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Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday that government was considering blocking the use of social media services like FaceBook, Twitter, BlackBerry Messenger to prevent riots.

After four nights of the worst riots in decades, Britain's capital is quiet but the aftermath of the unrest continues with courts open through the night to deal with 1,200 arrested looters.

David Cameron is flying back from Italy to chair an emergency meeting in Downing Street after riots in London continued unabated in its third day.

The Australian Census will count same-sex couples who are married for the first time ever on Census night.

Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) on Thursday reported net revenues of $3.3 billion in the second quarter of 2011, up 28 percent from the second quarter of 2010.

British police officials revealed on Wednesday the arrest of an 18-yea-old teenager that authorities tagged as the mouthpiece of a hacking group identified as responsible for breaching the security protocols of Sony Pictures and a host of other websites.

Now with Activision ready for another record-breaking installment of the CoD franchise, the game publisher has filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum last week to stop Scottsdale, Arizona-based Domains by Proxy, Inc., the current operator of the ModernWarfare3.com, from further using the site.

When the Prime Minister took to the airwaves on Sunday night, one of the first things she tried to sort out was the rather confused issue of who pays the carbon tax. One of the downsides of calling the thing a "tax" is that the term "carbon tax" carries the redolent sense of something that will attach itself leech-like to every conceivable extremity of the ordinary householder's life.

The most talked-about woman in criminal news is continuing to lash out headlines even after being charged "not guilty" for allegedly murdering her daughter Caylee.

Casey Anthony would have to wait a little longer before she could be set free. CNN reported that the release date, after a not guilty verdict, has been rescheduled for July 17, not July 13 as originally planned in a statement released by Florida's Orange County Corrections last Thursday. According to the statement of Allen Moore, the department's public information officer, the new date is a result of "a detailed recalculation of the projected release date".

A juror in the Casey Anthony trial said on Wednesday that the jury was emotionally shattered after its acquittal of the young mother of murder, according to New York Times report.

Lindsay Lohan had dodged a bullet for consuming alcohol while she is on house arrest, and it seems she won't be wearing orange jumpsuits in the near future.

Independents Andrew Wilkie and Nick Xenophon have presented bills to phase out the live export trade over the next three years.

On June 9, the U.S. Supreme Court, by unanimous decision, upheld a $290 million jury verdict against Microsoft for willfully infringing a patent of a small Canadian firm. The case can be depicted as a classic David vs. Goliath or can be a plot to a John Grisham novel. However, what's more significant -- in the area of intellectual property law -- is that the Supreme Court has settled the issue of whether a lower standard can be used to invalidate patents.

John Hemming, the MP who named Ryan Giggs in Parliament, has spoken out the reasons why he went on revealing the footballer's name in court.

Actress Lindsay Lohan has got things planned during her house arrest. The actress has apparently outlined her game plan during what other consider as a 35-day “vacation”. Lohan was put under house arrest after showing up in Lynwood Jail Thursday over the necklace theft case she was embroiled with since February this year.

Lindsay Lohan was put under house arrest after showing up in Lynwood Jail Thursday over the necklace theft case she was embroiled with since February this year. Lohan started the day early going to the jail county Thursday at 5 a.m. She was not expected to turn herself in until June over the jewelry case hurled against her by the Kamofie & Co over the $2,500 necklace she was seen taking with her unpaid, as she left the Venice Jewelry store.

Within the same day that its managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn filed his resignation from the International Monetary Fund, the institution came out with its own official list of code of conduct for its officers and employees to follow.

The leadership of International Monetary Fund is now in disarray with the arrest and detention of managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn by the New York City police.

After pleading no contest Wednesday to the alleged stealing of the $2,500 necklace from a Venice jewelry store, the Los Angeles courthouse sentenced actress Lindsay Lohan to a two-week jail time.

A Malaysian who once was with the late Osama bin Laden’s band of warriors in Afghanistan and has remained on the FBI’s list of “most wanted terrorists” is reportedly now hiding in Mindanao in the southern Philippines.

Mel Gibson’s ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva has decided to let bygones be bygones and dropped the charges she filed against the actor in a court hearing recently.

Sony has admitted and confirmed that some of the credit and debit card data on its PlayStation Network for videogame players were stolen. Therefore, customers must take action in checking their accounts with their banks.

Senior royal sources have confirmed that no prenuptial agreement was drawn up before the Royal Wedding on April 29 and it was all Prince William’s idea.

The Philippines’ Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez resigned on Friday amid a swirl of controversy and criticism in her office’s handling of big corruption cases and the agency's allegedly low conviction rate.

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has remained firm on her North Korean counterpart's military programme especially its nuclear weaponry.

Sony Corp has warned its 75 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity online service customers to check their credit card accounts as some important credit card data such as billing addresses and other personal information may have been stolen by a hacker.

Plunder charges were filed Tuesday against former Philippine president Gloria Arroyo before the Department of Justice.

Just when everyone thought that Lindsay Lohan would be happy to escape three-year imprisonment when the felony grand theft was reduced to a misdemeanor and was sentenced only to 120-day jail time.