It was reported earlier this week that for a second month in a row Facebook is losing users in the U.S., Britain and Canada.  The news has investors, advertisers and media companies all scratching their heads simply because it’s so unusual. We’ve all been following the meteoric rise of Facebook for just over seven years now, and the thought of it slowing down is a very difficult idea to digest...

Smiling farmers knee deep in emerald rice paddies and shirtless children riding on the backs of mud-caked water buffalo — these are the romantic images of the Thai countryside. There is one problem with it, says Udom Thapsuri, a farmer here and a local sage. It does not exist anymore...

For a period of time last weekend, the ninth-most-popular book on Amazon.com, out of all the thousands of books on Amazon.com, was the cutest widdle thing you ever saw, yes it was, because of all the itty-bitty facey-waces and the whisker-poos and especially the snuggle-muffin babies with their teeny feet.

The book is called “Unlikely Friendships.” It depicts 47 incidents of inter-species affection, such as the cover image, in which a wee little rhesus monkey gently rests his head on the back of a white dove...

Can the president of the United States wage war without congressional approval, as long as he uses drones to do the killing? The Obama administration seems to think the answer is yes...

The United States has been militarily involved in Afghanistan since 2001, when it led an invasion after the Sept. 11 attacks by Al Qaeda. The group had been given safe haven in the country by the Taliban, the exgtremist Islamic gtoup that had seized control in 1996 after years of civil war...

What the influential, hilarious, revolting message board teaches us about internet culture...

A squad of up to eight Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen laid siege to a landmark hotel overlooking the Afghan capital late Tuesday, sparking an hours-long firefight that ended only when NATO helicopters shot dead several insurgents who had commandeered the building’s roof...

Those little boxes that usher cable signals and digital recording capacity into televisions have become the single largest electricity drain in many American homes, with some typical home entertainment configurations eating more power than a new refrigerator and even some central air-conditioning systems...

Before Abed Ellafdi emigrated from Rabat, Morocco, to Northern Virginia six years ago, a friend gave him a tip: When you get to America, go to the Starbucks at Skyline...

Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. Don't laugh...