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Honduras Claims Unwanted Title Of World's Murder Capital

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Members of the 18th Street gang announce a truce during a press conference at a prison in San Pedro Sula, on May 28. The gang is involved in drug trafficking that has brought terror to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

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Members of the Calle 18 street gang look out from their cell at the prison in San Pedro Sula. The prison houses the country's most violent criminals.

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Confiscated weapons lie on a couch after the arrest of several members of the 18th Street gang after a shootout with police and military during an anti-drug operation in San Pedro Sula, on March 27. San Pedro Sula, the country's second-largest city after the capital, Tegucigalpa, has a homicide rate of 169 per 100,000 people and was named the world's most violent city for a second year in a row.

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A man reacts as a doctor treats his wounds after he had been attacked by a gang in San Pedro Sula, on March 28.

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Relatives of Carlos Pineda, 30, cry over his dead body after he was shot in the head and spent an agonizing day at the emergency room of a public hospital in San Pedro Sula, on March 25.

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A woman cries near the body of the Justiniano Lara, 51, after he was killed by unidentified assailants in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on March 25. With 91 murders per 100,000 people, the small Central American nation is the most violent in the world, and San Pedro Sula the most violent city.

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Members of the 18th Street gang announce a truce during a press conference at a prison in San Pedro Sula on May 28.

By Carrie Kahn

Originally published on Thu June 13, 2013 4:53 am

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Latin America is riddled with crime, and no place is more violent than Honduras. It has just 8 million people, but with as many as 20 people killed there every day, it now has the highest murder rate in the world.

It would be easy to blame drug trafficking. Honduras and its Central American neighbors have long served as a favored smuggling corridor for South American cocaine headed north to the U.S.

11:38 pm

Tue June 11, 2013

Boards Of Canada Tap A Devout Following To Push New Album

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Boards of Canada's new album is titled Tomorrow's Harvest.

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Originally published on Thu June 13, 2013 4:53 am

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9:03 pm

Tue June 11, 2013

Basketball: The 'Ultimate Contradiction'

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In basketball, as in life, we may dutifully celebrate the aggregate, but we're always spellbound by the exceptional.

By Frank Deford

Originally published on Thu June 13, 2013 4:53 am

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Basketball offers its fans the ultimate contradiction. On the one hand, it's the sport that most depends on its stars. On the other, it's the most intimate — even organic — of all the team games, with its players more fundamentally involved with one another. Both of these opposing realities are rooted in the same base.

6:35 am

Tue June 11, 2013

Hillary Clinton Sends Her First Tweet

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Hillary's first two followers were Bill and Chelsea. She hasn't posted much yet but her Twitter bio is getting lots of attention. Clinton describes herself as wife, mom, hair icon, glass ceiling cracker and pantsuit aficionado.

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6:32 am

Tue June 11, 2013

Holiday Inn In North London Hopes To Horrify Guests

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To promote the horror film Mama, the hotel has received a gory makeover. Rooms have blood soaked sheets and scary graffitti.

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Wed June 12, 2013