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A long, tense week is over for residents of Boston, Massachusetts, and its suburbs, after U.S. law enforcement authorities cornered and captured the second of two suspected Boston Marathon bombers late Friday.

Nineteen-year-old suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is under heavy guard Saturday at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he is in serious condition. The other suspect, his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan, was killed during a shootout with police late Thursday as Dzhokhar fled on foot.

DARPA plans $50 million in 2014 investments to increase understanding of brain function and create new capabilities.

A surge in violence in Iraq is highlighting the security challenges facing the country as it prepares to hold its first election without foreign troop support on Saturday.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs correspondents.

The first major effort to overhaul America’s gun laws in two decades has hit a roadblock in Congress. The Senate voted down a bipartisan proposal to expand background check requirements for firearms purchasers, dealing a severe blow to gun control efforts just four months after a mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.

A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in the southwestern U.S. state of Texas Wednesday evening has injured dozens of people and left an unknown number of people dead.

Internally displaced people in the Central African Republic.