2009-07-03 22:07
Michael Jackson's death is the latest news event where Twitter played a central role - but just as quickly has its susceptibility to false rumours become apparent.
2009-07-04 11:37
A rare pygmy hippopotamus has been born at Edinburgh Zoo, officials say and it has been called Leishan, a word meaning "gift".
2009-07-03 13:05
Back-breaking interconnect fees hamper consumer cost savings, South Africa's Internet Service Providers' Association (Ispa) has said.
2009-07-03 10:58
Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies.
2009-07-03 12:17
Nasa has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He will tweet from space in Spanish and English.
2009-07-03 08:55
The Nigerian Senate has passed a bill to forbid energy firms from burning gas during oil extraction from 2011, ending a practice that harms the environment.
2009-07-03 10:00
Microsoft is integrating messages from prominent users of Twitter, the hot micro-blogging service, into the results generated by its new internet search engine Bing.
2009-07-03 10:58
Several PC makers have included controversial internet-filtering software with computers shipped to China despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory.
2009-07-02 11:33
Computer security firm Sophos has issued a warning about an internet virus transmitted from a mass email claiming to contain secret songs and photos of Michael Jackson.
2009-07-02 09:11
University students who spend hours a day online are more likely to be overweight and to have health problems, according to a Hong Kong survey.