MPs blame slow improvements The Department for Work and Pensions has failed to measure benefit fraud properly because of its slowness to improve IT.?

£25 Greengestion charge deep-sixed London's new mayor, the former knockabout media rascal and MP Boris Johnson, has ended the city government's legal dispute with German luxmobile firm Porsche. Johnson has scrapped plans set by his predecessor Red Green Ken Livingstone for hefty £25 daily charges on all higher-CO2 cars entering the capital, and agreed to repay the motor manufacturer's £400k legal fees relating to a planned judicial challenge agai
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Fanboys drop dirty bomb on collegiate dictionary Worshippers at the altar of Jobs rejoice: Merriam-Webster's latest edition of its Collegiate Dictionary has embraced fanboys among more than 100 new entries gracing its updated pages.?

Writes off £10.8m The Identity and Passport Service has written off £10.8m in dropping a scheme for electronic passport applications.?

In the wake of the Byron Review, tension is beginning to simmer beneath the surface of the normally peaceable games ratings industry. Dr Tanya Byron's recommendations put the UK ratings board, the BBFC, in a strong position to take on more responsibility (and work, and pay cheques presumably) but its rival, PEGI, is not out of the running yet. Big names in the industry like EA and Microsoft have come down in favour of the European-wide PEGI serv

ruphus13 writes "While most of the US was celebrating Independence Day, the true fellow geeks over at TrueCrypt released version 6.0 of TrueCrypt over the long weekend. The new version touts two major upgrades. 'First, TrueCrypt now performs parallel encryption and decryption operations on multi-core systems, giving you a phenomenal speedup if you have more than one processor available. Second, it now has the ability to hide an entire operating s
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HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe's ruling party and Zimbabwe's opposition are to resume talks to resolve the country's political crisis, state media reported on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will hit Tel Aviv, U.S. shipping in the Gulf and American interests around the world if it is attacked over its disputed nuclear activities, an aide to Iran's Supreme Leader was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Matthew McConaughey's Brazilian girlfriend has given birth to a boy, People magazine reported on its Web site on Tuesday.

After celebrating with a prom-themed party on Wednesday night and carrying on the fun with a trip to Disneyland on Saturday, it looks like Lindsay Lohan's birthday celebrations finally have come to a close as she reported back to work on the set of Labor Pains yesterday. She and Samantha wound things down with a low-key lunch date on Sunday ? which some tourists hilariously witnessed from the top of their sightseeing bus. The girls were then off
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Katie Armiger turned 17 last month, which means she probably should be gabbing about prom dresses and college plans. But music is her focus.

Loren Feldman is embroiled again in the middle of a controversy, and this time it doesn’t have anything to do with puppets.  Close to a year ago, Loren produced a series of videos under his 1938 Media banner entitled TechNigga, in which he attempted to bring to light the lack of black people in the [...]

After examining his biggest traffic sources, Louis Gray has noticed that links from blogs simply aren’t that important any more. I agree with his conclusions, although I don’t think that the data set he uses really proves his point. The fact is, there are links and there are links. A fleeting reference to a blog [...]

Peter Mandelson risked reigniting his public row with Nicolas Sarkozy today when he warned that he would not be bullied by the French president

The Russian state supported the murder of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, it was reported last night

The ramifications of Simon Mann's attempt to launch a coup in Equatorial Guinea are getting more exotic by the day, reports David Pallister

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Canadian band Nickelback become the latest act to sign with concert promoter Live Nation.