Italian businessman Silvio Scaglia has been arrested pending questioning in an investigation into a claimed EUR2 billion (US$2.7 billion) money laundering scandal that has affected Telecom Italia and Swisscom. Click here for more.

Chinese authorities have punished hundreds of people in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for spreading rumours and separatist content through text messages during the Spring Festival holiday, reports OneIndia. Two persons were detained on Feb 20, while the rest received administrative punishments for sending illegal text messages, according to a statement released by the regional police. More ...

Sometimes you come across stories so odd, you just don't know how to classify them. You may have heard, recently, about the New England man, Gregory Girard, who was arrested for illegal weapons stockpiling in his home. The guy, who claimed that he believed Armageddon was quickly approaching, had recently told his wife both, "It's fine to shoot people in the head because traitors deserve ...

And here we go again. Apparently there was recently a "flash mob" snowball fight in Philadephia that got a bit out of control, resulting in a "rampage" through a Macy's department store. Nobody was hurt, but 16 people were arrested. So how are Philly officials dealing with it? They're threatening to sue Twitter and Facebook. Seriously. Two city council members say that those companies de...

IRVING, Texas - The Harris County Sheriff's Office has arrested two individuals suspected of cutting and stealing a Verizon copper cable in Crosby last month, disrupting telephone and Internet service and creating a public safety risk for customers unable to reach 911 service. The...

HyperMac showed us their new line of external iPod and iPhone batteries. Available in a rainbow of colors, you'll never have an excuse to not watch the entire Arrested Development series while in flight again.     writeFutureVideo({configEmbed:'/video/playerConfig.php?playlist=1&align=above&viewportWidth=380&viewportHeight=313&embed=1&ads=1&zone=homepage...

The Galleon hedge fund insider-information scandal resembles Agatha Christie’s “Ten Little Indians.” As of Monday, there was only one of the original characters left standing. Of the six people arrested in October before the dragnet widened out, only IBM’s former server chief Robert Moffat has yet to be charged. And there’s a deadline that expires next week on what&rs...

'I'm being arrested - running late' A Twittering satnav - what could possibly go wrong? The next version of Navigon's MobileNavigator iPhone app, 1.5.0, will feature both Twitter and Facebook integration, allowing you to alert you friends, family and millions of fans with your whereabouts, destination and estimated time of arrival.… The power of collaboration within unif...

State Rep. Peter Koutoujian said the House will work quickly to close a legal loophole that led the state’s high court Friday to overturn the conviction of man accused of sending sexually explicit messages to a minor. The Daily News Tribune reports. Matthew Zubiel of Beverly was convicted in 2007 of attempting to disseminate harmful material to a minor after being arrested in Marshfield the year ...

With various companies around the world making a nice profit by threatening people with "pre-settlement" cash demands to avoid a copyright lawsuit, it was only a matter of time until others got in on the action, even if they didn't hold the copyrights at all. Slashdot points us to the news of a University of Georgia help desk employee who has been arrested for trying to shake down a student w...