JOURNALISM

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.

Most Facebook users now find themselves keeping track of their day to day lives through popular networking sites, whether it’s through status updates, photo albums, videos, or friend requests. The new scrapbook approach that Facebook will soon be introducing aims to do exactly that for us.

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Fox News host Greta Van Susteren engaged in a war of words with Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson on her show on Monday over Carlson's decision to publish Mike Tyson's controversial comments about Sarah Palin.

Seventeen people suffered minor injuries Tuesday morning when scaffolding collapsed and hit a city bus in Harlem, the New York Fire Department said.

But the payment to the Dowlers may only be the beginning of News International’s expected largesse to phone hacking victims.

AOL and TechCrunch’s outspoken and controversial founder Michael Arrington parted ways on Monday.

For Emily Yates, the worst part of serving in Iraq with the U.S. Army was the loss of control.

The 18-day uprising that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is at the center of Tahrir 2011, a documentary named after the Cairo square that became a gathering point for protesters which premieres at the Venice film festival.

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A photograph appearing to show an emaciated Steve Jobs surfaced on celebrity website TMZ, which said the picture was taken on Friday, two days after he resigned as Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) CEO.

Mandatory anti-smoking warnings on U.S. cigarette packs are being challenged, this time by researchers who say the combination of grotesque images and explicit messages may not be effective in curbing smoking.

James Desborough, the Los Angeles-based U.S. editor of the News of the World, was arrested Thursday by police investigating the phone-hacking scandal at the paper -- becoming the first U.S.-based journalist arrested in the case.

Over the last decade blogging has been one of the hottest phenomenons of the Internet world, so we went to one of the hottest bloggers for how-to advice -- The Bargain Babe.

Emily Spickler, a 19-year-old American student and a part-time model, was found dead in her dorm at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, police officials said.

Britain needs to tackle deep-seated social problems following riots and looting in English cities this week, the center-right government said on Saturday, and a U.S. street crime expert it has brought in said arrests alone would not solve the problem.

British police flooded the streets to ensure weekend drinking does not reignite the rioting that swept London and other cities this week, shocking Britons and sullying the country's image a year before it hosts the Olympics.

Warrant frontman Jani Lane, 47, was found dead in a motel room in Woodland Hills, Calif. on Thursday of unknown causes.

Courts around Britain were struggling on Thursday to cope with a huge influx of people arrested during this week's riots, including a millionaire's daughter, a charity worker and a woman who handed herself in after suffering pangs of guilt.

The attacks are openly denounced by Pakistani military and political leaders.