Free-Falling Thursday: Facebook Faces Fatal Friday Follow-Through

3 Doors Down bassist Todd Harrell was arrested on Friday and charged with vehicular homicide after a fatal crash in Nashville.

A curious thing happened last week. The prices of both monetary metals have been falling for a week and a half through February 15. No, that’s not the curious part. There is no law of nature that says the prices have to go up, but if they go down it must be artificial somehow. The curious thing is that the price fell while open interest in futures rose, which is not typical of how the market has actually been behaving in recent years. Now let’s look at the data.  

A suspect in the fatal gang rape of a woman on a moving bus in India’s capital appeared on a television show three years ago, demanding compensation from his former employer after injuring both his hands in a bus accident, the host of the show said Friday.

U.S. and Pakistani officials both said Friday there was communication between the two sides before a controversial, fatal airstrike last weekend, but they differed on the content of those conversations, with a Pakistani military spokesman saying the attack hit the wrong target.

The mysterious press invite sent out Thursday night.

Tom Mulcair is urging traditional NDP allies to wait until they see the fine print of a Canada-European Union free trade deal before assuming it’s unacceptable or that he’s sold out. The federal NDP leader has parted company with some labour unions, environmental groups, anti-globalization activists and at least one provincial NDP leader just by expressing openness toward free trade in general and a trade pact with the EU in particular.

Photos: Free-falling from the edge of space