German police use Facebook pictures to nab crooks (Reuters)
Reuters - Police in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use their networks of Facebook "friends" to find missing persons and hunt out suspected criminals, according to the state's interior minister.

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Amazon may open a store in Seattle as a prelude to becoming a chain.

Stunning Red Aurora Captured
Alex Cherney, a software developer and self-described hobbyist astronomer based near Melbourne, captured a series of stunning Aurora Australis over the Mornington peninsula in Australia. “It was my first visual aurora,� he told ABCNews.com. “I was surprised, myself, when I saw it. I didn’t think it would be...

Watch: Quadrantid Meteors Shower the Sky
Stargazers see debris from extinct comet over the Northern Hemisphere.

Madelyn Wins Out in Facebook Poll to Name Baby
What’s in a name? A lot, according to the more-than-4,200 people who took the time to vote in Facebook poll to determine what Dave and Lindsey Meske of Crystal Lake, Ill., should name their newborn baby daughter. The Meskes set up the poll, which drew...

Steve Jobs Spoofed in Tablet Ad
Ad widely criticized on YouTube as tasteless; Apple has no comment.