Two rockets were fired Saturday morning from Gaza and landed in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, one of them hitting an educational institution and the other landing in an open area, the Israeli military said.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/28/israel.gaza.rockets/index.html?eref=edition
In keeping with the democratic nature of user-generated media, Facebook is inviting its 150 million users to help decide how the online gathering place is run.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/27/facebook.democracy/index.html?eref=edition
Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta region said they killed six government soldiers after the military attacked one of its camps on Thursday.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/26/nigeria.attack/index.html?eref=edition
Three more bodies and a fetus have been discovered west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where six bodies were unearthed earlier this month, police said Tuesday.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/24/nm.bodies/index.html?eref=edition
Stalinist North Korea deployed new medium-range ballistic missiles and expanded special forces training during 2008, South Korea's defense ministry reported.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/23/northkorea.missiles/index.html?eref=edition
Hundreds of thousands of workers filled the streets of Dublin on Saturday to protest the government response to Ireland's economic downturn.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/02/21/ireland.economy/index.html?eref=edition
Military officials in Sri Lanka said they shot down a Tamil Tiger aircraft near the Colombo International Airport on Friday, in an air engagement with rebels that killed two people and left about 50 wounded.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/21/srilanka.attack/index.html?eref=edition
Los Angeles police have launched an internal investigation to determine who leaked a picture of a bruised and battered Rihanna to the media.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/20/rihanna.photo/index.html?eref=edition
A New York Post cartoon Wednesday drew fire from civil rights activist Al Sharpton, who says the image invokes a history of racism to suggest that an ape wrote President Obama's economic stimulus package.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/18/chimp.cartoon/index.html?eref=edition
On an otherwise placid holiday weekend, one blog's commentary on a change to Facebook's terms of service created a firestorm of banter on the Web: does the social network claim ownership to any user content on the site, even if the user deletes it?
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/17/facebook.terms.service/index.html?eref=edition
Actress Ashley Judd says a wolf management program backed by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is "incredibly savage ... it's not right, it's not appropriate, it makes no sense on any level."
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/06/alaska.judd.palin/index.html?eref=edition
While reports of fraud have been common in phony phone calls and e-mails, similar cases are now surfacing on social-networking sites. In Seattle, a hacker appeared to steal Bryan Rutberg's identity to get money from his friends by toying with their emotions. In Wisconsin, police accuse an 18-year-old man of posing as a woman to get high school boys to send him naked photos of themselves.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/05/facebook.impostors/index.html?eref=edition
Customs officials in Australia have cried fowl after searching a airline traveler -- and allegedly finding two live pigeons stuffed in his tights.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/04/australia.border.pigeons/index.html?eref=edition
Questions were being asked Tuesday about how snow in Britain caused so much disruption to travel and education as analysts said the cost to the economy could be as much as £3.5 billion ($5 billion).
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/03/europe.snow/index.html?eref=edition
All charges against George Obama, half-brother to U.S. President Barack Obama, have been dropped after his arrest in a drug raid, according to police in Kenya.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/02/kenya.george.obama/index.html?eref=edition
