THE UKs advertising watchdog is going to vet sites like Twitter and Facebook for the first time after receiving thousands of complaints about misleading online adverts. Last year the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 3,546 complaints regarding online adverts. However, more than half ...

ISLAMABAD (AFP) The government has blocked 800 web pages and URLs to limit access to 'blasphemous material, extending a crackdown that has already banned access to Facebook and YouTube, an official said Saturday. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) banned access to Facebook, YouTube ...

A FRAGILE manuscript telling the original story of how Sir Isaac Newton was inspired by a falling apple has been made public for the first time. The handwritten account of Newtons eureka moment, which led to his famous theory of gravity, was recorded for posterity by the scientists fri-end and ...

LAHORE - The reports of shadowy Indian gambling mafia wafting its way towards Pakistan cricketers during the ongoing Sri Lanka series had Pakistan team management on its heels. Team manager Yawar Saeed was quoted in Indian media as saying: "We were told by some of the players that a few suspicious ...

The Obama administration is starting a broad effort in Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent Taliban from using radio stations and Web sites to intimidate civilians and plan attacks, according to senior U.S. officials. As part of the classified effort, American military and intelligence personnel are ...

THE Encyclopaedia Britannica has unveiled a plan to let readers help keep the reference work up to date. Under the plan, readers and contributing experts will help expand and maintain entries online. Experts will also be enrolled in a reward scheme and given help to promote their command of a ...

A new online collection of millions of historic Jewish records is helping families trace their personal history. The documents on Ancestry.com include Schindler's List - the names of almost 2,000 Jews working for a German who employed them to save them. Their story was told in the Oscar-winning ...

VIRTUAL worlds can be valuable places where children rehearse what they will do in real life, reveals research. They are also a "powerful and engaging" alternative to more passive pursuits such as watching TV, said the BBC-sponsored study. The research was done with children using the BBC's ...

Commendable developments have materialized  lately on various avenues of energy sector in Asia with countries fostering forward their collaborations for fulfilling their energy requirements. The     dream of making Asian gas grid could transform the quest for energy by Asian ...