1. First lawsuit filed against Sandusky in child sex scandal.
The first lawsuit in a child sex abuse scandal involving Jerry Sandusky was filed Wednesday on behalf of a person listed in the complaint as "John Doe," who says he was 10 years-old when he first met Penn State's former defensive coordinator. Attorneys Jeff Anderson and Marci Hamilton said Sandusky sexually abused the alleged victim "over one hundred times" and threatened to harm the victim and his family if he alerted anyone to the alleged abuse. Anderson said Sandusky also showered the victim with "gifts, travel, and privileges" while attending The Second Mile camp, a nonprofit organization he founded for underprivileged children.
2. British workers strike over retirement benefits.
Mass strikes began across the United Kingdom Wednesday, with up to 2 million public sector workers walking off jobs in schools, hospitals and police stations to protest proposed pension reforms.
As of lunchtime, the strike appeared to be having a limited impact on many public services, the government said, although more than half of the country's schools were closed, impacting many families.
Prime Minister David Cameron dismissed the industrial action as a "damp squib" -- a fizzled firecracker -- as he answered questions in Parliament Wednesday. "These strikes are wrong at a time when negotiations are going on," he said. Chaos was predicted at Heathrow airport near London, one of the world's busiest international airports, but as of Wednesday morning operations were more or less normal, officials said.
Lines at immigration counters were moving smoothly, but BAA, the company that operates Heathrow, said they could get worse and incoming passengers could expect waits of two to three hours because of strikes by border control staff.
3. Facebook settles FTC charges over 2009 privacy breaches.
Facebook has agreed to 20 years of privacy audits to settle a lengthy complaint from the Federal Trade Commission, which says Facebook misled its members about its use of their private data.
Facebook "deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public," the FTC said in its complaint. The complaint cites several examples of alleged false promises from Facebook, most of which took place several years ago. One example: In December 2009, Facebook changed its website so that some information that users had shared with a private group of friends was made public -- and users weren't warned about the change.