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FACEBOOK IPO LIVE: The social network goes public
It's Facebook's big day.
Drift to mobile a new challenge for Facebook
With Internet users increasingly going mobile, a major challenge for Facebook will be trying to make money from its massive global presence in a more complex mobile space.
Jury begins deliberations in John Edwards case
A jury started weighing Friday morning whether John Edwards committed a crime when money from two wealthy donors was used to hide his pregnant mistress during the candidate's run for the 2008 White House.
US stocks edge higher ahead of Facebook IPO
Excitement about Facebook's initial public offering gave U.S. stocks a small lift in morning trading on Friday.
German privacy official warns Facebook investors
A German data protection official has warned Facebook investors that the social networking site's $38 starting share price is based on practices that breach European privacy rules.
Hoodie-wearing Zuckerberg kicks off Facebook IPO
Mark Zuckerberg, wearing his trademark hooded sweatshirt, remotely rang the bell to open trade Friday on the Nasdaq, marking a record-setting public offering for Facebook.
Investors eagerly await Facebook debut on Wall Street
(Reuters) - Investors are bracing for Facebook's Wall Street debut on Friday after the pioneering online social network raised about $16 billion in one of the biggest initial public offerings in U.S. history. To rapturous applause from employees, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg rang the bell to kick off trading on the Nasdaq market at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters at 6:30 a.m. Pacific time. Zuckerberg rang the bell, with Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Nasdaq Chief Executive Robert Greifeld on either side. ...
Jury begins deliberations on 6 criminal counts in John Edwards' campaign corruption case.
In 'Moonrise Kingdom,' Wes Anderson relocates
In Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the famously meticulous director takes his fastidiously fashioned world and flings it into the woods.
Imprisoned star of 'Reality' impresses at Cannes
The breakout performance at the Cannes Film Festival this year is Aniello Arena's turn as a Naples fishmonger who becomes obsessed with appearing on a "Big Brother"-style TV show in "Reality."
Facebook windfall to help California fill budget hole
Facebook's initial public offering will make lots of its staff in California rich -- and should therefore help the perennially cash-strapped state fill a whopping $16 billion budget hole.
New bill offers Indian women post-divorce security
Indian women's groups applauded Friday cabinet approval of amendments to a bill that would for the first time grant women a clearly-defined share of their husband's property after divorce.
House OKs indefinite definition of terror suspects
The House has backed indefinite detention without trial of terrorist suspects, even for U.S. citizens seized on American soil.
Facebook fever drives US stocks higher
US stocks opened higher Friday as investors awaited the historic market debut of Facebook, with Europe's financial crisis momentarily receding from view.
Lawyer tries to put Clemens accuser on trial
Chided by the judge for what he called a confusing and mostly pointless cross-examination, Roger Clemens' lawyer is finally turning, after 19 hours, to his central accusation: that Brian McNamee doctored physical evidence to frame the former star pitcher.
Bollywood star gets cricket stadium ban after row
Mumbai cricket officials on Friday announced a five-year ban on Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan from the city's main stadium after a late-night row with staff at the grounds.
Nurses' pre-NATO rally expected to draw thousands
Thousands of nurses and other protesters planned to rally at a downtown Chicago plaza Friday ahead of a two-day NATO summit and as a prelude to a much larger demonstration expected this weekend.
Lakers' Blake, wife target of attacks on Twitter
Lakers guard Steve Blake and his wife have been attacked online since he missed a possible game-winning 3-pointer against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 2 of their Western Conference semifinal.
'Free-falling' Indian rupee hits new lows
India's central bank promised on Friday to use "all its available tools" to stabilise the rupee, which sank to a record low against the dollar for a third straight day amid turmoil in global markets.
Burn it like Beckham: the Olympic flame
David Beckham wants two things: the flame to burn right and a spot on Britain's Olympic team.
Presidential penis portrait riles S.Africa's ANC
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC threatened to take legal action against a Johannesburg gallery for displaying art which lampoons President Jacob Zuma and accuses the party of corruption. The African National Congress wants the Goodman Gallery to remove a painting of Zuma called "The Spear", which depicts the president with his genitals exposed, and another work that has a "For Sale" sign superimposed over the party logo. The picture of Zuma is a facsimile of a famous poster of communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. ...
Largest protests yet in Syrian city of Aleppo
Syrian security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition to disperse thousands rallying Friday in the northern city of Aleppo, which activists said saw the largest turnout since the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad in March 2011.
9/11 families upset over ground zero museum delays
They were promised a place to mourn their loved ones, display their photographs and educate their children and the children of strangers about exactly what was lost on 9/11. But today, family members of those killed have no completion date for the museum that is to be built alongside the Sept. 11 memorial at ground zero — and many are upset.
Rockets kill 2 NATO troops, 3 Afghan civilians
Rockets crashed into a U.S. base and a house Friday in a remote area of northeast Afghanistan along the Pakistan border, killing two NATO service members and three civilians, officials said.
APNewsBreak: 1 arrested in Miss. highway shootings
Police have arrested a suspect in two fatal highway shootings in Mississippi that prompted warnings a fake officer might be pulling over victims.
Obama turns to private sector to feed world's poor
US President Barack Obama on Friday will announce an initiative with the private sector to set a goal of bringing 50 million people in the developing world out of poverty, officials said.
Europe thinks the unthinkable on Greece
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - European officials are working on contingency plans in case Greece bombs out of the euro zone, the EU's trade commissioner said on Friday, while Berlin said it was prepared for all eventualities. European shares were on course for their steepest weekly decline since November and are now in the red for the year, spooked by the prospect of a Greek euro exit sparking a wave of contagion in the currency bloc which could engulf much larger economies such as Spain's. ...
Greece hands Olympic flame over to Britain
The Olympic torch was passed to London — witnessed, appropriately, by hundreds of Greeks huddled under umbrellas.
'American Idol' down to final 2 singers
"American Idol" finalist Joshua Ledet won't be belting it out on this season's final showdown.
US futures set to rebound as G-8 leaders gather
U.S. stock futures rebounded Friday as leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies began to gather outside of Washington to determine how best to limit damage from the debt crises rattling Europe.
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times EDT):
Larry King says talk show to resume this summer
Larry King said Thursday that his talk show will resume this summer on the new digital network Ora.TV, earlier than he or the network had anticipated.
Struggling CW network offers big schedule revamp
The young CW network is hoping to turn around a year of disappointing ratings by making changes this fall on each of the five nights it broadcasts.
Filipino Christian group protests Lady Gaga shows
Scores of Christian youths in the Philippines chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally Friday calling for the pop diva's shows here to be canceled despite assurances from authorities that they won't allow nudity and lewd acts.
Commercial rocket will fly to the space station
For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America's space program.
UK surveillance could yield window into lives
British officials have given their word: "We won't read your emails."
Top Israel court tightens enforcement of equal pay
Israeli feminists on Friday welcomed a Supreme Court ruling they say will help enforce equal pay laws for men and women.
Census shows whites lose US majority among babies
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
Greek party most extreme of Europe's far right
Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday, making it arguably the most far-right party to enter a European national legislature since Nazi-era Germany.
U.N. chief calls for end to fighting in Myanmar
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called for an end to attacks by all parties in Myanmar on Thursday after receiving a letter from a rebel independence group in the country's Kachin State asking the United Nations to help end its conflict with the government. Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky said the secretary-general had received a letter from the Kachin Independence Organization, the political wing of the Kachin Independence Army. The Kachin conflict resurfaced in June 2011, scuttling a 16-year truce and displacing an estimated 50,000 people. ...