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It is not unreasonable to declare that Brian Epstein, the fifth Beatle, according to Paul McCartney, was one of the key global figures of the post-World War II era. Although he had a complicated and troubled relationship with McCartney and John Lennon, he turned them -- both rowdy and rebellious youths -- and their two partners into cultural icons.

The Committee to Protect Journalists' latest report reveals that speaking truth to power, or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, still costs hundreds of journalists their lives.

France, Turkey and the U.S. are mulling the possibility of creating a limited no-fly zone over part of Syria.

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A top Syrian said Tuesday the government is prepared to discuss the exit of President Bashar al-Assad, but his resignation cannot be a precondition for talks.

Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 PC maker, reported second-quarter results that missed analyst?s estimates. Worse, the company said it expected third-quarter performance to fall below expectations.

Controversial film directors Michael Moore and Oliver Stone joined forces to pen an op-ed Monday in The New York Times in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's effort to seek political asylum in Ecuador.

Russia and China have repeatedly rejected moves by the United Nations Security Council to pressure Bashar al-Assad.

Dell is scheduled to report second-quarter results Tuesday below last year?s. For the first time, the company founded by Chairman Michael S. Dell nearly 30 years ago in a dorm room will be ranked No. 3 in PC sales, having lost its No. 2 ranking last quarter to China?s Lenovo Group.

Russian punk band Pussy Riot released a new song lambasting Russian President Vladimir Putin after being found guilty and sentenced to two years in jail on charges of ?hooliganism driven by religious hatred.? Authorities are searching for the band?s remaining members while outraged bold-faced names continued to voice their support for the group.

Most collectors claim they are simply military historians, and not neo-Nazis.

European rabbis as well as Israel?s Minister of Public Diplomacy have criticized Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) for publishing and selling an Arabic-language app of ?The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,? probably the best-known anti-Semitic forgery.

Though he denies it today, presumptive Republican Party vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan?s primary economic and fiscal influence was Ayn Rand, an extremely conservative thinker whose flawed economic and social theories were only outdone in perniciousness by her utter disregard for society and the common good.

On Friday, three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" after performing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral. In support of the band, a topless women's rights activist defiantly chopped down an Orthodox cross in Kiev, Ukraine.

Madonna is being sued for $10 million by the Trade Union of Russian Citizens -- a pro-Kremlin activist organization -- for "damaging the cultural foundations of St. Petersburg," according to the Russian website RT.com.

Despite a speech from Madonna earlier in August condemning the way the LGBT community in Russia is treated, a Moscow court upheld a ban on gay pride parades in the Russian capital for the next century.

Three female members of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were convicted of hooliganism on Friday "based on motives of religious hatred and enmity," according to Judge Marina Syrova in Moscow. The trial was one of the most hotly debated Russian trials in recent years. Syrova is withholding sentences for the three women until later Friday, but state prosecutors, not to mention Russian President Vladimir Putin, have asked for a three-year prison sentence. The maximum sentence, under Russ...

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Continued violence across Syria has made it almost impossible for the mission to remain.

Sir Paul McCartney has thrown his substantial artistic credibility behind Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot, joining a long list of musicians vocally supporting the band as it stands trial for staging an anti-Putin protest in Moscow.