Two passports lost or stolen in Thailand on separate occasions were used to board the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
Chemical arms watchdog OPCW has said Syria will likely miss its December 31 deadline to remove the "most critical" warfare chemicals from the country.
An unprecedented land grab for new web addresses has begun with fierce competition for new internet real estate including .app, .blog and .web.
The British newspaper arm of News Corp has admitted to victims that executives covered up the scale of illegal activity by destroying evidence.
James Murdoch looks set to survive a board meeting of BSkyB on Thursday even as questions multiply over whether he is a fit chairperson.
"It was the kind of place you get out of and you never want to go back again," said a former reporter of the <em>News of the World</em>.
The British Parliament will back a motion on Wednesday urging Rupert Murdoch to drop plans to buy the whole of broadcaster BSkyB.
Allegations that Gordon Brown was a target of illegal data gathering by Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers piled pressure on the media baron.
Rupert Murdoch flies to London on Saturday to deal with the escalating phone-hacking crisis engulfing his British newspapers business.
Hundreds of customers queued outside Apple stores in Asia and Europe to buy an iPad 2 tablet computer amid fears of shortages.