A plan to turn the Harry Potter train, the Hogwarts Express, into a tourist attraction appears to have been thwarted by the threat of legal action by Warner Brothers
Broadband net users in the UK who are worried that their PCs could be subverted by malicious hackers can now let anti-virus companies keep an eye on their machines for them. Security company McAfee has launched a subscription service that uses the web to protect a PC against viruses and attacks by computer vandals
Dr Laura, the queen of talk-show intolerance, is learning — the hard way — that the internet will hold her accountable, one angry bulletin board posting or e-mail after another
Canadian fisheries officers are catching cross-border crab poachers in Boundary Bay using a high-tech digital camera with the power of a 65-times zoom lens
Hewlett-Packard board member Walter Hewlett and other opponents of the proposed HP-Compaq Computer merger on Thursday filed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission a proxy statement to ask shareholders to vote against the deal at a special HP shareholders meeting next year
Hours after Monster.com parent TMP Worldwide declined to up its bid for recruitment web site HotJobs.com, Yahoo finalised its agreement to buy the job board for approximately US$436 million
The web site which provides News Interactive subscribers with archive searches on News Limited’s publications in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, has been massively effected by a suspected viral outbreak
Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has launched a stern crackdown on Cambodia’s night life, unveiled a new punishment Wednesday for rogue karaoke bars — destruction by tanks
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is reportedly concerned about the title of the second film in the trilogy, The Two Towers, but won’t try to change it
An Irish Protestant minister who does not believe in xmas or that Jesus was the son of god has been suspended from his post for three months to reflect on his statements
An enormous squid that grows seven metres long and lives more than 1,000 metres under the ocean, has baffled scientists with what they call its strange looks and weird behaviour
Arsonists are being blamed for most of the bushfires that are raging throughout NSW, destroying homes and threatening lives in a destructive rampage that is expected to get worse by the weekend
For many elderly people in Britain, computers and the internet are a mystery. Latest official figures show that only one in 10 of those over 65 years old are online. But for one elderly British woman, an early xmas present of a Sony laptop from her stepson, computer consultant Bill Thompson, has opened up a whole new world
A hungry bear ate a hunter in Russia’s Jewish autonomous region in the country’s far east
A British man who went underground behind blast-proof doors and thick concrete to avoid a family xmas has emerged early because he was dying for a pint of beer
A rare case of chest injury in one marijuana user may offer a cautionary tale against home-made bongs
A Florida company is poised to become the first to sell microchips designed to be implanted into human beings, an achievement that opens the door to new systems of medical monitoring and ID screening
The European Space Agency has hit back at American proposals to scale down the operations of the International Space Station
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has denounced as a crime Israel’s decision to ban him from a highly symbolic xmas eve Mass in the West Bank town of Bethlehem
Drop it from a tall building? Hardly a scratch. Shoot it with a submachine gun? It survives. But run it over with a sport utility vehicle or kick it like a football and it crumbles, according to a just published investigation into that evergreen xmas question: How can you get rid of the fruitcake?