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ITsafe is a new government service to provide home users and small businesses with proven, plain English advice to help protect computers, mobile phones and other devices from malicious attack.

DFID money is being given to British business consultants and accountancy firms to promote water privatisation in developing countries.

Two Britons found to have libeled McDonald's after the longest court case in English legal history did not have a fair trial, the European Court of Human Rights ruled.

A man has denied attempting to hack into a website set up to raise funds for victims of the Asian tsunami.

The meeting opened with a reminder to delegates that technology leads to real progress only when fully supported by people, "not to mention governments and industry".

"The bottom line is that emissions are going up and with the current Bush administration policies they are going to continue to go up."

A long ignored human rights crisis is now on the brink of catastrophe.

Panos London launch WSIS toolkit looking at how "at the moment it seems that the internet is free, democratic and unstoppable. But a closer look reveals controversies..."

A high-level delegation led by Amnesty International is to visit Kathmandu to assess the human rights situation following the declaration of the state of emergency in the country.

as BBC Reporter is Killed in Somalia. This year so far 6 journalists have already been killed worldwide and press freedom is increasingly under threat. Reporters without Borders highlight Mounting tension between authorities and news media in Togo.