More than 80,000 people have signed an Internet petition to President Dmitri A. Medvedev demanding the release of a jailed pregnant lawyer.

The travails of a young company in Moscow offer a glimpse into the toll that the global financial crisis is taking on the budding entrepreneurial culture in Russia.

A lightweight, solar-powered Internet hookup created by a collaboration of nonprofit organizations provides communication in even the most remote areas.

Companies like Microsoft and Google plan to introduce Wednesday a global code of conduct that they say will better protect online free speech and privacy against government intrusion.

The country’s independent reviewer of terrorism laws, Lord Carlile, said the government should not be allowed to set up a vast “data warehouse.”

The country’s independent reviewer of terrorism laws, Lord Carlile, said the government should not be allowed to set up a vast “data warehouse.”

A portable computer hard drive that may have carried personal details on 100,000 British military service members is missing, the Ministry of Defense said.

A court suspended the license of a truck driver who drove on a highway with one eye on the road and the other glued to an episode of “Battlestar Galactica.”

Authorities linked Choi Jin-sil’s death to malicious online rumors, a growing problem in South Korea, which has one of the world’s most active online communities.

Authorities linked Choi Jin-sil’s death to malicious online rumors, a growing problem in South Korea, which has one of the world’s most active online communities.