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Yahoo executives feel "horrible" about political arrests of Internet users in China but believe it's better to operate in that market and cooperate with authorities than not be there at all, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang said on Wednesday. "It is more important for us to participate, not only for economic reasons, but to be able to [help shape where the industry is going]," Yang said during a...

Newspaper editor Jamal Amer arrived home just before dawn last August 23 after closing the latest edition of his independent weekly, Al-Wasat. A shout pierced the morning calm as Amer got out of his car, and, within moments, a man in a military jacket and traditional head scarf bundled the editor into a nearby Toyota pickup. Three men inside blindfolded Amer, bound his hands with cloth, and pistol...

A CNN-IBN employee was attacked and his vehicle set on fire in Lucknow's Hazratganj area on Tuesday morning, the channel has said. The attack came two days after CNN-IBN exposed the unaccounted wealth of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati. Four men with their faces covered dragged out two of the channel's employees from their vehicle and beat them up...

The student newspaper at the University of Saskatchewan has accepted the resignation of its editor after the paper published a cartoon showing Jesus Christ involved in a sex act with a pig. The Sheaf newspaper came under fire around the Saskatoon campus and on radio call-in shows after publishing its most recent edition. The issue contained a Capitalist Piglet cartoon that many people said was...

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...