LONDON — After nine months of hearings sparked by phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid, a landmark report released Thursday recommended new, independent oversight of newspapers in what was seen as a day of reckoning for the British press.

The nearly 2,000-page report sets up a politically explosive battle over how to eradicate a “subculture” of illicit news gathering in
Belly fat -- the fat that's kept in your abdominal cavity -- has been linked with conditions like Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and even early death. And now, a new study shows it could also be a risk factor for osteoporosis, at least for men.

Harvard researchers found an association between higher amounts of belly fat and decreased bone strength in men, according to a study presented at
We love the holiday season: hot chocolate, Christmas songs on the radio, sparkly sweaters... and Bo Obama at the White House!

In what's become one of HuffPost Style's favorite White House traditions, Michelle Obama welcomed families to the White House on Wednesday to unveil the 2012 holiday decorations. Wearing a glittery gold dress that screamed "holiday party!", Mrs. O welcomed a crowd of fe
The most mobile-centric properties in the world are two you probably wouldn’t immediately expect: Pandora and Twitter.

The two top-30 Internet businesses, one focused on music and the other on small bits of information, have the largest percentage of their audiences using their products on mobile devices, according to analytics firm comScore.

The information comes courtesy of comScore’s Med
If you spend time on Facebook, you’ve seen a great weeping and gnashing of teeth as Pages realize that they’re only reaching a tiny sliver of their audiences with each post.

Facebook’s noisy, overvalued IPO means they need a better revenue model. Page owners are being strong-armed encouraged to pay to “Promote” posts to get a wider reach to the audiences they built in the first place.

For a