Suicidal Comet Lives!
Comet Lovejoy, plunging toward the sun as NASA spacecraft watched, was expected to be vaporized by the sun's heat. Instead it survived, missing the sun by less than 90,000 miles. It was observed this morning heading back into deep space.

HP awards new CEO Whitman with $16.5M pay package (AP)
AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package that hinges on the one-time politician's ability to lift the stumbling technology company's stock price during the next two years.

Watch: Baltic Sea Discovery Leads to UFO Chatter
Disc-shaped object resembles Millennium Falcon from 'Star Wars.'

Group seeks to save data on Megaupload servers (Reuters)
Reuters - The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday asked federal prosecutors and lawyers for the Megaupload.com file-sharing service to allow users who uploaded material to retrieve it as long as it was not copyrighted material.

Photos: One Last Look Inside Space Shuttle
American space flight over 50 years, from the selection of the first NASA astronauts to the final flight of the space shuttle.

Watch: Facebook and the Unfriend Finder
Free software lets users know which people ditched them on Facebook.