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London has overtaken New York as the world's fashion capital for 2011, fueled by media interest in late British designer Alexander McQueen and Kate Middleton, according to a survey by the Global Language Monitor.

Hactivist Anonymous has done it again - it has hacked into the BART police website in San Francisco, publishing 102 police officers' personal information, including their home addresses and email accounts plus passwords.

D.C. area rapper Wale released his newest mixtape on Wednesday, "The Eleven One Eleven Theory," ahead of his much anticipated "Ambition" album.

The United States has already tied its full-year record for storm damage -- with more than $35 billion in damage from tornadoes, floods and heat waves -- the National Weather Service said, and there are still 4 1/2 months left in 2011, including hurricane season.

It started as a simple trend: Planking. A game where a person lies down in the most obscure and dangerous places and then uploads their pictures onto the internet. From planking grew the phenomenon of " Owling," where people perch like owls on objects such as stair rails, statues, roofs in what seemed to be a slightly harder game. Just as people started running out of creative " planking" and "Owling" photos a new community page has been launched on Facebook; Plowling.

The White House on Wednesday said President Barack Obama would unveil fresh ideas to jump-start the economy and cut deficits, but details offered so far appeared to be a compilation of old proposals.

Protests swelled across India on Wednesday in support of a self-styled Gandhian anti-corruption campaigner fasting to the death in jail, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's struggling government at a loss over how to end the standoff.

For the second time, rumors on Twitter suggested that martial arts actor Jackie Chan is dead.

Flash mobs are increasing -- and becoming increasingly dangerous and frightening. Why is this phenomenon happening, and how can it be stopped?

An anti-corruption movement led by a feisty 74-year-old social activist is snowballing into one of the biggest challenges in decades for the ruling Congress party and if not contained risks sparking India's own version of an Arab Spring revolt.

Russian space firm Orbital Technologies has unveiled plans to build a hotel in space.

Taylor Armstrong, who stars in the American reality series "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," is in dire straits after her ex-husband Russell Armstrong, 47, was found hanged in a bedroom on Monday evening at a house in Los Angeles.

The French actor complained to flight staff before urinating on the floor.

Ford is at it again in social media-- this time unveiling a new Facebook-based countrywide mileage challenge.

Reports regarding the death of Jackie Chan have erupted on social media websites like Twitter for the second time this year.

The United Arab Emirates is enforcing a law that can slap a 10-year prison sentence on anyone it thinks is spreading rumors through social media outlets.

Look at Facebook community pages, blogs and twitter feeds. "Horsemaning" or fake beheading is the latest Internet trend that has taken other popular trends like planking, owling and leisure diving to a whole new level.

After six days perched on a Tulsa Clear Channel radio tower, William Sturdivant II is back on sold ground and hospitalized.

KCET, the former PBS station serving Southern and Central California, has entered a partnership with Eyetronics Media and Studios to produce and acquire new series, the companies announced Tuesday. Under the agreement, Eyetronics will provide up to $50 million in funding for the new programs, which will start production in the fall.

London has overtaken New York as the world's fashion capital for 2011, fueled by media interest in late British designer Alexander McQueen and Kate Middleton, according to a survey by the Global Language Monitor.

Lady Gaga and Jo Calderone jam together in the singer's latest music video.