By Somini Sengupta The New York Times

Facebook has cleverly, perhaps also dangerously, exploited technology owned by one of its leading rivals, Google.

The new design of the Facebook News Feed presents bigger photos and links, and lets users see specialized streams focused on topics like music and posts by close friends.

India has long faced an uneasy tension between allowing free expression to its citizens and staunching sectarian violence among its people. It was one of the first countries to ban "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie. Lawsuits forced the Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain to live in exile during the last several years of his life. An academic bo...

Jesse Roe, a ninth-grade math teacher at a charter school here called Summit, has a peephole into the brains of each of his 38 students.

Facebook has cleverly, perhaps also dangerously, exploited technology owned by one of its leading rivals, Google.

The new design of the Facebook News Feed presents bigger photos and links, and lets users see specialized streams focused on topics like music and posts by close friends.

India has long faced an uneasy tension between allowing free expression to its citizens and staunching sectarian violence among its people. It was one of the first countries to ban "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie. Lawsuits forced the Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain to live in exile during the last several years of his life. An academic bo...

Jesse Roe, a ninth-grade math teacher at a charter school here called Summit, has a peephole into the brains of each of his 38 students.