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The Council of Europe plans to establish an Internet user charter to guarantee the rights of consumers in an era of increasing government attempts to seize control of the Web, its deputy secretary general said on Tuesday.

An Egyptian court said on Tuesday it would review proceedings of the trial of Hosni Mubarak to rule on a request to change the panel presiding over the case of the ousted president, who is charged with conspiring to kill protesters.

Egypt's parliamentary election will start on November 28, a military source said on Tuesday, launching the process of handing back power to civilian rule nine months after President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising.

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Young people across the globe are having more unprotected sex and know less about effective contraception options, a multinational survey revealed on Monday.

Protesters associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement took an impromptu march up Broadway, clashing with police officers, and getting arrested in the process.

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The PlayStation Network has been restored after it was down for most of Wednesday giving log in error messages for the second time this year.

The PlayStation Network is experiencing yet another outage that began on Wednesday morning and has continued throughout the day.

The head of Arab TV channel Al Jazeera said on Tuesday he was leaving the network, but gave no reason for his departure at a time when the station's coverage has played an important role in unprecedented protest movements rocking the Arab world.

A federal appeals court said on Monday that the 17-year prison sentence imposed on Jose Padilla, a US citizen also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah, who was convicted of aiding terrorists in 2007, was too lenient.

Egypt approved on Monday the establishment of a party led by a former top official in Hosni Mubarak's now disbanded party and rejected another set up by an Islamist group, the committee charged with reviewing party applications said in a statement.

Palestinian leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to seek United Nations membership -- a stance that puts them at odds with the U.S. position. The Obama administration maintains that direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians remains the only route to reconciliation.

The U.S. has been stepping up its efforts to mediate between both Israel and Turkey -- its critical allies in the region

Protesters congregated in New York's Financial District on Saturday for a global Day of Rage movement called Occupy Wall Street to protest corporate greed in a demonstration set to last days.

Protestors involved with the Occupy Wall Street demonstration have started their pilgrimage toward Wall Street, where they have started to set up camp for an indeterminable amount of time in order to curb the influence of big business over Washington lawmakers.

The fact of the matter is that violent crime in the United States has been falling across the board for at least the past five or six years.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg cautioned Friday that social unrest in the United States could ensue if action is not taken by policy makers to create jobs and lower the U.S.'s high 9.1 percent unemployment rate.

Facebook is a technology business, but during an interview Friday at the Paley Center, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg made it sound like a digital utopia.

Forces loyal to Libya's new rulers surged into the desert town of Bani Walid Friday in a fierce attack on one of the last strongholds still in the hands of Moammar Gadhafi loyalists that could prove a major turning point in the war.

Morocco's trade deficit expanded 22.6 percent in the January-August period from a year ago to 122.2 billion dirhams due mainly to higher spending on energy imports, official data showed on Thursday.