| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Pope Benedict says final goodbyes | | When night falls over Vatican City, there will be no pope. Benedict's resignation takes effect at 8 p.m. local time, 2 p.m. ET. The Vatican hopes to select a new pope by Easter. |
| Lethal mice to rain down on snakes | | If you're a brown tree snake, those dead rodents that will soon be falling from the sky over Guam's Andersen Air Force Base could be your last meal. |
| Opinion: Rebrand the Church | | Tim Stanley says the next pope is going to have to move a church beset by many problems beyond them, and reinvigorate Catholicism for the 21st century |
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