Toymaker Mattel went to court to declare that the name of its clean-cut Barbie dolls does not belong on a model’s pornographic website.

OPPORTUNISTS have registered commercial websites with very similar spellings to the official site for the campaign to find Madeleine McCann.

At least 16 people, many of them children, were killed in explosions at the office of a US security contractor in Afghanistan’s capital and a school in the south east as the country moves towards its first post-Taliban election.

IBM, the world's top provider of computer hardware, has said it has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to acquire privately held Candle Corp, an El Segundo, California-based company whose offerings are expected to complement Big Blue's middleware solutions.

US toymaker Mattel can sue a British dollmaker who turned squeaky-clean Barbie into an X-rated “Dungeon Doll” – but is unlikely to win the breach-of-copyright action, a judge has said.