Ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi remains in hiding and continues to draw massive online interest. Also huge on the Web over the past several weeks: his family.
According to Algerian diplomats, Gadhafi's wife, three of his children, and several of his grandchildren have fled to Algeria, west of Libya. And while official news is understandably scant regarding the Gadhafi clan's specific movements and activities, some bits of information have
The international group of hackers known as Anonymous began a cyber attack on a website of the San Francisco subway, in retaliation for the agency's bid to shut down cellphone service to limit a protest over a fatal shooting.
As of late Sunday the main website for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) was still functioning, but the San Francisco Chronicle and other media reported the hackers had defaced a related
OTTAWA - Hackers attacked the website of a prominent Canadian newspaper early on Tuesday and posted a false news item alleging Quebec Premier Jean Charest had died of a heart attack, the paper said.
The fake entry remained on the site of the Le Devoir paper for more than an hour and was repeated by users on the Twitter micro blogging system before engineers were able
A false Internet security certificate has been used in an apparent attempt to snoop on Google users in Iran, according to the Internet search giant and computer security firms.
A Dutch company, DigiNotar, which issues the Internet security credentials known as SSL certificates, said on Tuesday that it had revoked the "fraudulent certificate" in question.
SSL certificates are used to verify to visitors that a particular website is authentic and are
Humans might not be living on Mars or the moon anytime soon, but scientists might have just overcome one major hurdle on the route to interplanetary habitation: electricity.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory have designed a suitcase-sized nuclear plant that can power up to eight normal-sized homes. Thanks to its size and durability, the plant can provide
Last week's crash of a Russian cargo spacecraft could delay the first-ever private mission to the International Space Station, according to NASA officials.
Space Exploration Technologies — better known as SpaceX — is planning to launch its Dragon capsule toward the orbiting lab on Nov. 30, with a historic docking slated for nine days later. But as a result of the Aug. 24 crash of the unmanned Russian Progress 44 supply ship, there might not be any
Mexico plans to administer the vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer, to all girls beginning next year, the country's health ministry said Tuesday.
Beginning in 2012, the HPV vaccine will be part of the normal course of shots given to all girls at the age of nine, Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said.
Cervical cancer kills about 4,200 women in Mexico each year.The minister said while deaths from cervical cancer had fallen 47 percent in the country over the past two decades, there was still 13.4 cases for every 100,000 women last year.
Mexican health authorities hope that by making the HPV vaccine universal, they can cut the
WASHINGTON — Pilots' "automation addiction" has eroded their flying skills to the point that they sometimes don't know how to recover from stalls and other mid-flight problems, say pilots and safety officials. The weakened skills have contributed to hundreds of deaths in airline crashes in the last five years.Some 51 "loss of control" accidents occurred in which planes stalled in flight or got into
LONDON - Violence escalated across London and at least three other cities Tuesday as police fought thousands of rioters and looters and Prime Minister David Cameron headed back to Britain to face the crisis.
In unprecedented scenes of rioting in the capital, buildings were in flames in Croydon, Peckham and Lewisham in the city's south, while gangs of looters roamed the streets of Hackney in the east, Clapham in the south, Camden in the north and Ealing in the west.
Scotland Yard said it
A British woman has labelled her unemployed son as useless and pleaded with him to stop having babies with lots of women.Jamie Cumming, 34, is awaiting the arrival of his 15th child with his 13th lover - a 19-year-old woman - the Daily Mail has reported.
"I love Jamie and I love all of my grandchildren, but enough is enough," Lorraine Cumming, 55, told The People.
Ms Cumming said her son needed to find a job so he
A high school teacher has been charged with raping a 16-year-old male student and filming it.Tara Driscoll, 33, was arrested after police found a tape which allegedly showed her performing sex acts on the 16-year-old boy, the Daily Mail reported.
The student at Campus Magnet High School in Cambria Heights, Queens had admitted having sex with the teacher after his mother confronted him.
The mother then called police, who were able to seize the alleged video.
Driscoll has been charged with third-degree rape and third-degree criminal sexual act.
In New York, the age of consent is 17.
Driscoll had been a teacher at the school for five years, and was reassigned to non-classroom duties when the allegations first surfaced in May.
Prosecutors have alleged Driscoll had a history of alcohol abuse and had a recent stint in rehab.
After managing to stay out of the spotlight for most of their lives, the Schwarzenegger kids were suddenly swarmed with media attention during the demise of their parents' marriage earlier this year, when it was revealed that their dad, former California Governor Arnold
A hacker group known as Anonymous have said they will "kill" Facebook on November 5, in retaliation to what it calls a breach of privacy.
The most popular social media site in the world - Facebook has over 500 million registered users - has been selling information to government agencies and given access to information security firms to allow them to "spy on people", the hacker group
Sure, Michele Bachmann might look a wee bit scary on the Newsweek cover that launched a thousand blogs.
Liberal bias? Maybe. But I've seen that gaze -- like the one my dog has when there's a deer in the yard -- in her own campaign material. And maybe the "queen of rage" thing was a bit much as a cover line. But she does seem pretty upset.
To all those right-thinking Republicans lamenting
A 100-m.p.h police chase in Colorado Wednesday morning has resulted in three fugitive siblings from Florida being taken into custody, after the FBI has been combing the country for the trio since Aug. 2.
