Yankees 9, Tigers 3

Yankees pounce on Tigers

Robinson Cano hit a grand slam and drove in six runs as the New York Yankees shook off a 23-hour rain delay to beat the Tigers 9-3 Saturday night.

Magazine

The science of laughter

Can you dissect a sense of humor? I went to an academic humor conference to find out — and all I got for it was this broken funny bone.

Rob Anderson

The gay app that veered straight

The implication of the Grindr mobile app is that for millions of men around the world, the thin line between reality and virtual reality vanished.

Despite protests, St. Jeremiah Catholic Church is sold

Parishioners had conducted vigils after the closing of the Framingham church in 2005, but the archdiocese completed the sale for $2 million in an effort to raise money.

COLIN BARRACLOUGH FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Travel

Beauty and beasts

In the wake of a dramatic fall in political violence in Colombia, tourists now have the chance to appreciate the country’s beauty — quirks and all.

Battles keeps building its success

Battles, performing at Royale, has revealed itself slowly over the years but experimentation and songcraft produce results for the elite new music trio.

99 Bottles

Fall brings out the pumpkin flavor in ales

The popularity of pumpkin beers has exploded over the past few years. Here are four new local pumpkin beers and four of the most renowned.

Zdeno Chara and the Bruins return to the ice as champions this season.

On Hockey

As champs, Bruins still face many serious questions

The most obvious place in need of help is the power play. But the loss of several key veterans also could be draining.

Metro

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Gloucester icon slips into history

After decades of felling hordes of sure-footed men at the Saint Peter’s Fiesta every June, Gloucester’s famed Greasy Pole plunged into the chilly waters off Pavilion Beach Thursday night.

World

Anwar al-Awlaki, a leading Al Qaeda figure, was shown this 2008 photo taken in Yemen, where he died in a US attack yesterday.

Drone attack kills US-born cleric linked to Al Qaeda

Many details of the strike were unclear, but one US official said that Anwar al-Awlaki had been identified as the target in advance and was killed with a Hellfire missile.

Arts

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Battles keeps building its success

Battles, performing at Royale, has revealed itself slowly over the years but experimentation and songcraft produce results for the elite new music trio.

Opinion

“One woman in New Hampshire told me she didn’t mind that (Mitt) Romney had flip-flopped on issues, so long as he’d flipped to positions she liked.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“To become a citizen of a nation is a choice that involves more sacrifice and pain than tearing down the sculpture of a dictator.”

Gal Beckerman