Police say the man was beaten and shot on March 10 over a neighborhood dispute as he tried to get a haircut. The victim knew the shooter but not his name, pulled up a Facebook photo and gave it to police. Authorities at the Real Time Crime Center fed the photo through the system and a match appeared: The suspect's prior mug shot. The center has a database of mug shots, names and nicknames. Authorities arrested the 37-year-old suspect about a day later in Brooklyn.

Blast-off will be between April 12 and 16 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-Sung, the communist state's official news agency and state television said.

The US State Department called the proposed launch "highly provocative" and a threat to regional security. And it voiced doubt over whether it could move ahead with providing food aid to North Korea if Pyongyang followed through with its threat. "Were we to have a launch, it would create obviously tensions and that would make the implementation of any kind of nutritional agreement quite difficult," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

Nuland said that US diplomats told their North Korean counterparts prior to the February 29 agreement that a missile launch would be a "deal breaker."

The CIA claims it will be able to 'read' these devices via the internet - and perhaps even via radio waves from outside the home. Everything from remote controls to clock radios can now be controlled via apps - and chip company ARM recently unveiled low-powered, cheaper chips which will be used in everything from fridges and ovens to doorbells. The resultant chorus of 'connected' gadgets will be able to be read like a book - and even remote-controlled, according to CIA Director David Petraeus, according to a recent report by Wired's 'Danger Room' blog.

Petraeus says that web-connected gadgets will 'transform' the art of spying - 'allowing spies to monitor people automatically without planting bugs, breaking and entering or even donning a tuxedo to infiltrate a dinner party. 'Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,' said Petraeus.

'Particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft. Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.'

Futurists think that one day 'connected' devices will tell the internet where they are and what they are doing at all times - and will be mapped by computers as precisely as Google Maps charts the physical landscape now. Privacy groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation have warned of how information such as geolocation data can be misused - but as more and more devices connect, it's clear that opportunities for surveillance will multiply.

The document (PDF), entitled Terrorism Awareness and Prevention, is presented as a guide for both “residents and workers of New Jersey,” along with employees of federal, state and local agencies, on how to “assist in combating terrorism” by identifying “unusual or suspicious activities and behaviors.”

The guide encourages participants to “look for signs of nervousness in the people you come in contact with.” “Signs will become particularly evident in a person’s eyes, face, neck and body movements. The document then lists examples of suspicious behavior indicative of terrorism, which include, “Exaggerated yawning when engaged in conversation,” “glances,” “cold penetrating stare,” “rigid posture,” and “goose bumps”.

Of course, any of these behaviors could be explained by a million other circumstances and the likelihood that they are indications of terrorist activity is virtually zero. However, as we have seen from recent literature put out by the DHS or related law enforcement bodies, the standard for being characterized as a potential terrorist is getting broader and broader all the time.

Characterizing behavior which millions of Americans engage in every day as a potential indication of terrorism only serves to breed paranoia and distrust. If anything, it actually helps terrorists to blend in and not be identified, by increasing the chances exponentially of innocent Americans being mistaken for terrorists.

US government agencies are growing less patient with their own country with every month. First, paying with cash, shielding your laptop screen and a whole list of other commonplace habits was proclaimed to be suspicious – and if you see something you are prompted to say something. Then, reports emerged that drones are being fetched for police forces. Now, the state of Utah seems to be making way in a bid to host the largest-ever cyber shield in the history of American intelligence. Or is it a cyber-pool?

The NSA maintains that the data center, to be completed by September 2013, is a component of the Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative. The facility is to provide technical assistance to the Department of Homeland Security, collect intelligence on cyber threats and carry out cyber-security objectives, reported Reuters. But both ordinary Americans and their intelligence community were quick to dub it “a spy center.” The highly-classified project will be responsible for intercepting, storing and analyzing intelligence data as it zips through both domestic and international networks. The data may come in all forms: private emails, cell phone calls, Google searches – even parking lot tickets or shop purchases.

This means not only exposing Facebook activities or Wikipedia requests, but compromising “the invisible” Internet, or the “deepnet.” Legal and business deals, financial transactions, password-protected files and inter-governmental communications will all become vulnerable. Once communication data is stored, a process known as data-mining will begin. Everything a person does – from traveling to buying groceries – is to be displayed on a graph, allowing the NSA to paint a detailed picture of any given individual’s life.

William Binney, NSA’s former senior mathematician-gone-whistleblower, holds his thumb and forefinger close together and tells the on-line magazine: “WE ARE THAT FAR FROM A TURNKEY TOTALITARIAN STATE.”

