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Consumer privacy groups on Friday sought to derail Google Inc.’s $3.1 billion deal to buy online ad supplier DoubleClick Inc., filing a complaint with U.S. regulators to block the merger on privacy grounds. Groups led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center have filed the complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission arguing the merger would […]

The Crown Prosecution Service will be considering whether to charge anyone over the ‘cash for honours’ scandal after detectives completed their probe. The Metropolitan Police said a 216-page document was given to prosecutors with supporting material. The scandal involves claims that peerage nominations were exchanged for sizeable contributions to leading political parties. Scotland Yard’s findings

The Virginia Tech University student who shot 32 people to death on campus this week mailed a package of images and video messages to NBC News during his rampage. After killing two students in a dorm on the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus on April 16, Cho Seung Hui, 23, sent the package, NBC News said in

Willie Gary, a Florida attorney whose personal Boeing 737 has an 18-carat gold bathroom sink, claims Motorola owes him at least $11,000 an hour for work on a lawsuit against the company. But he’s pushing for more — twice as much — because Motorola violated a court order in defending the suit. And a Fort

President Bush’s appointments to the US Supreme Court yielded fruit for conservatives yesterday as justices voted 5-4 in favour of outlawing late-term “partial birth” abortions. The ruling declared that the legislation, signed by Mr Bush in 2003, did not violate a woman’s constitutional right to abortion. It will encourage religious conservatives — who hope to

A delicate police and Customs operation lasting almost a decade has ended with more than 75 years jail for money launderers based in Yorkshire. The passing of final sentences has also ended a long ban on reporting details of the case for fear of prejudicing trials and putting the patient work of detectives and financial

The individual has been identified as Cho Seung-Hui, 23. Cho was enrolled as an undergraduate student in his senior year as an English major at Virginia Tech. Cho, a South Korean native, was in the U.S. as a resident alien with a residence established in Centerville, Va. Cho was living on campus in Harper Residence

KC Johnson does not fit the stereotype of blogger, journalist, legal analyst or lacrosse fan. Yet in the last year he has become all four. The bow tie-wearing, Harvard- educated professor is the prolific blogger behind Durham-in-Wonderland, writing hundreds of posts about the Duke University sexual assault scandal. A tenured history professor at Brooklyn College