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The German State of Schleswig-Holstein has imposed a ban on clicking the Facebook “Like” button and has said state institutions should remove it from their Web sites or face a fine.

Peter Thiel, PayPal cofounder and an initial investor in Facebook, and a gay libertarian, is investing in what he calls his most ambitious project: Creation of artificial libertarian islands in international waters, free from international laws, regulations or moral codes.

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein has ordered all government offices to remove the Facebook's Like button from their Web presence and shut down all Fan pages, stating that these things violate German and European data privacy laws reported Cnet News.

The state of Schleswig-Holstein released a statement saying Facebook's Like button violates some of Germany's privacy and data collection laws.

Answers in Genesis, the Christian ministry behind the Creation Museum, is set to build a new theme park called The Ark Encounter, that will feature a life-sized wooden Noah's Ark replica.

Facebook and Twitter were busy Tuesday night buzzing around a death hoax of Jackie Chan.And it's not the first time we hear the world's most famous martial arts actor may have died. Chan was rumored to be dead in March, and here comes his death hoax of August 2011.

Mourners from around the world will pay their last respects this weekend to Dr. Zachery Tims, Jr., the founder and senior pastor of one of Florida's most largest churches.

A tribute service and a public viewing for Pastor Zachery Tims will be held Friday at the New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Fla., the church announced on its Web site. The public viewing is between 3 and 7 p.m., while the tribute will follow at 7 p.m. and end at 9 p.m. A funeral service will take place the next day at the First Baptist Church of Orlando, where there will be a viewing from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare walked out of jail Friday, hailed by a huge crowd, to carry on his fast after the government caved in to mass protests across the country

Google has launched its new music blog, Magnifier, as it attempts to make music discovery easy and introduce the company’s newest music marketing policy.

Facebook finally has a serious competitor. At least, that's what social-media investor Sergio Monsalve thinks.

The increase of violent flash mobs in the United States is proving that technology is a double-edged sword. Mass communication and social networking are connecting people across the world, but sometimes to the detriment of society.

A public memorial and funeral was schedule to be held this week after the body of mega-church pastor Zachery Tims Jr. was found in a hotel in New York, but family members have revised the plans.

Facebook Inc has won access to computers, files and emails it hopes will prove an upstate New York man's claim to own half of founder Mark Zuckerberg's stake in the world's largest social networking company is a fraud.

Looks like Warren might be thinking about it for 2012.

Nicolette French, a friend of Jared Cano, the 17-year-old boy accused of planning an attack on a Florida high school, told MyFoxTampaBay.com that the suspect told her that he aspired to another Columbine. The girl described Cano as kind of off and said that he sporadically talked about news that there was another Columbine thing going on at Tampa Bay Tech, or one of those other schools, MyFoxTampaBay.com reported.

Autopsy results on Rev. Zachery Tims have turned up inconclusive, authorities say, extending the mystery surrounding the untimely death even further.

A public memorial is schedule to be held this week after the body of mega-church pastor Zachery Tims Jr. was found in a hotel in New York.

The United States has already tied its full-year record for storm damage -- with more than $35 billion in damage from tornadoes, floods and heat waves -- the National Weather Service said, and there are still 4 1/2 months left in 2011, including hurricane season.

Tough prison sentences such as four years for trying to organize a riot via Facebook have triggered alarm in Britain that the government's crackdown over last week's unrest may be too harsh.

It started as a simple trend: Planking. A game where a person lies down in the most obscure and dangerous places and then uploads their pictures onto the internet. From planking grew the phenomenon of " Owling," where people perch like owls on objects such as stair rails, statues, roofs in what seemed to be a slightly harder game. Just as people started running out of creative " planking" and "Owling" photos a new community page has been launched on Facebook; Plowling.

Move over planking, owling, plowling, and leisure diving, there's a new photo fad sweeping Facebook called horsemaning.

Tampa police arrested an expelled student who they suspected was preparing to carry out a catastrophic attack on a Tampa High School after bomb-making materials were found in his home.

Protests swelled across India on Wednesday in support of a self-styled Gandhian anti-corruption campaigner fasting to the death in jail, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's struggling government at a loss over how to end the standoff.

He made his name on the quirky fast food documentary "Super Size Me," and recently peered inside the wacky world of product placement in movies.

For the second time, rumors on Twitter suggested that martial arts actor Jackie Chan is dead.

Two men who were issued a 4-year jail sentence for using Facebook to incite riots in England last week are to appeal their punishment.

Flash mobs are increasing -- and becoming increasingly dangerous and frightening. Why is this phenomenon happening, and how can it be stopped?

New research from Global Web Index shows sharp declines among Facebook users in some of the world's biggest markets including the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.