A US judge has ordered Google to expose to Viacom the video-viewing habits of everyone who has ever used YouTube in a decision condemned by the Internet giant and privacy advocates. US District Court Judge Louis Stanton backed Viacom's request for data on which YouTube users watch which videos on the website in order to support its case in a billion-dollar copyright lawsuit against Google.
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Japan, one of the most tremor-prone countries in the world, started work Thursday to beef up its undersea earthquake monitoring system. The system will be placed 1,000 to 2,000 metres (3,280-6,562 feet) beneath the ocean surface to gather data on seismic activity that will be transmitted by fiber-optic submarine cable to an above-ground observation centre. 
BlackBerry mobile devices do not pose a security threat and no permission is needed from the Indian government to make the service available, an official said Wednesday, according to media reports. Indian security agencies have previously expressed worries that militants may use the popular devices to communicate and that intercepting and tracing emails from them was difficult. 
Japanese mobile telephone content providers are setting up safeguards to protect young people amid shock after a disgruntled young man used his phone to document his plans for a stabbing rampage. An association representing the mobile content industry announced this week a list of 22 criteria that would allow online sites to use a label showing that they are suitable for minors. 
When Coroebus of Elis won the first Olympic sprint in 776 BC, the result was scratched on to parchment and read out in market places in the following days and weeks. This year, the Olympic 100 metres champion will be announced immediately, to billions worldwide, via a click of the mouse or a curious buzzing in their pocket. 
Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia said Tuesday that the Warner Music Group had agreed to join its soon-to-be launched music service programme, giving its device users access to music published by Warner. "Warner Music Group has been a pioneer in developing new digital music business models and we are pleased to have them" on board, the head of Nokia's entertainment unit Tero Ojanperae said in a statement. Science
In an unprecedented attempt to revive the tiger population in western India, authorities airlifted a female tiger to a national reserve Friday where it will join a male tiger delivered there last week. The tigers were carried by Indian Air Force helicopters to Sariska Tiger Reserve in the western state of Rajasthan, whose entire tiger population has been wiped out by poachers during the last decade. In an unprecedented attempt to revive the tiger population in western India, authorities airlifted a female tiger to a national reserve Friday where it will join a male tiger delivered there last week. The tigers were carried by Indian Air Force helicopters to Sariska Tiger Reserve in the western state of Rajasthan, whose entire tiger population has been wiped out by poachers during the last five years. Delegates at a U.N. conference decided against banning toxic waste exports, instead encouraging countries Friday to take their own action to address the steady stream of dangerous chemicals and old electronics that litter the landfills of poor nations. Support for the ban during the weeklong meeting on the Basel Convention was driven by African countries, who argued it was the best way to protect their citizens, and by the European Union, which already prohibits toxic exports. African and other poor countries at a U.N. conference pushed Friday for a ban on toxic waste exports, saying it would protect them from the steady stream of dangerous chemicals and old electronics damaging their health and environment. But activists and some delegates said the proposal was running into opposition from the United States, Japan and even India over concerns it would stifle growing recycling industries in the developed world that are booming amid the rising price of metals. African nations and other poor countries at a U.N. conference pushed Friday for a ban on toxic waste exports that they said would protect them from the steady stream of dangerous chemicals and old electronics damaging their health and environment. But activists and some delegates said the proposal was running into opposition from the United States, Japan and even India over concerns it would stifle growing recycling industries in the developed world that are booming amid the rising price of metals. Technology
A New Zealand man has put his soul up for auction to the highest bidder, noting that it is "a merry old soul" rather than a "funk soul brother" but that he would "would like to think there is a bit of funk in there somewhere." Walter Scott, 24, put his soul up for sale on New Zealand Internet auction site TradeMe, and so far has received more than 100 expressions of interest. Mobile phones are gradually making land-line telephones a thing of the past in Japan. For the first time, fixed-line telephones accounted for less than half of all calls made in a fiscal year, losing out to mobile units and Internet-based services, a government report said this week. Indonesia's inflation rate climbed to 11 percent after government fuel hikes caused the price of food and other basic goods to skyrocket, the Central Statistics Bureau said Tuesday. That sparked speculation that Bank Indonesia Governor Boediono could raise the benchmark interest rate for the third month in a row. It may have rattled windows and raised dust, but the blast that toppled a towering symbol of North Korea's atom-bomb project was a mere blip on a world map where more and more states may "go nuclear" _ or nearly so _ in the years to come. At a recent meeting of members of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the Ukrainian chairman sought to strike an upbeat note about the future, highlighting the "public and political momentum towards a world free of nuclear weapons." African nations and other poor countries at a U.N. conference pushed Friday for a ban on toxic waste exports that they said would protect them from the steady stream of dangerous chemicals and old electronics damaging their health and environment. But activists and some delegates said the proposal was running into opposition from the United States, Japan and even India over concerns it would stifle growing recycling industries in the developed world that are booming amid the rising price of metals. 
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Iran on Saturday offered to negotiate on its nuclear drive but without a freeze on uranium enrichment, in its first comments since responding to an international package aimed at ending the standoff. Its military chiefs, meanwhile, warned that the Islamic republic would close the Strait of Hormuz which is vital for oil exports and use "blitzkrieg tactics" in the Gulf waterway if it came under attack.
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Swedish pop group ABBA will never reform despite the success of "Mamma Mia!", the musical and film based on their hits, former member and songwriter Bjoern Ulvaeus said in an interview. Ulvaeus, who along with Benny Andersson wrote songs like "Dancing Queen" and "Waterloo", told the Sunday Telegraph he wanted fans to remember the band as "young, exuberent, full of energy and ambition".
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Venus Williams outhit younger sister Serena to claim her fifth Wimbledon crown in exhilarating fashion here on Saturday. The defending champion recovered from a whirlwind start by her younger sister to land her seventh Grand Slam title courtesy of a 7-5, 6-4 win.
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Mongolia has lifted the state of emergency imposed after deadly election riots hit the capital Ulan Bator, with the president Sunday appealing for calm amid lingering fears of further violence. In a midnight (1600 GMT) televised address President Nambariin Enkhbayar called for unity after the unrest that left five people dead following allegations of vote rigging.
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A US judge has ordered Google to expose to Viacom the video-viewing habits of everyone who has ever used YouTube in a decision condemned by the Internet giant and privacy advocates. US District Court Judge Louis Stanton backed Viacom's request for data on which YouTube users watch which videos on the website in order to support its case in a billion-dollar copyright lawsuit against Google.
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