Dispute in Facebook turned into fight in real life; 17 yr old killed

May 14th, 2009 MOSCOW - A teenager was murdered in northern Armenia after an argument with a girl on a popular social networking site, according to a news report Thursday. Tigran Tadevosyan, 17, was attacked by four youths outside his residence in Shirak province's Gyumri city, the Tert newspaper reported.

February 9th, 2009 LONDON - British police Tuesday warned women against communicating with a Facebook user suspected to be a killer. Police said women should not meet up with Facebook user George Appleton after the badly burnt corpse of 36-year-old Clare Wood was discovered last week in the bedroom of her home in Salford, Greater Manchester.

August 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Fingerprint analysis has confirmed that one of two men reported killed in a central Java shoot-out with police was not Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin Mohammed Top. Malaysian-born Top is a prime suspect in last month's near simultaneous suicide attacks on Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels that killed nine people and wounded 53.

September 17th, 2009 JAKARTA - Terrorist mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top was killed in a police raid on a militant hideout in Central Java on Thursday, Indonesian police have officially confirmed. The 41-year-old Malaysian-born extremist was one of four militants killed in the raid near Solo, national police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri told reporters.

January 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Police in Little Rock, Arkansas, are questioning a 20-year old man 'strongly suspected' to be involved in the murder of a software engineer from Hyderabad, working with the scam-hit Satyam Computers. Police declined to release the name and other details of the suspect arrested in connection with the killing of Akshay Vishal, who was shot dead Tuesday in the seventh case of young students and professionals from Andhra Pradesh being killed in the US in last 14 months.

August 8th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Indonesian police sources have said that one of two men killed in a central Java shoot-out with police is Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin Mohammed Top. Malaysian-born Top is a prime suspect in last month's near simultaneous suicide attacks on Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, which killed nine people and wounded 53.

March 30th, 2009 Six people, including three children, were killed in a family shooting at an upscale housing development in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, police said Monday. The suspected gunman was believed to be among the dead inside the modern home, said Santa Clara police Lieutenant Phil Cooke.'We do believe this appears to be a family-on-family murder-suicide,' Cooke said in a televised news conference.

September 3rd, 2009 Montana officer resigns over Facebook commentsBOZEMAN, Mont. — A Montana police officer who wrote on his Facebook page that there should be a law allowing police to take people to jail for being "stupid" has resigned.

January 29th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - The photo of the Lupoe family on their now cancelled Facebook account showed the smiling faces of a happy American family. Their tidy new home in a Los Angeles suburb seemed like a poster for the American dream.

September 2nd, 2009 Facebook scam leads woman to wire funds abroadST. LOUIS — Police say a Missouri woman was tricked into wiring about $4,000 to an account in England after receiving messages from a friend on Facebook asking for help.

January 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The body of Akshay Vishal, an employee of fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services who was murdered in a robbery attempt in the US, is expected to be flown to India Saturday. A consul from the Indian consulate in Houston has reached Little Rock, Arkansas, where the incident took place, to coordinate with the local authorities and complete the necessary paper work.

December 28th, 2008 JAKARTA - At least 10 people were killed, 17 rescued and an unspecified number reported missing after a small boat capsized on the sea off Indonesia's main island of Java Monday morning, officials said. The accident took place at about 10 a.m.

May 19th, 2009 LONDON - Israel has asked its public to be careful while using Facebook because, it says, Arabs are trying to recruit spies on the popular social networking site. The Shin Bet security agency warned Israelis against replying to unknown messages, or divulging sensitive information the internet.

September 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a poll posted on the social networking site Facebook that asks if President Barack Obama should be assassinated.

March 27th, 2009 A teenager from New Jersey has been arrested after she uploaded 30 nude photos of herself to her MySpace page, and is now facing child pornography charges. The 14-year-old girl had posted the pictures to a social networking site "because she wanted her boyfriend to see them," a police spokesman revealed.