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The Girls Around Me iPhone app, developed by Moscow-based company iFree, is a stalker's dream, and should be a wake-up call for appropriate privacy settings on Facebook. The app has been around since December, but it's avoided the radar so far, buried in the hundreds of thousands of apps in Apple's App Store, until Cult of Mac brought it to light.

A Chinese graduate was said to be involved in attacks that were linked to Japan, India and Tibet. Trend Micro released the research paper, which unveiled details on the hacker.

The competition among major vendors in the tablet market has heated up with the launch of Apple's new iPad.

Keith Olbermann has been fired by Current TV -- less than a year after Olbermann was hired as lead anchor. Effective immediately, his show will be replaced by Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer.

A new account of Osama bin Laden's life on the run after the September 11, 2001 attacks reveals that the al Qaeda leader spent nine years moving through a series of safe-houses in Pakistan, not hiding in the mountains on the Pakistan-Afghan border as previously believed.

Japan said Friday it will shoot down a long-range rocket North Korea plans to launch next month if it flies over any part of its territory, the defense minister said.

Two studies published on Thursday may finally explain the alarming decline in U.S. bee populations over the last six years.

Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate who has helped sustain Newt Gingrich's campaign with millions of dollars in donations, suggested that Gingrich's campaign was essentially over.

Union workers held a general 24 hour strike across Spain Thursday to protest austerity cuts, labor reforms, and its record 23 percent unemployment rate.

An Iranian organization called the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, considered a terrorist organization by the United States, is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to former American officials and politicians. But where is the money coming from?

A class action lawsuit seeking a preliminary injunction against the military detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act will be heard in a New York federal court.

Adrienne Rich, a leading American poet and advocate of women's and gay liberation, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif., her family said. She was 82.

Less than four years ago, American Internet security firm Symantec struck a deal with Chinese infrastructure equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies, joining forces to develop computer network security products. However, in the wake of increasing cyber security concerns piling up against Huawei, Symantec decided to exit the venture, fearing that it would prevent it from gaining access to U.S. government classified information regarding cyber threats.

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Al-Jazeera said on Tuesday that it will not show the video it obtained of the attacks on French soldiers, Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi.

New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin will miss his first game Monday night against the Milwaukee Bucks due to a knee injury.

The Knicks host the Bucks at the Garden.

NYPD has released surveillance footage of the L Train subway fight that ended up killing 20-year-old college student Joshua Basin. Basin was confronted by a man, presumed to be in his thirties, following a verbal dispute on Friday night at the Bedford Avenue station in Brooklyn.

The United States and Turkey are formulating a plan to send non-lethal aid to Syria's embattled dissidents, a White House deputy national security adviser told reporters in Seoul on Sunday.

Even as Americans are divided by partisan lines, more than three-quarters say the Supreme Court justices' political beliefs will influence their decision when ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

The federal regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is arguing that principal reductions for home loans would benefit the banks that hold secondary debt while weakening the mortgage giants' finances.

A GOP presidential candidate is lashing out at the media, and it's not Newt Gingrich.

The U.S. military has officially charged Sgt. Robert Bales with the murder of 17 Afghan civilians, including an unborn baby of one of the victims. With the inclusion of the unborn baby in the dead list, the tally went up to 17, though Afghan officials had reported only 16 deaths initially.

The Hunger Games reigned champion its opening weekend, snagging a whopping $155 million in ticket sales, according to an estimate by Lions Gate reported by E! News.

With political pressures mounting, talk about the release of the strategic oil reserves has come back. Will the President decide to release the country's reserves in a last gasp effort to stem the gas price spike? And if he does, what kind of impact will it have on prices?

Greg Smith -- the former executive at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. who put a new spin on the old letter of resignation with his "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs" op-ed article in the New York Times on March 14 -- apparently would like to amplify on his remarks in book form, according to the newspaper.

Rumors of factory closings swirl around General Motors Co.'s German subsidy Opel, even as the company leads the way in sales of its electric Ampera, the European version of the Chevy Volt.

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, the former president of Somalia and a controversial leader, dies at the age of 77.

General Motors Co. will invest more than $1 billion into its Australian subsidy Holden Ltd. for manufacturing and next-generation development with the support of a hotly debated 275 million AUD, $285 million, subsidy from the Australian government.