's a familiar pose by now: Fresh-faced Olympian grins while pretending to take a bite from the hard-won gold medal hanging around his neck. |
| Memorial for temple victims | | Mourners gathered at a memorial service for the six Sikh worshippers shot to death Sunday at their Wisconsin temple. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke, calling the killings "a hate crime." |
| Panoramic view of Mars | | Mars rover Curiosity beamed back a sweeping color panorama of the planet's surface Thursday, showing the rocky, reddish desert surrounding it and the mountain it will explore in the coming months. |
| Huge sinkhole opens in Louisiana | | Louisiana officials are investigating whether an underground salt cavern may be responsible for a large sinkhole that has swallowed 100-foot-tall cypress trees and prompted evacuations in a southern Louisiana bayou. |
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