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Syrians Upload Ramadan Massacre Footage Onto YouTube With Pen Cameras And Smuggled Tech

After Syrian troops began shelling civilian targets in the city of Hama, brave activists used smuggled phones and sympathetic allies abroad to upload grainy, graphic warfare footage onto YouTube. On Sunday Syrian tanks assaulted Hama and shelled civilian targets; at least 70 are confirmed dead and hundreds more seriously injured. Observers are calling it the " Ramadan Massacre " since it occurred on the eve of the Muslim holiday.

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MTV’s 30th Anniversary

Monday, August 01 MTV's allergy to nostalgia isn't a pose but a savvy strategy for a channel whose median viewer just stopped having to ask his older brother to buy him beer. Since MTV's 30th anniversary is likely to pass like its 25th, which barely earned an on-air nod, we've traced the brand from its colicky infancy through its earnest preteen years and wayward adolescence to its present as a Snooki-faced memento mori for anyone old enough to remember Dan Cortese's bandannas.

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Video: Conjoined twins pray for help

CBS News RAW: The 14 year-old conjoined twins Saba and Farah Shakeel from Ajmer, India offer prayers at a shrine as their health deteriorates.

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Notable Features Through the Years

Inc. magazine editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan gazes back at the past 15 years of editorial content, and walks us through the highlights. I joined Inc

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Buyer’s Remorse Over Windows

I bought a laptop yesterday. I had to. I've been limping by using a little netbook with Windows XP for the past couple of years (I know, I know, it's the cobbler's children who have no shoes).

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Video: "Start Strong" program advises teens on healthy breakups

Chris Wragge speaks with "Early Show" contributor and psychologist Jennifer Harstein about a new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-sponsored initiative that counsels teens how to break up healthily.

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Drivers Who Brake With Their Brains

You might think you have lightning reflexes, but the time between thinking you need to brake and your foot pushing the pedal can be life or death. What if we eliminated the (literal) middle man?

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