| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Fueled by her friend's final words | | A Kurdish female fighter battles for the scorched Earth of Kobani and the honor of a friend who died rather than be captured. "Girls are very prized by ISIS. She blew herself up. She killed a lot of them." |
| Detained woman ISIS leader's wife? | | A woman held by Lebanese authorities is not the wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraq's Interior Ministry said Wednesday, injecting further confusion into an already murky situation. |
| Photographer's last images | | A cluster of innocent eyes gaze up at a light shining above them. Packed inside a bunker along with jars of pickled beets and other provisions, they look like cherubs searching the sky for answers to their plight. |
| Reuniting soldiers with stray dogs | | Pen Farthing, a former sergeant in the Royal Marines, is reuniting soldiers with the stray dogs they befriended while serving in Afghanistan. |
| Assad: U.S. strikes cause no change | | Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a French magazine that "there haven't been any tangible" signs that U.S.-led airstrikes in his country have weakened ISIS, despite assertions Wednesday by America's top diplomat that "significant progress" has been made in derailing the Islamist extremist group. |
| Tonight in Texas: An atrocity | | On Wednesday night, barring an intervention of common decency, common sense and common compassion, the state of Texas will execute a man who scarcely comprehends who he is, let alone the reason why he will be put to death. |
| Confiscated at the airport | | An elephant leg as a trash can. A crocodile skin for a bathroom carpet. A bear skin to help a man project power in the bedroom. |
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