Double-o oops: Wife of new British spy chief puts family details on Facebook

May 22nd, 2009 LONDON - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has come under attack from the press after he revamped his Facebook page by posting a video of him kissing his supermodel wife Carla Bruni. The video, which was shot this month during an informal interview between First Lady and competition winners from a women's magazine, has been branded as "nauseating" by the press, reports Sky News.

July 5th, 2009 LONDON - The credibility of Britain's new chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, Sir John Sawers, is being questioned after his wife published family holiday photographs and other personal details on Facebook. Currently Britain's ambassador to the United Nations, Sir John will take up his post as MI6 head, in charge of Britain's spying operations abroad, in November.

July 13th, 2009 Offer puts value of at least $6.5B on FacebookNEW YORK — How much is Facebook worth? A Russian investment firm appears to put it at $6.5 billion to $10 billion. The investment group, Digital Sky Technologies, said Monday it will buy up to $100 million worth of Facebook shares from current and former employees.

January 28th, 2009 MOSCOW - A man in Russia's Urals has admitted killing his wife after stumbling across her details on a dating website and discovering that she had cheated on him, Russian media has reported. The man, from the town of Lysva in Russia's Perm Territory, found that his wife had registered on the loveplanet.ru dating website as 'Angel'.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - Reacting on the headlines grabbed by new MI6 head Sir John Sawers' photographs, which appeared on Facebook, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said that it is "not a state secret" that the spy chief wears Speedos. John's wife Shelley Sawers had posted beach photos of her husband on facebook site the day after he was appointment head of MI6.

April 17th, 2009 The bodies of a software professional, his wife and baby daughter, killed by his Indian American brother-in-law in California last month, were brought to their native Ayyankolli village in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris district Friday for the last rites. The bodies of Ashokan, his wife Suchitra and their daughter Ahaana, were brought to Bangalore by a flight early Friday and then to Ayyankolli in the district, 550 km southwest of state capital Chennai, by road, family sources said.

March 17th, 2009 MADRID - Spanish novelist Francisco Ayala, who turned 103 Monday, says he would like to live quite a while longer, adding what keeps him going is his active interest in the modern world, including new developments of the information age like Facebook. 'I try to keep up with the new advances, because I see that a lot of people refuse to and separate themselves from the world.

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.

May 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace might be a great way of meeting new people, but they are turning British people into introverts, a new survey has found. In the study led by market research company Mintel, over 50 pct of the adults revealed that they spend more time chatting online than they do actually speaking to friends and family.

July 10th, 2009 British royal family joins TwitterLONDON — Britain's royal family has extended its kingdom further into cyberspace and joined Twitter — but don't expect Her Majesty to tweet. Buckingham Palace, which already has a significant online presence, said Friday that it has set up a Twitter account to alert royal watchers to what's happening with the family.

April 30th, 2009 Facebook exec considers California AG job in 2010 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The chief privacy officer of networking Web site Facebook says he's considering running to be California's attorney general in 2010.

July 5th, 2009 LONDON - Popular social networking site Facebook is being criticised for planned changes to its privacy settings. The Facebook officials plan to "simplify" the process so users only have to set them once, instead of for each individual feature.

April 9th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A new British study has revealed that some people log on to social networking sites Twitter or Facebook and chat over the Internet while they are driving. In a survey of 1,000 people conducted by British insurance company Esure, one in 10 admitted to "tweeting" or updating their Facebook profile while behind the wheel.

June 5th, 2009 LONDON - A man who was put for adoption when he was just three-days-old has found his biological family after 33 years, thanks to popular social networking website Facebook. Richard Marks had been living with his adopted parents, unaware of the fact that his real family resided just two miles away.

December 27th, 2007 My first Facebook spam: Subject: Mi Chai invited you to join the group "I'M A CHRISTIAN..AND I'M PROUD TO SAY IT!!"... Mi invited you to join the Facebook group "I'M A CHRISTIAN..AND I'M PROUD TO SAY IT!!".