2005-2014

Microsoft Corp. is releasing an overhauled Internet search engine, under a new name, still looking for traction in a market where rivals Google and Yahoo! have continued to pull ahead. The Redmond company today plans to issue a preliminary version of Windows Live Search, with a new look and additional features that Microsoft says should make it easier to find information on the Web. The company's...

It’s like deja vu. Just over a month ago, Britain was awaiting the launch of two new women’s weeklies. Now, just as they've arrived on newsstands, two more publishers have let out word that they too will be launching two new women’s weeklies. On Monday, British publishing giant Emap said that it will spend more than $21 million on launching a magazine into the sector early this summer. And...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A magazine published by the science and reason-driven Center for Inquiry will publish some of the cartoons of Islam's Prophet Muhammad that have provoked deadly protests among Muslims worldwide. Free Inquiry's April-May issue, to be released March 15, will include four of the drawings which originally appeared in a Danish newspaper in September, the magazine's editors said...

It’s like deja vu. Just over a month ago, Britain was awaiting the launch of two new women’s weeklies. Now, just as they’ve arrived on newsstands, two more publishers have let out word that they too will be launching two new women’s weeklies. On Monday, British publishing giant Emap said that it will spend more than $21 million on launching a magazine into the sector early this summer. And...

Forty-six women journalists have been killed worldwide while doing their job since 1992, two are currently being held hostage in Iraq, and six others languish in jails elsewhere, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has said. RSF called for the release of Jill Carroll and Rim Zeid, held hostage in Iraq, and for six other women journalists who are imprisoned in Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran, Maldives, Nepal and...

The International Federation of Journalists has called for fresh actions by unions and media organisations to end all forms of discrimination that stop women from getting to the top both in media and in professional organisations. "Despite the feminisation of the profession, media houses and journalists unions remain male dominated," said Pamela Morinière, IFJ Gender Rights Campaign Officer. "This...

MAPUTO, 7 March (IRIN) - A controversy over how to respond to the publishing by a local newspaper of the controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, has highlighted differences within Mozambique's Muslim community. The independent weekly Savana last month reprinted 8 of the 12 cartoons that first appeared in the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten last year. Most Muslims in Mozambique were...

LOS ANGELES – Kevin Sites, the veteran war correspondent who provides dispatches from armed conflicts around the world for Yahoo! News, was announced Tuesday as this year's recipient of the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. Sites was chosen for his "style of work, the solitary commitment to truth, the selection of the newsworthy, the focus on the human faces, and the...

LOS ANGELES – Kevin Sites, the veteran war correspondent who provides dispatches from armed conflicts around the world for Yahoo! News, was announced Tuesday as this year's recipient of the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. Sites was chosen for his "style of work, the solitary commitment to truth, the selection of the newsworthy, the focus on the human faces, and the...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it had no involvement in the case of a Chinese journalist charged with sending subversive e-mails abroad under a pseudonym using a Hotmail account. The indictment of Li Yuanlong, a 45-year-old reporter, follows accusations that Internet giant Yahoo Inc. provided evidence to Chinese authorities that led to the imprisonment of two journalists....