Ravi Somaiya The New York Times

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Facebook is increasingly becoming to the news business what Amazon is to book publishing - a behemoth that provides access to hundreds of millions of consumers and wields enormous power.

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Two young men, armed with guns and explosives in what appeared to be backpacks, engaged in a violent standoff with dozens of police on a street in Watertown, Mass., Thursday night, police and residents said.

A London court ruled on Wednesday that Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, can be extradited to Sweden for questioning over allegations of sexual abuse there last year. He will seek a final appeal to the Britain's highest court, according to a person close to Mr. Assange.

Outside a London court last week, as those accused of looting and rioting in the most destructive and widespread violence in recent British history faced justice, a mother turned to her 11-year-old son, accused of theft, and asked simply, "Why?"

What began as seamy gossip about an affair between a famous British soccer player and a reality TV star has quickly become another test over how far the rights to privacy and free speech extend online, where social media operate in countries with vastly different laws. The soccer player has been granted a so-called super-injunction, a stringent and...

With fanfare and flags under cool, gray skies, Prince William and his longtime girlfriend, Kate Middleton, were married on Friday in one of the largest and most- watched events here in decades -- an interlude of romance in a time of austerity and a moment that will shape the future of the British monarchy. (In Pics: Kate & William, Just Married...

As last-minute preparations drew to a close, London braced Friday for a royal wedding that promises to be one of the largest and most widely watched events here in recent memory. The police expect that hundreds of thousands will throng the city's streets for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on Friday morning, craning for a glimpse o...

 A former Swiss bank executive said on Monday that he had given the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, details of more than 2,000 prominent individuals and companies that he contends engaged in tax evasion and other possible criminal activity. Rudolf M. Elmer, the former head of the Cayman Islands office of the prominent Swiss bank Julius Baer...

The High Court in London granted bail on Thursday to Julian Assange, the founder of the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, while he fights extradition to Sweden on alleged sex offenses. But High Court Judge Duncan Ounsley added more restrictive bail conditions to those imposed by a lower court two days ago, when the prosecutors filed an appeal, insistin...

After a week in detention facing possible extradition, Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy group, was scheduled to appear in court here on Tuesday to seek bail as he challenges a Swedish prosecutor's demand for his extradition to face questioning about alleged sex offenses.The case has generated enormous international interest...

In a campaign that had some declaring the start of a "cyberwar," hundreds of Internet activists mounted retaliatory attacks on Wednesday on the Web sites of multinational companies and other organizations they deemed hostile to the WikiLeaks antisecrecy organization and its jailed founder, Julian Assange. Within 12 hours of a British judge's decisi...

The program will begin with a few articles but is expected to expand quickly.

News articles on Facebook are currently linked to the publisher's website, and open in a browser, typically taking about eight seconds to load.

Amazon's new app will deliver the Washington Post to some Amazon Kindle tablet owners for free.

Facebook is increasingly becoming to the news business what Amazon is to book publishing - a behemoth that provides access to hundreds of millions of consumers and wields enormous power.

The move is the latest in a battle between the company and sites that try to use the Facebook algorithm that ranks articles to their advantage.

Two young men, armed with guns and explosives in what appeared to be backpacks, engaged in a violent standoff with dozens of police on a street in Watertown, Mass., Thursday night, police and residents said.

A London court ruled on Wednesday that Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, can be extradited to Sweden for questioning over allegations of sexual abuse there last year. He will seek a final appeal to the Britain's highest court, according to a person close to Mr. Assange.

Outside a London court last week, as those accused of looting and rioting in the most destructive and widespread violence in recent British history faced justice, a mother turned to her 11-year-old son, accused of theft, and asked simply, "Why?"

What began as seamy gossip about an affair between a famous British soccer player and a reality TV star has quickly become another test over how far the rights to privacy and free speech extend online, where social media operate in countries with vastly different laws. The soccer player has been granted a so-called super-injunction, a stringent and...

With fanfare and flags under cool, gray skies, Prince William and his longtime girlfriend, Kate Middleton, were married on Friday in one of the largest and most- watched events here in decades -- an interlude of romance in a time of austerity and a moment that will shape the future of the British monarchy. (In Pics: Kate & William, Just Married...

As last-minute preparations drew to a close, London braced Friday for a royal wedding that promises to be one of the largest and most widely watched events here in recent memory. The police expect that hundreds of thousands will throng the city's streets for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on Friday morning, craning for a glimpse o...

 A former Swiss bank executive said on Monday that he had given the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, details of more than 2,000 prominent individuals and companies that he contends engaged in tax evasion and other possible criminal activity. Rudolf M. Elmer, the former head of the Cayman Islands office of the prominent Swiss bank Julius Baer...

The High Court in London granted bail on Thursday to Julian Assange, the founder of the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, while he fights extradition to Sweden on alleged sex offenses. But High Court Judge Duncan Ounsley added more restrictive bail conditions to those imposed by a lower court two days ago, when the prosecutors filed an appeal, insistin...

After a week in detention facing possible extradition, Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy group, was scheduled to appear in court here on Tuesday to seek bail as he challenges a Swedish prosecutor's demand for his extradition to face questioning about alleged sex offenses.The case has generated enormous international interest...

In a campaign that had some declaring the start of a "cyberwar," hundreds of Internet activists mounted retaliatory attacks on Wednesday on the Web sites of multinational companies and other organizations they deemed hostile to the WikiLeaks antisecrecy organization and its jailed founder, Julian Assange. Within 12 hours of a British judge's decisi...