Stump, the 10-year-old Sussex spaniel who only recently emerged from retirement, has been named Best in Show at the 133rd annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show. He’s the oldest dog to ever win that title. (An 8-year-old papillon won in 1999.) In making senior-dog history, Stump (registered...

Well-known campus gossip site JuicyCampus went down for good Thursday. JuicyCampus has been compared to a “virtual bathroom wall” of vile and demeaning gossip. Many school administrators and students were relieved to hear the gossip site had been shut down. “We’re very happy,”...

Twelve Prince George’s County public schools, most of them inside the Capital Beltway or in the southern part of the county, are targeted for closure next year in a plan to save the cash-strapped system $11.9 million. The targeted schools include one middle school, G. Gardner Shugart in Temple...

Passengers on the US Airways flight that crash-landed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon praised the actions and courage of the pilot, a safety consultant with 40 years of experience in the aviation industry. The pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 who gave passengers the chilling command “brace...

Club Pittsburgh at which a man died Sunday was threatened with closure by the city of Pittsburgh in August but it was allowed to continue to operate after its politically connected owners approached city officials. Although Club Pittsburgh is zoned as a health and fitness center, the city initially...

Armed robbers stole diamonds valued at 85 million euros ($108 million) from the Paris branch of jeweler Harry Winston, the city prosecutors’ office said. Four armed men entered the store on Avenue Montaigne near the Champs-Elysees shortly before its 5:30 p.m. closing time yesterday, prosecutors’...

YOUNG girls are being sexualised by inappropriate toys and magazines, a Holyrood committee was warned yesterday. High-heeled slip-on shoes available for babies, sexual slogans printed on girls’ underwear and magazines “blurring” the lines by using child-like models, were highlighted...

Last year, Information Today, the organizers of the Internet Librarian conference, held a contest to find a “retronym” for a non-Internet librarian. A retronym is the revision of a word or phrase necessitated due to technological advances. For example, acoustic guitars were just guitars...

A JAPANESE piano teacher has been arrested on suspicion of killing her “virtual husband” after becoming enraged that he suddenly divorced her in an online game. The 43-year-old woman allegedly hacked into a man’s computer and killed off his avatar in the popular interactive game Maple...

Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president and United Nations envoy, has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a mediator in international conflicts. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it had chosen Mr Ahtisaari, 71, for his “important efforts, on several continents and...