Most of the infections have come in the Nile Delta provinces in northern Egypt. Agriculture Minister Mohammed Ismail told parliament this week that the ministry has ordered the isolation of infected animals, the closure of cattle markets across the country and is working on providing a new vaccine for the highly contagious disease. Egyptian farmers have accused the government of incompetence, and have thrown dead cows in front of the governors' offices during protests.

The city’s seven windmills have so far saved Reno $2,785 in energy costs after generating 25,319 kilowatt-hours of electricity. The windmills were installed between April and October 2010 and cost about $1 million out of a $2.1 million federal energy grant given to the city that was part of the stimulus package approved by Congress in February 2009. Jason Geddes, Reno’s environmental services administrator, said the problem is lower-than-expected wind speeds in downtown Reno — about 1.3 miles per hour on average at the parking garage — compared to windier areas closer to the Sierra and canyons.

This could include sanctions against all quoted mainstream banks, including Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays and HSBC, with Timerman threatening “civil and criminal” actions against the “companies involved”. His sabre-rattling comes as one of the explorers, Rock­hopper, seeks a partner to invest in its potentially massive Sea Lion project.

Falkland Oil & Gas and Borders & Southern are set to drill to the south of the islands later this year. Argos Resources and Desire Petroleum are also involved. Argentina has been turning up the heat over the islands since the prospect of vast oil reserves emerged. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War.

Dr Sentamu has been made the bookies' favourite to succeed him but some say that he could be considered too right-wing to get the job. It came as the Government gave the go-ahead for gay marriage in Britain and Dr Williams' tenure has been marked by a bruising war between liberals and traditionalists in the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion over the issue of homosexuality.

Explaining his reasons for leaving, Dr Williams said: 'At the end of this year I will have been 10 years in post as Archbishop and just over 20 years as a bishop - that is part of it, feeling that after 10 years it is proper to pray and reflect and review your options. It has been an enormous privilege being Archbishop of Canterbury, you are given access to the life of churches worldwide in a really unique way.'

David Cameron has paid tribute to Dr Williams for his 'dedicated service' as Archbishop. 'As a man of great learning and humility, he has guided the church through times of challenge and change,' the Prime Minister said. 'He has sought to unite different communities and offer a profoundly humane sense of moral leadership that was respected by people of all faiths and none. As Prime Minister, I have been grateful for his support and advice and for the work he has done around the world, particularly in Africa where he has taken such a close interest in the Sudan.'

"These are shameful lies," wrote one viewer on NTV's page on vKontakte, a Russian-language equivalent of Facebook which was inundated with thousands of complaints. "You don't deserve to be called journalists." The channel's website also crashed. The anger was provoked by footage of people allegedly being paid to take part in a demonstration against the rule of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin last month, in which thousands of people held hands around Moscow's inner ring road. However, news spread quickly online today that someone had witnessed the episode being faked outside the city's Sokolniki metro station on February 26, the day of the demonstration.

Other parts of the film seemed likely to elicit ridicule as much as disgust. A constant refrain of Kremlin propaganda is that the United States is behind Russia's protest movement. "What are people from the US embassy [in Moscow] doing at the demonstrations?" intones the narrator in faux horror at one point in the film as a confused looking man apparently on the fringe of a protest clearly speaks in German. Russians jammed the internet to express horror at the programme.

"Every year since Putin killed free NTV it has become ranker and ranker," wrote one, Alexey Zhirnov."With 'Anatomy of Protest' we have reached the apotheosis of foulness." NTV published a statement saying its website had come under a direct denial of service (DDoS) attack on Friday morning, although another theory was that the site crashed for about an hour because of the number of people trying to complain. The channel said the alleged hacking was a response to the programme.

“Sudden” is more like it. The thing about inflation is that it comes out of nowhere and hits you. Monetary policy is like sailing. You’re gliding along, passing the peninsula, and you come about. Nothing. Then the wind fills the sail so fast it knocks you into the sea. Right now, the US is a sailboat that has just made open water, and has already come about. That wind is coming. The sailor just doesn’t know it.

“Sudden” has happened to us before. In World War I, an early version of what we would call the CPI-U, the consumer price index for urban areas, went from 1 percent for 1915 to 7 percent in 1916 to 17 percent in 1917. To returning veterans, that felt awful sudden. How did it happen? The Treasury spent like crazy on the war, creating money to pay for it, then pretended that its spending was offset by complex Liberty Bond sales and admonishments to citizens that they save more.

