Taboo

(CNN) -- Justin Gawel says there's nothing too incriminating on his Facebook page.

"There's nothing naked or anything -- at least I don't think so," he said jokingly.  read more »

Pennsylvania School Accused of Cyberspying on Students  read more »

A new study shows that abstinence-focused sexual education programs encourage a significant number of people to delay sexual activity, perhaps preventing unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted  read more »

An iPhone application that allows users to download speeches by the former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has been withdrawn.

Its developer says he is removing it after legal threats.  read more »

THE BRITISH and Irish governments are maintaining high-level contacts to ensure the personal and political crisis affecting the Robinson family and the DUP [Democratic Unionist Party] does not collaps  read more »

LOS ANGELES -- After a run of setbacks at the state level, gay rights advocates will take the campaign for same-sex marriage into a federal courtroom on Monday, starting down a treacherous avenue that  read more »

A Goldsboro parent who helped come up with the idea to sell grades to raise money for a middle school defended the plan Wednesday, even as the school district shut it down.  read more »

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--U.S.  read more »

The US president does not want to be diverted by the race controversy, writes LARA MARLOWE in Washington  read more »

WASHINGTON — The secret profiles commissioned by the Pentagon to rate the work of journalists reporting from Afghanistan were used by military officials to deny disfavored reporters access to Americ  read more »

For eight years, scientists have taken extreme measures to continue researching how embryonic stem cells could treat illness and injury.  read more »

John McCain insisted yesterday that his selection of Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska and mother of five, as his running mate last Friday was taken after solid background checks.  read more »

PONCE DE LEON - When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay a  read more »

Just days after being appointed Barack Obama's campaign liaison for the Muslim faith, the Metro Detroit native in that role has stepped down.  read more »

Texas lawmakers joined with state child and health advocates Tuesday to defend the removal of 416 children from a polygamous sect's ranch and the separation, a day earlier, of older children from thei  read more »

ANGELA Merkel, the German Chancellor, will face several empty seats during her address to the Israeli Parliament next week, after an MP said he would rather boycott the speech than listen to the langu  read more »

Geraldine Ferraro defended her controversial comment that Sen.  read more »

A Texan patent-licensing firm said it will take legal actions against a Korean dog-cloning company, which it insists is breaching its patents.  read more »

It sounds like science fiction, but British scientists have announced they've created a human embryo from one man and two women.  read more »

It certainly wasn't the first time that racist abuse rained down from the stands of a Spanish sports arena.  read more »

Rebel leaders in Chad are giving conflicting statements about a possible cease-fire, while Chad's government is declaring victory after rebels failed to take the capital N'Djamena in last week's fight  read more »

The Greek traveler, Pausanias, living in the second century, CE, would probably recognize the spectacular site of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion, and particularly the altar of Zeus.  read more »

The announced pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears -- the 16-year-old children's television star and younger sister of beleaguered pop star Britney Spears -- is casting new light on how states deal with the  read more »

A teenager has been handed a cyber anti-social behaviour order (Asbo).  read more »