Advanced hackers have targeted US and European energy companies in a cyber espionage campaign that has in some cases successfully broken into the core systems that control the companies’ operations, according to researchers at the security firm Symantec.

THERE are many ways to approach writing a video game column. One method is to Google an obscure fact and then pass it off as your own knowledge. 

Beijing intensified efforts at the weekend to pull China’s stock markets out of a nosedive that is threatening the world’s second-largest economy, with top brokerages pledging to buy massive amounts of shares and a report that the government has set up a market stabilisation fund.

The iPad 2 can be bad for your heart — with a study showing is some cases the tablets interfere with lifesaving heart devices because of the magnets inside.

Taiwanese MPs want to punish the makers of Johnnie Walker whiskey for a British ad campaign that some felt maligned the island’s image.