The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has begun replacing adverts on websites suspected of piracy with official warnings in an effort to disrupt their revenue streams. When contacted by rights-holders, the unit will evaluate the copyright infringing ...

Zhou Yongkang is China's most senior official to be investigated since founding leader Mao Zedong's wife went on trial in 1980. 3:16pm UK, Tuesday 29 July 2014. Zhou Yongkang. Video: China Investigates Ex-Security Boss. Enlarge. Tweet ...

The Chinese Communist Party has announced an investigation into one of its most powerful politicians, the former security chief Zhou Yongkang. In a move which signals President Xi Jinping's hard-fought victory in a battle for supremacy over the party high ...

BEIJING (AP) - China's anti-monopoly agency announced an investigation Tuesday of Microsoft Corp., stepping up regulatory pressure on foreign technology companies. The State Administration for Industry and Commerce said it opened a case in June after ...

European flags are reflected at the entrance of the Berlaymont building EU Commission in Brussels on May 21,2014. © AFP PHOTO GEORGES GOBET. Tweet · Reuters. SEE ALSO. Wall Street Journal: Putin's strategy is complicated by rebel setbacks in ...

Heavy shelling rocked several cities in insurgent-held east Ukraine on Tuesday (29 July), as the EU moved to punish Russia for stoking the worst crisis in the former Soviet state since its independence. PHOTOS. A banner depicting Russian President Vladimir ...

As the European Union and the U.S. put finishing touches on sanctions that could ban the sale of technology related to the oil and gas industry in Russia, British oil major BP has warned that it could affect its business, the first sign that Western sanctions may ...

CAIRO (AP) — Militias fighting for control of the airport in Libya's capital agreed to a 24-hour cease-fire to allow firefighters to battle an out-of-control fire at its oil depot, authorities said Tuesday. The cease-fire agreement, reached late Monday night and ...

Microsoft, the US technology giant, is under investigation in China for allegedly breaching antitrust regulations, the country's market regulator confirmed on Tuesday. Initial investigations launched in June last year were unable to dispel suspicions that the ...

Microsoft, the US technology giant, is under investigation in China for allegedly breaching antitrust regulations, the country's market regulator confirmed on Tuesday. Initial investigations launched in June last year were unable to dispel suspicions that the ...

2014 has been a lackluster year for new Mac hardware refreshes—the year is half gone, and all we've gotten is a MacBook Air that's a little cheaper and a tiny bit faster and an iMac that's a little cheaper and a lot slower. Now the Retina MacBook Pro line is ...

A Liberian government official who succumbed to the Ebola virus had family living in Minnesota and was set to return to the U.S. next month, his grieving kin said. Patrick Sawyer died Friday after suffering extreme bouts of vomiting and diarrhea on a flight from ...

When a company puts up a blog post titled "We Experiment on Human Beings!" the usual instinct is outrage. But after Facebook caused an uproar by conducting a psychological study on its users, OKCupid unapologetically told the world they do the same ...

DUTCH and Australian investigators were early today again attempting to gain access to the MH17 crash site after battles between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels had thwarted their mission for a third day. The Australian Federal Police and their ...

Computerworld - Apple today refreshed the MacBook Pro line with minor upgrades of the processor, small price cuts to two models, and additional RAM for the least-expensive Retina configurations. The updates -- the first since October 2013 -- were expected ...

Computerworld - Apple today refreshed the MacBook Pro line with minor upgrades of the processor, small price cuts to two models, and additional RAM for the least-expensive Retina configurations. The updates -- the first since October 2013 -- were expected ...

Nigerian gold medallist Chika Amalaha has been provisionally suspended from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after failing a drugs test. Amalaha, 16, won weightlifting gold with a combined total of 196kg in the women's 53kg category. Amalaha's 'A' ...

A building within the Gaza port on fire Shells hit fuel tanks at Gaza's only power plant, causing a massive explosion and black smoke to billow into the air. Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images. Hopes of a new ceasefire in the three-week-old Gaza war ...

BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed overnight and Tuesday morning in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi during heavy clashes involving war planes and rockets between government special forces and Islamist fighters, medical sources ...

CAIRO, Egypt — Militias fighting for control of the airport in Libya's capital agreed to a 24-hour cease-fire to allow firefighters to battle an out-of-control fire at its oil depot, authorities said Tuesday. The cease-fire agreement, reached late Monday night and ...