Microsoft, Yahoo and Google agreed to pay a total of 31.5 million dollars to settle a government probe into their role in promoting online gambling dating back to 1997, officials said Wednesday. The settlements marked the latest development in a US crackdown on Internet gambling, which has attracted a large number of Americans using offshore gaming websites. The Microsoft settlement totals 21 million dollars, including 4.5 million to the...

China's top leaders have decided that reining in a red-hot economy on the verge of overheating will be a priority in 2008, a year that they say is crucial to meeting the 2006-2010 targets of saving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) held the second meeting of the regular exchange mechanism on Friday, pledging to further exchange and push forward the healthy and stable relations between the two countries.

Just like fiber optic networks have enabled the rapid expansion of the Internet by enabling users to exchange huge amounts of data from anywhere in the world, IBM's technology is bringing similar capabilities to the computer chip

LONDON, Dec. 7 -- British communications industries' regulator Ofcom has ruled that firms which route phone calls across the net (VoIP) must connect to emergency numbers 999 and 112. 999 or 112 is the European Union's universal emergency...

We tend to associate suicide bombings with Palestina, Iraq, Afghanistan, but it also goes on in Sri Lanka where the local Tamil Tigers are fighting the Indian government for independence. Last weekend a video emerged of a female Tamil Tiger blowing...

Poultry carcasses are loaded onto a lorry for transportation at Redgrave Park Farm in Suffolk, 14 November 2007. Britain confirmed a second outbreak of potentially lethal bird flu, after a farm in eastern England was found to be infected last week.