Two die, 20 fall ill at music festival

Mansfield police said two people died and 45 others were arrested after an electronic music concert at the Comcast Center on Thursday night.

German WWII sub found off Nantucket

After years of research and days of painstaking searches of the ocean floor, a crew discovered a German submarine which sank in April 1944.

2012 summer olympics

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Britain greeted the world Friday with an extravagant celebration that included a tour through the country’s history and popular culture.

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A hologram of US swimmer Ryan Lochte was projected Friday night at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.

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A 60-foot hologram of US sprinter Tyson Gay was also part of the show.

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The images were projected onto a spray of water in front of the ICA.

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The 2012 London Summer Olympics run through August 12.

Red Sox starter Aaron Cook lasted only four innings.

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Red Sox crushed in the Bronx

The Red Sox opened up their three-game road series against the New York Yankees with a 10-3 loss Friday night.

Saturday Preview | G Cover

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Thanks to the soaring popularity of social media, fans of the Olympics will have the opportunity to follow the London Games more comprehensively, and obsessively, than ever before.

saturday preview | editorial

Illegal rooftop grills point to sizzling business opportunity

As the nation’s urban renaissance continues, the grill industry shouldn’t assume that everyone who wants to grill burgers lives in a single-family home.

opinion | is that a fact?

Untruths in the liberal camp

Regardless of conservative bad thinking, liberals have their own blind spots that bear examining.

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From the archives | Photos

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The completion of the Charles River Dam Bridge on June 30, 1910, created the Charles River Basin and gave Boston the waterway that is now integral to our urban experience.

Globe exclusives

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Globe Magazine

The power of the 21st-century mom network
Newport Folk Festival producer Jay Sweet (center) with legendary singer Pete Seeger (left) and the festival’s founder, George Wein.

Sweet gives Newport Folk Festival a distinct flavor
A cat named Snow Shoe peeked out of the port window of her cage at the remodeled shelter in Dedham.

Photo Gallery

Globe photos of the week
The Soul Rebels Brass Band will perform at this weekend’s inaugural Summer Arts Weekend.

Inaugural Summer Arts Weekend loaded with jazz

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Keep up on the latest from the London Olympics

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas

How did ‘Monday’ become a racist slur?
Since Mayor Menino’s letter to Chick-fil-A was posted on Facebook Wednesday, about 140,000 people have “liked” it.

Mayor Menino clarifies Chick-fil-A stance
Bluegrass singer Sierra Hull.

Sierra Hull brings bluegrass back to Boston
A look at three of the medalists in 1948, when London last hosted the Summer Olympics.

Bob Ryan

In ‘48, London Olympics had different challenges

High court cautions Patrick on 3 strikes law
A rehearsal for “Paragon Park the Musical.”

Reconstructing Paragon Park for a musical

Roland Merullo

An unaffordable future

Sports

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Where’s Wally? Sox mascot found after brief search

A misunderstanding led a security officer at Fenway to report the theft of the Red Sox mascot costume this afternoon.

Metro

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While Elizabeth Warren recently gave her views on gun rights, Scott Brown has a 12-year record in the Legislature and more than two years in the US Senate.

Brown opposes, Warren supports renewing assault weapons ban

The deadly shooting in ­Colorado has thrust the debate about gun control into the Senate race.

Columnists

Boston Capital

Online retailers pressed to collect sales taxes

Brian McGrory

Mitt Romney, lost in translation
A look at three of the medalists in 1948, when London last hosted the Summer Olympics.

Bob Ryan

In ‘48, London Olympics had different challenges

Yvonne Abraham

Future Boston breaks the Menino rule

opinion | joan vennochi

Real Lives bill would empower people with disabilities
Tom Brady and the Patriots are back to begin another training camp.

Dan Shaughnessy

Patriots camp brings thoughts of another Super Bowl

Tech Lab

The smartphone as a spending tool

edward l. glaeser

Bad laws are no cure for outsourcing
Mourners embraced at the memorial built across the street from the theater where the Colorado shootings took place.

opinion | derrick z. jackson

Start the conversation on guns

Jeff Jacoby

The rush to politicize a tragedy

Brian McGrory

Silence no way to fight guns
An employee helps a customer at a gun shop in Fort Worth, Texas.

Opinion | Farah Stockman

Acceptable risk

Business

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Karen Stein of GOODGOOD, a design studio, created a mock-up of an micro-apartment unit for a 20-story tower that broke ground in the Seaport District Thursday.

Boston, developers betting tiny Seaport apartments will be a big thing

With units as small as 450 square feet, the apartments fit the call for more affordable housing for young professionals who want to live near work and attractions.

Politics

Brown gives view on Chick-fil-A controversy

Senator Scott Brown said today he disagreed with anti-gay marriage comments made by the company’s president, but did not address whether the chain should open in Boston.

Nation & World

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Timothy Brown, known as the Berlin patient, is the only known person cured of HIV.

Researchers report hopeful HIV treatment

Two HIV-positive patients in Boston who underwent bone marrow transplants for cancer were later found to have undetectable blood levels of the virus.

Arts

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Stage Review

Kylend Hetherington (Billy) and the cast of “Billy Elliot the Musical.”

Pirouettes and punch in ‘Billy Elliot the Musical’

The young protagonist makes the life-changing discovery that he has a gift for dance.

Movies

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From left, Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller, Richard Ayoade and Vince Vaughn star in

‘The Watch’ is a bad movie with bad timing

The studio pulled back marketing after the Trayvon Martin incident, but they should have just canned the whole thing.

“My mom said on ‘60 Minutes’, he’s going to Rio. I said, yeah, we’ll go and watch.”

Michael Phelps,  on the 2016 Olympics

Magazine

The cover for the July 22 2012 issue

25 best burgers around Boston
The cover for the July 15 2012 issue

12 Bostonians Changing the World
The cover for the July 8 2012 issue

N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
The cover for the June 24 2012 issue

A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset

Opinion

“No political system is irrevocable, especially one that throttles the expression of the people’s wishes.”

Thomas Gagen 

Ideas

“On the fringes of American politics, on conservative radio, and even on the campaign trail, a whole parallel Obama has emerged over the course of the 2012 race—a shadowy figure who has craftily concealed his ideological extremism and is merely awaiting his second term to unleash it.”

Leon Neyfakh