2005-2014

In his New Year's address outlining his administration's plans for 2006, French President Jacques Chirac focused on plans for a European search engine to rival US internet companies such as Yahoo and Google. Some of the top tech labs in France and Germany are reportedly working on the 'Quaero' (Latin for 'to search') search engine. Those involved in the Quaero project, including Thomson, France...

Businesses that have long relied upon classified advertising in newspapers are starting to experiment with Craigslist, a free online bulletin board that is expanding its reach in Hawaii. Craigslist.org offers free classified advertising in all 50 states and 35 countries. More than 10 million people use the site each month to find practically anything -- cars, apartments, jobs, even sex. With 3...

CHICAGO Police in Palm Beach, Florida have found the body of a 22-year-old man on the estate of former newspaper mogul Conrad Black. Authorities found no sign of foul play. The man, identified as Emmanuel Issac, appeared to have set up a camp near the property's beach access tunnel. The body was found Friday by Black's property manager. A spokesman says Black was not at the estate that day. Black...

BEIRUT: The Gebran Tueni Annual Award, a prize that will be given annually to outstanding journalism students, was kicked off on Saturday at the Press Club in Downtown Beirut. Attended by several political and media representatives, the event also commemorated the passing of one month since the death of Tueni. "This is not some protocol meeting," said the head of the Press Club Youssef Howayek....

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today announced a contribution worth Rs 11 lakh towards a journalist foundation to be set up by renowned journalist Kuldeep Naiyar. Mr Singh made the announcement after Mr Naiyar sought financial aid from him towards the proposed journalist foundation. Earlier, Mr Naiyar announced to set up the foundation with Rs five lakh given to him by...

HT Media Ltd on Monday said it will invest Rs 385 million to fund its various expansion plans, including the launch of a business newspaper, the Press Trust of India has reported. New Delhi-based HT Media, which publishes the Hindustan Times English daily, said the money would be used for initial investments in the launch of a business newspaper, expansion for a Hindi newspaper in Madhya Pradesh...

The big story in Europe before Christmas was that the CIA operated clandestine prisons in eight European countries where it was questioning Al-Qaeda suspects and secretly flew the prisoners through European air space. Condoleezza Rice basically confirmed to European governments there had been clandestine flights, but "What prisons?" and the host governments named said, "No way." So it comes as a...

The United Nations will launch the first round of consultations next month on creating a new internet governance body, as agreed by delegates attending the global net summit in Tunis last year. The UN, which hosted the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in November, is welcoming all stakeholders to attend the consultations, which will take place in Geneva on 16-17 February, according...

BATON ROUGE (AP) – One recent balmy morning, Wilbert Rideau wandered around his backyard, dressed in shorts and sandals. He acknowledged the joy he felt was greater than others might experience, but for him it was one more milestone on a very long road. "It doesn't sound like a big thing to you," Rideau said. "But I spent 44 years in a place where they don't allow you to walk around in sandals and...

NEW YORK - Online news video is plentiful: NBC, ABC and CBS all have Web editions of their evening news, and CNN recently launched a four-channel broadband network carrying feeds not available on its U.S. cable channels. Best of all, most of it is free. ABC and CNN offer more through subscription packages, but unless you're a news junkie you'll do fine with the free offerings from both networks...