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Facebook has resolved whatever technical glitches had plagued it today and caused the world's largest social network to be unavailable for some of its members.

An imitation Glock pistol was held to the head of a 20-year-old Milton man yesterday in an incident related to "bad blood" over Facebook, police say.

Dread of the unknown hung in the air as Lynn France typed two words into the search box on Facebook: the name of the woman with whom she believed her husband was having an affair.

A former Wellington ambulance service worker, dismissed after an altercation with a co-worker, might have won her job back but for abusive comments she texted and posted on Facebook, the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) has ruled.

Facebook has issued its own eye-popping status update: the world's most popular social networking site had surpassed 500 million users.

Social media is free, instant, widely used, and a tool local governments can no longer ignore if they want to engage the public and fulfil their responsibility to be accountable, Northland Regional Council community relations general manager Jason Dawson says.

Forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting holiday shots of your mistress? Her divorce lawyer will be thrilled.

A German data protection official has filed a legal complaint against Facebook, saying people have been griping that their private information was saved by the personal networking site without their knowledge or consent.

Facebook is rolling out a new feature that requires outside applications and websites to tell users exactly what parts of their profiles have to be shared for the apps to work.

 BP PLC says it had nothing to do with Facebook's decision to briefly take down a page set up by users that advocates boycotting the oil giant over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting vacation shots of your mistress? Her divorce lawyer will be thrilled.

A 17-year-old  Dunedin youth who allegedly published death threats against a 17-year-old Milton youth on Facebook was arrested and charged with threatening to kill or do grievous bodily harm, Milton police said yesterday.

A leading medical journal says the world could boost its blood supply from young donors by tapping into social networks like Facebook.

Queenstown police have jumped on the social networking bandwagon to gather intelligence from local communities and help catch criminals.

Tens of thousands of Facebook users have fallen victim to a rogue application which spreads by inviting them to view a video allegedly showing a teacher assaulting a 13-year-old.

Employees venting workplace anger to their Facebook friends should face legal action, the Employers and Manufacturers Association (EMA) says.

Many of us use Facebook nearly every day - some of us multiple times a day - without giving much thought to how the world's most popular social network came to be.