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Fast food preparation - Source: Breakfast Two young women have been fired on Facebook after new owners took over a Wellington fast food shop. Taryne Cullen, 20, worked at the Pita Pit in Featherston St for a year while a student at Victoria University. After being away for a knee operation, she tried to return to work this month, with the store under new management. She checked the roster, which was held on a private Facebook page. "When I saw my name wasn't on there, I contacted the new owners," she said. A few days later she was told - on Facebook - that there was no room for her. "They just said 'you don't have a job anymore'. I felt brushed aside, like I was no-one." Brooke Adams, 19, said she was fired with one day's notice after working for a year and eight months. She had also checked the in-store roster, and found her name was not on it. "They didn't even have the courtesy to tell me." Another woman, who did not want to be ...

(Reuters) - An Ohio street preacher was found guilty on Tuesday of murdering three down-on-their-luck men who answered an ad for a non-existent job on Craigslist in 2011. A jury deliberated for about 12 hours before returning the verdict against Richard Beasley, 53, who was accused of kidnapping and murdering David Pauley, 51, of Norfolk, Virginia; Ralph Geiger, 56, of Akron; and Timothy Kern, 47, of Massillon, Ohio. The jury convicted Beasley of aggravated murder and kidnapping in the deaths of all three men. It also convicted him of the attempted murder of Scott Davis, who answered the Craigslist ad and was shot in the arm while escaping after meeting Beasley and his teenage accomplice, Brogan Rafferty. Rafferty, 18, was tried as an adult and sentenced in November to life in prison without parole for his role in the deadly scheme. He was 16 years old at the time of the crimes and not subject to the death penalty. The jurors, who got Beasley's case late on Mon...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Zynga games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars are played by millions every day on Facebook Expert says social gaming succeeds by appealing to women, other non-traditional gamers Zynga founder says key to success was games that can be played during conference call Backlash leads to FB group of 5 million saying they're tired of seeing games (CNN) -- Early each morning, millions of farmers around the world rise to toil in their fields. By night, gangs of mobsters scheme and legions of poker players shuffle up and deal. Sure, none of it's real. But the overwhelming popularity of so-called social gaming -- simple games that let people play with their friends on networking sites such as Facebook -- is changing the face of video games, experts say. And as the maker of popular titles like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, San Francisco, California-based Zynga has ridden the games' skyrocketing popularity to the top of that emerging market. For Zynga foun...

An interesting thing happened to me tonight after I put up another picture of myself on Facebook, I started to receive several e-mails. The first e-mail directed towards me was titled hey Vinney is that you? First of all I do not respond to Vinney. I believe that when someone calls me Vinney, that they are implying and ethnic tone. The second e-mail I got, was completely in Spanish. Another e-mail I got, said " I don't like white men, I am not a racist, I just don't like white men". I also got one stating, now that I know are you look I hope that you understand that there are ladies here. Many more e-mails followed, I believe that you get the flavor of the comments. You know, you would think that in these days and times, in fact this would be humorous. Anybody with any knowledge of history knows that everybody is a combination of everyone else. There are no your races on this planet. Yes my parents were from Sicily. Does anyone know the racial makeup of the Sicilian...