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Only a few website owners are aware that obscure penalties applied by leading search engines cause unexplained falls in visitor traffic, according to a survey.

Governments including those of the U.S., Sweden, UK, Taiwan and India have issued travel advisories against all non-essential travel to conflict-ridden Libya, where a large number of casualties have already been reported.

Protesters in Bahrain appeared to gain the initiative on Saturday and mourners buried their dead in western Libya as the wave of protest washing across the Arab world tested more of the region's longtime rulers.

In support of gay and lesbian couples across the globe, Facebook has added extra options to 'relationship statuses: 'In a Civil Union' and 'In a Domestic Partnership'.

In response to the escalating violence in Bahrain and reports of the local security forces shooting protestors, the British Foreign Office has revoked 44 licenses for the export of arms to the embattled Persian Gulf kingdom.

Brokerage Jefferies & Co. said losers at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) are HTC, Motorola Mobility Holdings, Nokia, Sierra Wireless, Novatel Wireless, PC original equipment manufacturers (OEM), and Sony Ericsson.

Retail sales in the United Kingdom grew 1.9 percent in January compared with December and 5.3 per cent on an annual basis, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Friday.

The overall cost to the UK economy from cyber crime is £27bn per year, according to a report commissioned by the Cabinet Office into the integrity of computer systems and threats of industrial espionage.

Dr. Paul Beran, the Outreach Director at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University is a researcher, writer and teacher on civil society in the Middle East. International Business Times spoke with Beran to discuss the current unrest in the region.

You can't really blame financial hacks for getting things so wrong, so often. Because every financial decision you now make is a speculation on interest rates. And so pretty much every story a financial journalist might choose to write must start and end with the same speculation, built on the inaction of each monthly central-bank vote.

Britain is to examine why so many people end up on long-term sick leave, fuelling a 192 billion pound annual bill for welfare, Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Thursday. The government is already preparing to reassess the circumstances of 1.5 million people off work on long-term incapacity benefits to see if they are fit enough to return to employment.

For the sixth consecutive year, the number of divorces in England and Wales have fallen and have reached their lowest level since 1974.

The UK factory orders rose in February as demand for exports from the country continued to improve. Manufacturers’ total order book balance in Britain rose to -8 in February from -16 in January, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) survey showed on Thursday.

The 'Provisions on News Information Services', which was issued in 2005, states that the purpose of news websites is not to inform the public of the facts, but instead to “serve socialism” and to “safeguard the nation’s interests and the public interest.”

BAE Systems said it expected sales to fall in 2011 as the impact of defense cuts in the UK and U.S. begin to hit home, sending its shares lower.

Former JPMorgan banker Bill Winters is teaming up with Lord Jacob Rothschild, a senior member of one Europe's most revered banking dynasties, to launch an asset management and hedge fund business in London.

Virgin Media posted its strongest ever full-year financial results and said it expected to maintain the performance after adding a solid number of new subscribers and extracting record customer spend.

Indian refiner Essar Oil is set to buy Royal Dutch Shell's Stanlow refinery in the United Kingdom for about $350 million to $400 million, two sources with direct knowledge of the development told Reuters.

A day after the App Store subscription service was announced, Google introduces One Pass while Rhapsody rips Apple.

Holy Mount Zion of England's all-Jewish Maccabi Southern Football League has been suspended for league play amid allegations that non-Jewish players were used.

Google Inc launched a service to make it easy for publishers to sell digital versions of newspapers and magazines, undercutting a similar plan launched by Apple Inc, as both tech titans battle to dominate smartphones and tablet computers.