(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said on Tuesday that it is investigating a rash of unsolicited graphic images that hit some users’ accounts this week. The images, Internet links and videos depicting pornography and violence have hit some people’s Facebook newsfeeds in recent days. “We experienced a coordinated spam attack that exploited a browser vulnerability,” Facebook [...]

The Middle East and Africa are not the only flashpoints for governmental protests. Three states in the U.S. are the scene of fierce debate over legislation aimed at curtailing the power of labor unions. Thousands of people have gathered in Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, for more than a week to protest a series of [...]

Tokyo (CNN) — The most powerful earthquake to hit Japan in recorded history struck off the island nation’s shore on Friday, collapsing buildings, touching off widespread fires and unleashing walls of water up to 30 feet high. The waves swept across rice fields, engulfed towns, dragged houses onto highways, tossed cars and boats like toys [...]

The tomb of King Tutankhamen, the famed King Tut, will be closed to the public in 2011, the Egyptian government has announced. According to Dr. Zahi Hawass, the head of the country’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, the tomb of Tut is suffering from too much exposure, which has elevated temperatures within the tomb and led [...]

The octopus Paul, which shot to worldwide fame for apparently correctly picking the winner of several games in the 2010 soccer World Cup, is the subject of a memorial. Paul died of natural causes a few months after the World Cup ended. A spokesman for Paul’s current owner, the Sea Life aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany, [...]

Steven Reinberg – If fear of heart disease and diabetes isn’t enough reason to slim down, here’s another: Being overweight or obese can cause rapid deterioration of the cartilage in the knee, leading to osteoarthritis, researchers report. Osteoarthritis usually progresses slowly, but some patients experience a more rapid progression. This is the first study to [...]

What made Larry Brown’s addiction acceptable was that it was, at least on the surface, good for him. He was in his early 40s and running an impressive 50 miles a week. So what if it consumed him, if he thought about it even when his feet weren’t methodically hitting the pavement or carrying him [...]

The Illinois State Board of Education has written out of schools’ yearly requirements one of what many people believe is a fundamental skill: the writing exam. As a consequence, requests by teachers for training in writing instruction have fallen off. Students in 11th grade will still take a writing text, but gone will be the [...]

Philippe Croizon lost both arms and both legs in a horrific accident in 1994. In 2010, he swam across the English Channel. Croizon, 42, of France was standing on a ladder adjusting his TV antenna when the ladder touched a power line. The result was a shock of 20,000 volts of electricity coursing his body. [...]

Pakistan continues to be inundated by flooding and suffering. In the third month of the worst flooding in the country’s history, nearly 17 million acres of prime agricultural land still lie underwater, their potential for producing food growing dimmer with each passing day. That lack of food potential spells a continued grim picture for the [...]

Mark October 16 on your calendar. That’s the date that the Grand Candy factory will hand out pieces of the world’s largest chocolate bar. The bar, made by willing workers to commemorate the company’s 10th anniversary, measures 224 inches long, 110 inches wide, and 10 inches thick. (For those of you who deal in metrics, [...]