After the 30-minute video was uploaded to YouTube, we track the online footprints of #StopKony, from Oprah Winfrey to Bieber...

All but two of Japan’s 54 commercial reactors have gone offline since the nuclear disaster a year ago, after the earthquake and tsunami, and it is not clear when they can be restarted. With the last operating reactor scheduled to be idled as soon as next month, Japan — once one of the world’s leaders in atomic energy — will have at least temporarily shut down an industry that once generated a third of its electricity...

Universal Press Syndicate will offer replacement Doonesbury comic strips next week to newspapers that don't want to run a series focusing on a Texas law that requires women to have an ultrasound before getting an abortion, officials said Friday...

After 40 years, more evidence is being reported Wednesday that the end of the biggest manhunt in the history of physics might finally be in sight. Physicists from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., say they have found a bump in their data that might be the long-sought Higgs boson, a hypothesized particle that is responsible for endowing other elementary particles with mass...

SpaceWeather.com writes: “Analysts at [NASA’s] Goddard Space Weather Lab .... say the impact [of Tuesday’s solar flare] could spark a strong-to-severe geomagnetic storm. Sky watchers at all latitudes should be alert for auroras.” Note - though - aurora viewing, possible late tonight and/or Thursday night, may be compromised by a near full moon....

Fed up with the Chinese government's tactics aimed at stemming unrest, some Tibetans have turned to a gruesome show of public protest -- burning themselves.

The latest incidents occurred over the last three days when a Tibetan teenage boy, a teenage girl and a 32-year-old widow and mother died after they lit themselves on fire in public places. During the past year, at least 25 people have committed this act, which the Dalai Lama has said only worsens the situation with China...

Eighty years after they disappeared, tree lobsters have been rediscovered, living near an old volcano in Australia. And no, they’re not actually “lobsters,” but special six-legged insects that were thought to be extinct decades ago...

Monday's summit in Washington between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu will decide whether an attack will be launched -- or at least that's how most Israelis feel, says Knesset member Isaac Herzog...

Not far from Copacabana Beach here is a control room that looks straight out of NASA. City employees in white jumpsuits work quietly in front of a giant wall of screens — a sort of virtual Rio, rendered in real time. Video streams in from subway stations and major intersections. A sophisticated weather program predicts rainfall across the city. A map glows with the locations of car accidents, power failures and other problems. The order and precision seem out of place in this easygoing Brazilian city, which on this February day was preparing for the controlled chaos that is Carnaval. But what is happening here reflects a bold and potentially lucrative experiment that could shape the future of cities around the world...

On Friday, President Obama called a law student at Georgetown to tell her not to take it to heart that Rush Limbaugh had called her a prostitute. “What was really personal for me was that he said to tell my parents that they should be proud,” the student, Sandra Fluke, who, needless to say, is not a prostitute, told Andrea Mitchell, of MSNBC. Is anyone proud of Rush Limbaugh—even anyone in his own party? Before answering, one should read his full remarks about Fluke...