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’s activities outside the United States and Canada after complaints by European and U.S. privacy campaigning groups to the Irish commissioner and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

In commemoration of Assouline’s new stunning tome, “Judith Ripka by Judith,” Assouline, in partnership with Judith Ripka, launched an exciting Social Media contest where they will be giving away a pair of Eclipse earrings and a signed edition of the new book.

A 41-year-old Elgin man is charged with criminal sexual misconduct toward a child younger than 11, the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday.

Egypt’s military prosecutor said Wednesday it has opened an inquiry into a video showing a dozen Egyptian police and military officers beating and giving electric shocks to two detainees while laughing and filming the torture with their cell phones.

Police stand outside a Medicine Hat home in which three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were murdered in 2006.

All the talk of phone-hacking this summer has brought the thorny issue of mobile device security to the forefront of the news agenda.

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Catherine Devine had her first brush with an online bully in seventh grade, before she’d even ventured onto the Internet.

Cast member Taylor Lautner, left, takes a picture with fans at the premiere of “Abduction” in Los Angeles earlier this month.

Road safety charity Brake and Direct Line are warning of the danger of mobile phone addiction, as research reveals the shocking extent of driver distraction from texting, emailing and social networking.

Now if they can just get them to venture out of the “American bubbles” that can make the streets of study-abroad hot-spots like London, Barcelona and Florence, Italy almost feel like exclaves of Tuscaloosa or Ann Arbor.

Sleuth expert Stephen Booth, best known for creating the Cooper and Fry detective Duo, is due to sign copies of all his works and to chat with members of the public about his writing at the Book Boutique on Church Street in the town.

Now that the term “networking” has become part of the American lexicon, a Jacksonville entrepreneur wants to take credit for creating it in 1985.

Late this summer, Jennifer Lynn Hearn announced on Facebook that her husband had left her again but that she had found someone new.

Police have opened a criminal investigation into the suicide death of Buffalo, N.Y., 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer, who was bullied online with gay slurs for more than a year.