Into Tech

Elements of Google’s privacy policy are “vague”, the firm’s global privacy counsel tells BBC News.

A theme park inspired by the adventures of schoolboy wizard Harry Potter is to open in the US in 2009.

Youngsters are meeting up with people they met on the internet, without their parents knowing, research suggests.

Eleven females, and no men, enter the Big Brother house as the eighth series of Channel 4’s show begins.

Coronation Street actor Bruce Jones, who plays Les Battersby,
is to leave the show, ITV confirms.

Spammers have knocked out the e-mail service for many of Tiscali’s customers, the net service provider says.

A large telescope funded and led by the UK nears completion on a mountain-top in Chile’s Atacama desert.

The new Pirates of the Caribbean movie goes straight to the top of the UK box office.

Cities in the US are using a global positioning software system in their efforts to control graffiti.

Singer George Michael had a cocktail of drugs in his system when he was arrested in his car last year, a court hears.

Online social music site Last.fm is acquired by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m (£140m).

Pop star Britney Spears confesses she “hit rock bottom” during her stay in rehab.

Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Bo Diddley is still struggling to communicate two weeks after he suffered a stroke.

Actress Lindsay Lohan admits herself to a rehab facility following her arrest at the weekend.

Microsoft debuts a new touch-sensitive coffee table-shaped computer called “Surface”.

Artist Mark McGowan eats a corgi live on radio in protest at the treatment of animals by the Royal Family.

A coroner tells the murder trial of music producer Phil Spector that actress Lana Clarkson’s death was homicide.

Channel 4 reveals the new series of the show includes a Women’s Institute member and a former lap dancer.

Music fans going to the Glastonbury Festival will be asked to reduce their carbon footprint.

A map of the UK featuring Bollywood film locations hopes to woo Indian tourists to Britain.