Mass. family leaves sleeping child, 5, in taxi; cops threaten to suspend cabbie, but back off

February 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The family of world No.1 golfer Tiger Woods has grown with the birth of the sportsman's second child and first son, the player said on his website. Charlie Axel Woods was born Sunday.

March 14th, 2009 Chennai father arrested for throwing infant into 30-feet well CHENNAI - Twenty nine-year old software engineer, arrested on charges of killing his unwanted four-day-old daughter into a 30-feet well, has been remanded to judicial custody after being produced before a magistrate's court. Niranjan Kumar married Sangeetha a year ago.

August 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The global financial crisis, it seems, has affected the outsourcing of mass from foreign countries to India. Till a few months ago, requests for these so-called "Mass Intentions", or prayers offered for a specific reason, poured into India from the United States, Canada and Europe, where there is a huge shortage of priests.

April 6th, 2009 More than half of corporate India's workforce suffers from various chronic and lifestyle diseases, with those in the information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services (ITES), media, knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) and financial services topping the list, says an industry group report.A study by the Associated Chambers of commerce and Industry of India (Assocham), said 54 percent of the workforce in the IT and ITES sectors were afflicted with depression, severe headaches, obesity, chronic backache, spondylosis, diabetes and hypertension. It said of them, 23 percent suffered from spondylosis, 20 percent from sleeping disorder and 18 percent from obesity.

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.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit teenage girl is said to have allegedly been gang raped so that she could be "s****** and tagged" on Facebook. Jurors were told that three rapists took snaps of the 18-year-old on a mobile and told her: "You are going to be s****** and tagged on Facebook".

August 25th, 2009 LONDON - A teenaged girl has been reunited with her parents and 15 brothers and sisters, thanks to popular social networking website Facebook. Sophie Featherstone was devastated after the demise of her beloved grandmother Pat, who raised her.

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.

May 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - In order to tackle cyber crime, the Kolkata police joined hands with the Public Relations Society of India, Kolkata Chapter and Calcutta Telephones and organised a workshop here to spread awareness about cyber security. Cyber crime still remains a vague phenomenon for most Internet users, as they are not aware as to what actually constitutes cyber crime and what laws are against it.

February 25th, 2009 In this grave economic condition, where Microsoft, google and Motorola have taken a no-mercy approach to cut cost by laying people off in thousands, Nokia has been very pleasant to ask employees to retire by themselves. In other words, lay yourself off.

July 5th, 2009 UK spy chief's family details posted on FacebookLONDON — Photos and family details about the newly appointed head of Britain's international spy agency have been removed from a social networking Web site. The Mail on Sunday newspaper reports that the information was posted by the wife of John Sawers on her Facebook page.

April 28th, 2009 LONDON - The leader of four million Roman Catholics in Ireland has encouraged social network members to text, Twitter or e-mail daily prayers to their family and friends. Cardinal Sean Brady made the appeal as he unveiled a statue of Father Patrick Peyton, known as the Rosary Priest.

October 1st, 2009 Secret Service: Facebook poll no threat to ObamaWASHINGTON — The Secret Service has determined that a juvenile was behind the online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, an agency spokesman said Thursday. No criminal charges will be filed against the juvenile or the juvenile's parents, spokesman Edwin Donovan said.

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.

August 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - An unemployed Arkansas woman, who was thwarted every time she tried to sell the naming rights to her seventh child on eBay, is hoping that her fifth attempt will bring her success. Lavonne Drummond, 36, revealed that her fourth bidding hit 26,100 dollars before eBay removed it on August 17, which was considerably more than the 15,000 dollars she lost when eBay shut down her first auction because the company ruled the mother of six was soliciting donations.