Yahoo News / By Natalie Wolchover | LiveScience.com For a morning, the sky looked like a surfer's dream: A series of huge breaking waves lined the horizon in Birmingham, Ala., on Friday (Dec. 16), their crests surging forward in slow motion. Ama… more »

The Slatest / Greg Howard Facebook launched its own political action committee on Monday, a move that will allow the social media giant and its employees to hand out cash to candidates in upcoming elections. Or, as the New York Times p… more »

Two giant gas bubbles - each one 25,000 light-years wide - discovered in our galaxy are baffling astronomers. UK Telegraph The two vast structures, stretching to the north and to the south of the centre of the Milky Way, are so big that a b… more »

  Story From BBC News US mortgage giant Freddie Mac saw a loss of $8bn (£5.3bn) in the first three months of 2010 and said it would ask for a further $10.6bn in state aid. The firm has made a number of federal cash requests since it was taken over… more »

BBC NewsCriticism of BP is mounting in the US over its handling of the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Calls for swifter action were led by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who urged BP to commit more resources to tackling the cat… more »