A new feature of Facebook allows users to report posts that look like suicide threats. The social networking site will then send an email to the suicidal person, encouraging them to call a helpline, or setting them up to chat online with a counselor.

After their involvement in the 2007 financial crisis, can credit ratings agencies be trusted? RussiaToday turned to Temple Fox School of Business professor Gary Witt, a former managing director at Moody's, for a discussion of ratings agencies' downgrading of some European Union members. "I wouldn't characterize it as saying they're telling these governments what to do. When you read it, they stick to, 'Look, this is what you did, and here's the problem with that,'" Witt said. "In this case, they're really just doing their job.

Why did Lindsay Lohan decide to appear nude in Playboy? Lohan's pictorial may be tasteful — like many of her photo shoots, it is inspired by Monroe — but it still strikes some as desperate and seedy, says Andrew Mendelson, chair of Temple's Department of Journalism. "Plenty of actresses appear nude or partially nude in Maxim, FHM, GQ, and other men's magazines," he says, "but those magazines don't pay you to pose." Lohan's intended effect? To beg our forgiveness and pave a path for a comeback, says Mendelson. "And we love comeback stories."

Experts have long said that professional athletes, especially those playing contact sports like hockey and football, are putting themselves at risk for serious problems later in life when they play their sport again after suffering a concussion. "Clinically you can be better after a couple of weeks or months depending on the severity, but pathologically the problem is still there," said Ausim Azizi, chair of neurology at Temple.