VALENTINES DAY

For Avalanna Routh, a six-year-old diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called AT/RT, meeting Justin Bieber for Valentine's Day 2012 meant making all her dreams come true. And on Feb. 13, the pop star decided to make that dream a reality, treating Routh to a Valentine's Day date in Manhattan that she would never forget.

Half of American adults know someone who found love online, and while the Internet plays a more important role than before in starting relationships it is also a forum for cheating and lies that ends them, according to a survey released on Monday.

On Tuesday, Feb. 14, police in Malaysian city of Petaling Jaya and other parts of the country raided a number of hotels and arrested more than 80 people for being alone with a member of the opposite sex.

If you're going to be on either end of a kiss this Valentine's Day, you might want to consider smooching bare-lipped. Most lipstick contains lead.

People in Uzbekistan have been forced to replace Valentine's Day with the birth anniversary of Moghul emperor Babur, which falls on the same day.

Hacker collective Anonymous has taken down a number of Web sites on Tuesday, including that of the Bahrain government and the U.S. maker of teargas used on protesters in Bahrain last month.

Emirati marriage counselor, author and ultra-conservative Muslim Widad Lootah has urged Muslim and Arab women to embrace love and love-making on the eve of Valentine's Day, it has been reported.

Tech blog Engadget is giving away five free Nokia Lumia 710 smartphones for Valentine's Day 2012, and if you want the gift deal, here's what you need to do. Go to the Engadget Web site and leave a comment on the contest page. Winners will be chosen at random, and it doesn't matter what you post in the comments. The catch is, you have to be 18, and the phones only run on the T-Mobile network, service not included. So, you get a free phone and then pony up for the data plan and contract.

While Valentine's Day has always been sure to disappoint lonely hearts, this year's festivities also may dishearten the retailers used to sweetheart sales during the period, various economic indicators suggest.

It's easy to scurry out and buy a box of chocolates or bouquet as a last minute Valentine's gift, but for those who want to try something different, why not surprise your significant other by downloading a romantic app? It's fast and free.

The fourth and final installment of The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn -- Part 1 is on pace to outsell he previous Twilight movie DVDs and Blu-ray discs, selling 3.2 million units in the weekend leading up to Valentine's Day. Sales are 18 percent more than the third Twilight movie, Eclipse, which sold 2.7 million units its first weekend of release according to the Chicago Tribune.

On this year’s sweetheart’s holiday, America is expected to spend $700 million on chocolate. But did you know that the chocolate industry’s days may be numbered, or that most of the world's chocolate only comes from one place?

Cupid is not the only one who is busy shooting his arrows on Valentine Day's. Using social engineering methods such as stimulative and romantic, sweet title or catchy words, spammers are also targeting consumers who are trying to find a good gift online for his/her Valentine, warns global computer security firm Kaspersky lab

Patient dumping, refusing emergency treatment of a hospital patient, has been illegal since 1986, but still costs hospitals hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in fines.

A fountain video from Dubai set to I Will Always Love You has been received by many Whitney Houston fans to be a tribute to the late singer.