Four men connected to The Pirate Bay, the world's most notorious file sharing site, were convicted by a Swedish court Friday of contributory copyright infringement, and each sentenced to a year in prison.
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If you're indignant that your boss just shut the smoking room and outraged that you have to leave the bar to light up, take heart. Life could be worse. You could be Bhutanese.
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You've been "superpoked" - and served. A court in Australia has approved the use of Facebook, a popular social networking Web site, to notify a couple that they lost their home after defaulting on a loan.
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The half-billon note, worth about US$10, was released together with a Z$200-million, which the central bank said in a statement was introduced for the "convenience" of the public.
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A lot of people are having phobia of Friday the 13th, actually it's not that horrifying. Take a look at the resources provided and you will know better.
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In a vote of historic proportions yesterday, Senator Barack Obama became President-Elect of the United States of America with a 52% majority in the popular vote, and more than 349 electoral votes.
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Johannesburg - A video clip of a chair breaking under parliament's finance committee chair Nhlanhla Nene during a television interview has made international news.
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Domestic travellers leaving Melbourne Airport over the next six weeks will be asked to test new security scanners that can see through clothing.
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They may no longer dress like characters from the Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean, but the buccaneers of the 21st century have lost none of their taste for a bloodthirsty boarding.
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WASHINGTON — Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls
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CHINA has caved in to international pressure and recalled the 'ship of shame' carrying an arms shipment for Zimbabwe, which has been sitting on a time bomb since the March 29 presidential and parliamentary elections.
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ZANU PF’s strategy to fight back by ordering vote recounts in a bid to reverse its recent electoral defeat and buy more time for President Robert Mugabe is in disarray.
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Briefing media following a two-day conference in Pretoria, the department's Tshepo Seekoe said the acquisition had been finalised of 14 000 hectares of land in the Northern Cape's Karoo, where the telescope would be b
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