In other words, the Woodrow Wilson administration was in denial, inflating in all but name. Commenting on one complex plan to make more money available, Representative LT McFadden, a Pennsylvania Republican, said, “I would suggest that if the administration believes that inflation of this character is necessary to finance the war the more direct way would be to issue the notes direct.” Or, to return to sailing terms, the Treasury and Fed had tilted the US monetary craft so far one way that it needed to lean back the other way before it could right. That leaning was the true tight money policy of subsequent years, including deflation of 10 percent and wrenching unemployment.

Thursday’s cross-border violence tested a shaky truce Israel and Gaza militants reached this week to halt a four-day flare-up in fighting. Since then, sporadic rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes have persisted. Israeli aircraft struck two militant sites in Gaza before dawn Thursday in response to rocket fire a day earlier. Gaza gunmen retaliated by launching two rockets at Israel by midday, police said.

In a speech to parliament on Wednesday, Mr Netanyahu accused Iran of arming, financing and training Gaza militants, and giving them their marching orders. “Gaza is Iran,” he declared. Israel considers Iran to be its most fearsome enemy, in large part because it is convinced Tehran is developing atomic weapons technology, despite its claims its nuclear program is peaceful.

In the US last week, where he met with President Obama, Mr Netanyahu was markedly more vocal about Israel’s willingness to attack Iran’s program, alone if necessary, though he said no decision had been made on whether to strike. On Wednesday, he ratcheted up the tough talk, suggesting Israel would be ready to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities even if the US objected.

The term has become used to describe a type of beef trimming commonly found in school and restaurant beef in the US. Reports it was widely used in schools prompted a popular outcry, although the beef is certified as safe to eat. Social media campaigns and an online petition sprung up to oppose the use of the product. The beef's producer led a campaign to explain it was nutritional and safe. Last year, British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver publicly criticised the product on his now-defunct US TV show, and McDonald's recently said it would phase out the use of "pink slime" in its burgers.

"Pink slime" - a term reportedly coined by a microbiologist working for the US government - is a form of lean beef formed by reclaiming the small parts of meat from leftover cuts with a high fat content. The beef is spun in a centrifuge to separate the meat from the fat, before the final product is treated with a puff of ammonium hydroxide gas to kill any bacteria. Produced in bulk by a firm in North Dakota, the derogatory nature of the term "pink slime" has coloured the debate, some experts say.

It is "unappetising", Sarah Klein, of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, told the Los Angeles Times, "but perhaps not more so than other things that are routinely part of a hamburger". "What pink slime reveals to us," she told the newspaper, "is the unsavoury marriage of engineering and food, but it's present in a lot of the products we eat."

Karzai told visiting US defence chief Leon Panetta that "Afghanistan is ready to take overall security responsibility", a statement from his office said. "Our demand is that this process should be executed sharply and the responsibility should be handed over to Afghans." Karzai said both sides should work together so that the process of handing security from international troops to Afghan forces would be completed in 2013 rather than 2014, the statement said.

The president also wants the United States to pull all its troops out of villages, where they have outposts, and relocate them in their bases. International forces should "be withdrawn from villages and relocated in their bases", the statement said.

The public debate in Israel about whether Jerusalem should order a strike on Iran’s nuclear program is surprisingly frank. Politicians and policymakers often discuss the merits of an attack in public; over the past year, for example, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have sparred regularly and openly with former Mossad director Meir Dagan, the most prominent opponent of an Israeli operation. But much of the conversation is focused on whether Israel should strike, not on what might happen if it does - in other words, the result on the “day after.”

Indeed, the analysis in Israel about the possible effects of a bombing campaign against Iran is limited to a small, professional elite, mostly in government and behind closed doors. This intimate circle that does consider scenarios of the “day after” concentrates almost exclusively on what an Iranian response, direct or through proxies, might look like. This is not surprising, given that Israel must worry first and foremost about the immediate military implications of an Iranian counterattack.

But in doing so, Israeli policymakers are ignoring several of the potential longer-term aspects of a strike: the preparedness of Israel’s home front; the contours of an Israeli exit strategy; THE IMPACT ON US-ISRAEL RELATIONS; THE GLOBAL DIPLOMATIC FALLOUT; THE STABILITY OF WORLD ENERGY MARKETS; AND THE OUTCOME WITHIN IRAN ITSELF. Should Israel fail to openly debate and account for these factors in advance of an attack, it may end up with a strategic debacle, even if it achieves its narrow military goals.