When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.
Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer to search for his Facebook page. But she couldn't see his private profile. She turned back and asked him to hand over his login information.
Full Story400-pound (180-kilogram) gorilla that escaped from its cage at an upstate New York zoo and bit a zookeeper has been captured in a zookeepers' lounge and has been tranquilized.
The Buffalo Zoo says a 24-year-old male gorilla named Koga got out of his cage into an aisle where the keeper was working Monday morning and bit her on the hand and calf.
Full StoryA British math teacher was convicted Monday of harassing his German neighbors with loud wartime music and Nazi salutes.
Prosecutors said Geoffrey Butler, 54, caused Reinhard and Kathryn Wendt four years of misery, among other things miming a Nazi salute and a Hitler mustache, playing a Winston Churchill speech and blasting patriotic British songs like "Rule Britannia."
Full StoryA man who made comments about his estranged wife on his Facebook page and was threatened with jail unless he posted daily apologies for a month won't be locked up even though he stopped making amends early.
Mark Byron agreed to begin posting the apology last month to avoid jail but later said the ruling violated his freedom of speech. He stopped posting the apology after 26 days, but Judge Jon Sieve, of Hamilton County Domestic Relations Court, determined Monday that he had posted it long enough, and Byron wasn't jailed.
Full StoryPhilippine boxing hero Manny Pacquiao said on Monday that he had been told by God in a dream to retire soon, potentially raising doubt over hopes of a fight with American Floyd Mayweather.
Pacquiao, regarded as the world's best pound-for-pound fighter, told radio station DZMM in an interview also broadcast over the channel's Teleradyo TV show, that he had decided to give up all his vices after the dream.
Full StoryA former Mr. Universe who has just turned 100 said Sunday that happiness and a life without tensions are the key to his longevity.
Manohar Aich, who is 4 foot 11 inches (150 centimeters) tall, overcame many hurdles, including grinding poverty and a stint in prison, to achieve body building glory.
Full StoryThe co-head of a viral online campaign to hunt down Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony has been hospitalized after being found semi-naked in the street, masturbating, police and his boss said Friday.
The head of Invisible Children, the organizers of the Internet campaign sensation, said Jason Russell was receiving medical care for "exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition."
Full StoryAn Argentine veteran of the Falklands War has refused to pair with a resident of the islands in the local version of "Dancing with the Stars" in protest over British control of the territory.
Esteban Tries said that dancing with the British resident would be an insult to participants in the 1982 war over the South Atlantic archipelago known as the Malvinas that left 649 Argentines and 255 British dead.
Full StoryFormer British prime minister Margaret Thatcher swiped a page of doodles by then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan at a summit more than 30 years ago, newly released papers revealed on Saturday.
Britain's only female prime minister to date noticed the U.S. leader sketching during a G7 summit in Canada in 1981 and decided to pocket the drawings, according to a historian who recalled her talking about the doodles.
Full StoryParticipants in Russia's protest movement against Vladimir Putin on Friday expressed fury at a film aired on a federal channel, claiming it used false evidence and smeared demonstrators.
The film, called "Anatomy of a Protest" aired late Thursday on the NTV channel, one of Russia's popular networks broadcast nationwide, claiming the opposition gave people money and biscuits to attend rallies and waged wars on the Internet.
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