International drug syndicates are using social networking site Facebook to recruit young Malaysian women as “drug mules”, the deputy foreign minister said.

Google has agreed to pay a US couple one dollar for trespassing on their property while taking photographs for its “Street View” online mapping service.

Facebook film The Social Network picked up four awards, including best movie, from a key industry group in the first major honours of Hollywood’s awards season.

Thieves in Britain are using Google Earth to target lead roofs on Church of England buildings to sell on the lucrative metals market, says a Church spokesman.

Swedish police are to issue a new international arrest warrant for Julian Assange to replace one that could not be applied in Britain because of a procedural error.

Amazon, under US pressure for hosting WikiLeaks, has booted it from its computer servers, prompting the whistleblower website to shift to web-hosting services in Europe.

News trumped celebrities in 2010 as the BP oil spill and World Cup soccer topped the list of most-searched items of 2010, according to Yahoo!

A New Zealand online women’s magazine has defended a breast cancer campaign that encourages young women to submit topless pictures for publication on the Internet.

British tycoon Richard Branson has launched a glossy magazine for the iPad, getting the jump on News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch in the race to develop publications for the hot Apple device.

WikiLeaks’ mass exposure of US diplomatic cables has divided liberal intellectual opinion between supporters of total government transparency and those who see a threat to democratic rule.