Lee Grace Dougherty, 29, Ryan Edward Dougherty, 21, and half brother Dylan Dougherty Stanley, 26 – referred to as the "Dougherty Gang" – crashed their car and were apprehended, Charlene Graham, bureau chief for law enforcement with the Pueblo
Australia-- Weight loss improves the sexual health of obese men with type 2 diabetes, a new study finds.Australian researchers placed 31 obese men with type 2 diabetes on either a meal replacement-based low-calorie diet or a low-fat, high-protein, reduced-carbohydrate diet meant to decrease calorie intake by 600 calories a day.
A modest weight loss of 5 percent led to an easing of erectile dysfunction and improved sexual desire within eight weeks, and these
Ever since Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux came out to the public as an item, we've been watching them like a hawk, and that's mainly because we want to see
Saucedo, who earns $9.70 an hour for about 26 hours a week and lives with her mother, is one of the many Americans who survive because of government handouts in what has rapidly become a food stamp nation.
Altogether, there are now almost 46 million people in the United States on food stamps, roughly 15 percent of the population. That's an increase of 74 percent since 2007, just before the financial crisis and a deep recession
The 28-year-old woman was having sex with a British man on a bathroom sink aboard the yacht when the sink broke, severing her hand when she fell, the Croatian Times reported.
Police from the island of Hvar said the woman's hand was
reattached during a six hour operation by surgeons in Split.
"It appears they were engaged in a passionate act in the bathroom where at some stage the sink broke -- leaving a jagged edge
Since then, the two children have been exchanging emails and plan to become pen pals, West Hawaii Today reported.
Thomas Craig, now 11, of Silverton Ore., told the newspaper he hadn't thought much about his message in the bottle
he threw into Winchester Bay during a family fishing trip until he recently received an email
illegal Internet connections on the island, state media reported on Friday.Gross, 62, was jailed in December 2009, when he was working as a subcontractor on a U.S. Agency for International Development project aimed at spreading democracy and deemed illegal by
urgent talks this Monday. The visit followed swiftly on the heels of yet another round of diplomatic squabbling between Washington and Islamabad.
During a heated summer of disutes, tensions between the ISI and the CIA flared most
News Ltd newspapers report that the woman was injured when a glass light fitting above the bed fell as she was having sex with
a man in 2007.
She suffered injuries to her nose, mouth and a tooth, and "a consequent psychiatric injury".
The woman had been sent to a country town to stay the night ahead of a meeting early the next day.
News Lt report her lawyers argue that she
Pelosi issued a statement Sunday night calling on the Republican-led House’s “Ethics Committee to initiate an
In September 2008, Sarah’s 17-year-old daughter Bristol announced that she was five months pregnant while her mother continued
The oxygen molecules were detected in a star-forming region of the Orion nebula, roughly 1,500 light-years from Earth, by the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory.
The observatory used its large telescope and infrared detectors to hone in on the species, which is thought to be common in the cosmos, but has so far been
TEHRAN, -- The attorney representing two U.S. hikers jailed as spies in Iran said he was "hopeful ... authorities will show mercy" and release his clients soon.
Lawyer Masoud Shafiee told CNN Sunday it could be days or months before he receives a response to the appeal he filed on behalf of Shawn Bauer and Josh Fattal.
"However, I am hopeful that because of the holy month of Ramadan, and because my clients are innocent, the authorities will show mercy and release Shawn Bauer and Josh Fattal in a few days," he said.
Fattal, Bauer and Sarah Shourd were apprehended by Iranian authorities on July 31, 2009 while hiking in the Iraqi Kurdish region. They allegedly crossed into Iran illegally and were accused of being spies. Shourd was released for medical reasons last year.
Earlier this month, the men were sentenced to eight years in prison each; five years for espionage and three years for illegally entering the county.
Al Qaeda's second-in-command killed in Pakistan by U.S. drone Washington now believes terror network is on brink of defeat
A senior US official said Rahman was killed in tribal Waziristan on August 22 after being deeply involved in directing operations for Al Qaeda. The official did not divulge the exact circumstances of his death.
Local officials in the tribal region last week said a US drone strike on August 22 on a
It will be the first marriage for Humphries and the second for Kardashian, who was married to
The Food and Drug Administration approved Seattle Genetics' Adcetris to treat two types of relatively rare
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American Association of University Professors expresses concern over Dept. of Education’s New Mandates
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Thursday expressed concern to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights over the sexual harassment guidance the department issued to colleges in April.
In a letter to Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education, AAUP explained that while the organization has been pleased with the government’s push to reduce gender
VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (AP) — President Barack Obama says his low approval rating is a reflection of public unhappiness with Congress.Obama tells CBS in an interview broadcast Sunday that he's "impacted," just like Congress, when people aren't happy with Washington.
He says he understands that his arguments that the country would have been
BERLIN - It's not hard to come up with reasons for the euro zone's exasperating inability to get a grip on its debt crisis.There's the German government's reluctance to take the bold steps that seem necessary to bring about a change in market sentiment toward Europe's single currency project.
There's the incessant public squabbling between the
NEW YORK - Prosecutors will ask a judge to dismiss all charges in the sexual assault case against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a court hearing on Tuesday, the New York Post reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources.
The Manhattan district attorney's office will file a motion recommending the case be dropped and laying out the chronology of events that led to that point, according to the Post.
Strauss-Kahn, who has denied the allegations, was once seen as a leading contender to be president of France until a
WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday said President Barack Obama would unveil fresh ideas to jump-start the economy and cut deficits, but details offered so far appeared to be a compilation of old proposals.
Obama faces serious doubts among Americans about his economic leadership and
Obama faces serious doubts among Americans about his economic leadership and
Stocks were only part of a dramatic day across the financial markets. The price of oil fell more than $5, gold set another record, the government's
