A stunning reversal for police and prosecution in North Wales may herald the beginning of the end for controversial legislation on possession of extreme porn.

His face wracked by age and his voice rasping after decades of chain-smoking coarse tobacco, the former longtime Russian minister of nuclear energy and veteran Soviet physicist Viktor Mikhailov knows just how to fix BP's oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

A Pakistani lawyer has filed a "First Information Report" alleging that Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is responsible for the distribution of blasphemous Islamic content.

Iceland's government and parliament, the Alþing, has voted for the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), a law co-developed with whistleblowing website Wikileaks. The law is posed to turn Iceland into a press haven for journalists worldwide, as it is combines best-practice legislation from around the world in a legislative package designed to protect sources and whistleblowers.

Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, shaken by a spate of suicides at its China plants, said Wednesday it is raising the pay of workers by 30 percent, a greater increase than first planned. The company, which makes iPhones, iPads and other electronic gadgets, said the pay increase will take effect immediately at its plants across China.

The formation of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition Government has raised hopes that the controversial Digital Economy Bill will be repealed.New Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, described the passing of the Digital Economy Bill as a "stitch-up" between Labour and Conservative MPs, and a "classic example of what's wrong with Westminster".

A Yorkshire man has been jailed for five years for operating a chipping service for games consoles. Aamer Ali, 26, was certainly a busy bee - he also sold counterfeit games and DVDs and was a fence for stolen TVs and laptops.

Governments are ramping up online attacks on human rights advocates as the Internet becomes a key battleground for fights against oppression and censorship.

President Barack Obama's nuclear summit has paid early dividends: China's agreement to work with the U.S. on possible sanctions against Iran and Ukraine's decision to rid itself of nuclear bomb-making materials.

The U.K.'s House of Commons overwhelmingly voted in favor of creating a law that would enable copyright owners to seek the suspension of Internet service of those accused multiple times of illegal file sharing.

German protesters have demonstrated against the planned introduction of body scanners at airports by stripping down to their underwear and, in some cases, beyond.

Customers of China's two largest mobile phone networks, China Mobile and China Unicom, have had their texting service blocked after sending risqué messages, the state media claims.

It once hoped to change China with its search engine, but Google may wind up effecting more change by closing it down.

George Lucas's empire failed to strike back yesterday after he lost a legal battle with the British maker of Stormtrooper helmets for the film Star Wars.

Keith Vaz thinks that being able to shoot Russians airline passengers is wrong!

The first draft of version three of the GNU General Public License was released to the public this afternoon. Major improvements touted in version three include changes designed to mitigate the damage posed by new threats to free software such as software patents. One individual stated about the release: 'It is changes in law, not computer technology, that pose the principal challenges to the free software community. Chief among these changes has been the unwise and ill-considered application of patent law to software. Software patents threaten every free software project, just as they threaten proprietary software and custom software. Any program can be destroyed or crippled by a software patent belonging to someone who has no other connection to the program.

Mouthing off on the state of U.S. - China relations

The United States Government is once again trying to stomp on your online freedoms. A few months ago it was online pornography now it is online poker. Even if you do not play poker this is your issue if you believe in online freedom. The train is rolling people, its up to us to put a stop to it now!

Digg, it seems, didn't 'like' my stories, so blocked my IP address from signing up or logging in.

Bush administration earns D on 2005 Presidential Human Rights Report Card.

If this poor behaviour continues we may have to ask your parents come in.