Bosnian police have tracked down a Bosnian girl who sparked a worldwide manhunt after she was seen in a web video throwing half a dozen puppies into a river.

The attorney general of the US state of Texas has opened an inquiry into whether internet giant Google manipulates search results.

Google has agreed to pay 8.5 million US dollars to settle a privacy lawsuit over a Buzz social networking tool added to free email service Gmail in February, according to court documents.

A British man who went to the Philippines to propose to a woman he met in an internet chat room was stabbed to death by her jealous lover, police say.

DEATH by iPod is being blamed as a contributing factor to the 25 per cent rise in the number of pedestrian fatalities in NSW.