The source said the undercover agent carried a pistol in her undergarments when she put the body scanners to the test. The officer successfully made it through the airport's body scanners every time she tried, the source said.

The TSA insider who blew the whistle on the test also said that none of the TSA agents who failed to spot the gun on the scanned image were disciplined.

Four Americans who had been taken hostage by pirates aboard their yacht were shot fatally by their captors. That prompted a deadly U.S. response.

Earlier this month, the chief of the European Union's counterpiracy force warned that Somali pirates were engaging in "systemic torture" of hostages and had "shown a willingness to use violence much more quickly, and much more violence."

Petro was an elementary school teacher in the Bronx. She taught art. And it just so happened she used to be paid for performance art. Yes, Petro used to be a stripper and a prostitute.

It's just that she decided to write about her past for The Huffington Post. Her post was thoughtful. She wrote about what it felt like to use Craigslist to advertise for clients. She suggested Craigslist was wrong to shut down its adult services section.

Unfortunately, this led to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg saying: "We're just not going to have this woman in front of a class."

National Guard troops operating a remote video surveillance system at the Naco Border Patrol Station say they observed several people preparing a catapult and launching packages over the International Border fence last Friday evening.

The 3-yard tall catapult was found about 20 yards from the U.S. border on a flatbed towed by a sports utility vehicle, according to a Mexican army officer with the 45th military zone in the border state of Sonora.

A cancer survivor, Strecker had a mastectomy five years ago and now wears a prosthetic breast - which is made of gel.

When she pointed that out to security officers, Strecker said she was accused of lying when first asked about liquids and gels.

While in the full body scanner, Strecker said she was also told to raise her arms above her head, something she can no longer do.

Strecker's Calgarian daughter-in-law, Karin, said it was the lack of respect shown by security officials that was so upsetting.

Music is all around us, it's just that very few people actually listen to it.

Multitask all you want, but can you just focus on the music? Let it really get to you.

You might start to notice how good (or bad) your speakers or headphones really are. You might even start to prioritize some dollars toward better sound.

After a remarkably resilient lifetime, in which its death was announced prematurely several times, the music CD finally looks to be on its way out. Figures released by the BPI this week show a 12.4 per cent decline in CD albums sales.

The picture for album sales is likely to get worse. HMV is closing 60 stores with the chain's shares trading at a quarter of their value a year ago. HMV hardly helped matters by pricing goods cheaper on its online store - effectively taxing people who bothered to go to its stores.

McDonald's servers were recently compromised and hackers were able to get access to customers' e-mail addresses, names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, genders, as well as certain information about their promotional preferences and Web information interests.

McDonald's did not disclose how many people were impacted by the hack.

A database leak in Mesa County, Colorado has left the personal information of 200,000 people in jeopardy. And not just any 200,000 people - these are suspects, victims, and informants working with the sheriff's department to out other criminals.

According to the Associated Press, the employee had copied over the database in the form of a giant text file with everyone's information available in plaintext, assuming that the target server was secure.

Police, along with the FBI and Google (apparently thanks to Google's Web crawler, which indexed the data), are now working to figure out who could be in jeopardy thanks to the leak.

In a reversal of course, PayPal has released funds remaining in an account associated with WikiLeaks according to a post on PayPal's blog.

Last week, a statement from PayPal indicated, the company had suspended the account following claims by the U.S. that the activities of WikiLeaks violated the law.

Now it appears attacks from the supporters of WikiLeaks have caused PayPal to re-think their position.