Facebook Party Turns Into Rioting In Netherlands

Haren had been braced for trouble all week after what should have been an invite to a small-scale celebration was passed on to 30,000 people.

The girl whose 16th birthday was being celebrated had not set her Facebook event to “private”.

Riot police broke up crowds of revellers…

Man Mauled By Tiger at Bronx Zoo

NEW YORK (AP) — A 400-pound tiger that mauled a man who jumped from a moving monorail train and plummeted over a protective fence at the Bronx Zoo will not be euthanized and “did nothing wrong,” the zoo director said.

The mauling happened Friday afternoon in the Wild Asia exhibit…

Mitt Romney Releases Tax Returns

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, paid $1.94 million in federal income taxes on 2011 income of $13.7 million, most of it from investments, for an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent, hiscampaign said Friday.
That’s slightly above the 13.9 percent rate the…

Line for New iPhone 5 Wraps Around the Globe

HONG KONG (AP) — In a now familiar global ritual, Apple fans jammed shops from Sydney to Paris to pick up the tech juggernaut’s latest iPhone.

Eager buyers formed long lines Friday at Apple Inc. stores in Asia, Europe and North America to be the first to get their hands…

Man Takes Hostage in Pittsburg, Then Posts on Facebook

PITTSBURGH (AP) — An armed man with a military background took a hostage inside an upper floor of a downtown Pittsburgh office building on Friday and posted Facebook updates saying he had “lost everything.”

Police Chief Nate Harper identified the hostage-taker as Klein Michael Thaxton, who wrote on Facebook that…