Game-making giant Hasbro has filed a lawsuit against Scrabble knock-off Scrabulous and sent a notice demanding Facebook remove the popular game from the social-networking website. Scrabulous.com was launched by brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla in India in 2005 and rocketed to popularity as a free "add-on" application for Facebook, where more than 500,000 people reportedly play the online word game daily.
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Moscow is the world's most expensive city for expats, while Tokyo has pipped London to move into second place, according to a global cost of living survey published Thursday. The study takes New York as the base measure for prices, comparing over 200 items, including housing, transport, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment, in 143 cities across the globe. 
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg painted a vision of an Internet future with the website in its soul to a faithful throng of software developers at the Internet firm's annual "F8" conference.. "Last year everyone here started a movement," Zuckerberg said Wednesday after cheers subsided. 
The world-famous Parthenon of the Athens Acropolis will undergo restoration work from 2009 that will see its western facade obscured by scaffolding for three years, officials said. The work will mainly be focused on repairing damage caused by the Greek uprising against Ottoman rule in 1821, when the facade was damaged by around 700 bullet holes, architect Manolis Korres said. 
Locals on a tiny storm-ravaged island off the coast of Ireland have battled to survive over the centuries -- but now hope that art will help save them. The island of Tory, lashed by Atlantic swells off Ireland's northwest coast, at one time appeared condemned to slow death, with plans drawn up to relocate its 142 residents and leave the ocean to do its worst. 
A lesbian couple in Australia failed on Thursday in a bid to sue their doctor after one of them gave birth to twins rather than one baby following fertility treatment. The women, who cannot be named, were suing Robert Armellin for more than 400,000 Australian dollar (388,000 US) to cover the cost of raising one of the girls to the age of 21, Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported. AP
Pope Benedict XVI apologized Saturday to victims of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Australia, describing their acts as evil and a grave betrayal of trust that has disgraced the church. "I would like to pause to acknowledge the shame which we have all felt as a result of the sexual abuse of minors by some clergy ... in this country," Benedict told Australian bishops and other seminarians at a Mass. The first group of Chinese visitors to arrive in Taiwan on newly inaugurated direct flights is receiving generally favorable reviews _ despite fears their alleged lack of manners would offend local sensibilities. More than 700 Chinese tourists arrived in the island over the weekend after flying across the 100-mile (160 kilometer) -wide Taiwan Strait on the first direct commercial flights _ aside from holiday charters _ since the two sides split during a civil war in 1949. The first group of Chinese visitors to arrive in Taiwan on newly inaugurated direct flights is receiving generally favorable reviews _ despite fears their alleged lack of manners would offend local sensibilities. More than 700 Chinese tourists arrived in the island over the weekend after flying across the 100-mile (160 kilometer) -wide Taiwan Strait on the first direct commercial flights _ aside from holiday charters _ since the two sides split during a civil war in 1949. Thousands of Islamists are observing the one-year anniversary of a deadly military crackdown on the radical Red Mosque in Pakistan's capital. More than 2,000 people have gathered on a tree-lined street outside the mosque known as the "Lal Masjid" for a conference Sunday. Attendees, including clerics and Islamist students, chanted "God is great!" and waved their fists. For a vivid insight into the clash of old and new in China, follow the bicycle. Morning rush hour in Beijing and Shanghai used to be rivers of cyclists flowing in a majestic hush down broad bike lanes. Today, many of those lanes have been taken over by cars and buses, their roar and honk drowning out the tinkle of bicycle bells. Special Reports
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A Qantas Boeing 747 flying to Melbourne made an emergency landing in Manila on Friday after a dramatic mid-air rupture that left a "gaping hole" in its fuselage, officials and passengers said. Stunned passengers reported how the jumbo, which originated in London and made a stop in Hong Kong, plunged 20,000 feet (6,000) metres in an "absolutely terrifying" ordeal.
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US actor Danny Glover, who plans an epic next year on Haitian independence hero Toussaint-Louverture, said he slaved to raise funds for the movie because financiers complained there were no white heroes. "Producers said 'It's a nice project, a great project... where are the white heroes?'" he told AFP during a stay in Paris this month for a seminar on film.
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Cadel Evans has been tipped to overhaul his 1min 34sec deficit to Spanish rival Carlos Sastre ahead of their duel for the Tour de France yellow jersey in the final time trial on Saturday. Sastre, who rides for the CSC team run by former Tour winner Bjarne Riis, stole the limelight on the final day in the Alps Wednesday by taking the lead thanks to a victorious attack at the bottom of the 13.8 km climb to the Alpe d'Huez.
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A Qantas Boeing 747 flying to Melbourne made an emergency landing in Manila on Friday after a dramatic mid-air rupture that left a "gaping hole" in its fuselage, officials and passengers said. Stunned passengers reported how the jumbo, which originated in London and made a stop in Hong Kong, plunged 20,000 feet (6,000) metres in an "absolutely terrifying" ordeal.
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Internet security researchers on Thursday warned that hackers have caught on to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the Internet. An elite squad of computer industry engineers that labored in secret to solve the problem released a software "patch" two weeks ago and sought to keep details of the vulnerability hidden at least a month to give people time to protect computers from attacks.
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