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Veteran games developer and console maker Nintendo has been taken to court by Tomita Technologies over an alleged infringement of a 2003 patent for glasses-free stereoscopic 3D tech.

The mother of the French woman who claims Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her in 2002 said on Tuesday that her daughter is filing a criminal complaint against the former International Monetary Fund chief because she wants justice in the case.

Is the Virgin Atlantic pilot strikes a sign of things to come for the embattled airline?

Dominique Strauss-Kahn faces a potential new sexual assault investigation on Tuesday as a young French writer says she plans to formally accuse him of trying to rape her during a 2002 book interview.

Celebrating freedom has helped Americans understand the pride and importance of the liberation we hold. However, has America lost its way with the decline in both what people believe America now stands for and the declivity of patriotism from younger Americans.

A New York Court just ruled that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to be released without bail, but prosecutors are not completely abandoning the case and the ex IMF chief is due to appear again on July 18.

The US magazine, Newsweek generated significant controversy this week after it used a picture of "Princess Diana at 50" on its front cover. The photograph, doctored to imagine what Diana may have looked like today, shows her walking side-by-side with Kate Middleton.

The prosecution case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund and French presidential hopeful accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid, is close to collapse, a report in the New York Times has claimed.

Virgin Atlantic pilots have voted overwhelmingly to strike over a four per cent pay increase. The strike, which has mass support amongst pilots, had a turnout of 94 per cent with 97 per cent voting in favour of industrial action. It is a significant blow to British travellers who will no doubt face holiday chaos this summer. The strike will affect key routes flown by Britain's, including Florida, the Caribbean, the Far East and Australia. The first walk out is expected this July.

Beijing tax authorities are seeking more than £1m in unpaid taxes and fines from the outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who was released last week after nearly three months in detention, one of his close friends has said.

It was a glorious, sunny day as I took my wife and kids to the Kasteel Meulen (Castle Mill) at the very top of the village of Mont Cassel, about 18 miles from Dunkerque. My children were excited to see a working windmill but, regrettably, there was not a breath of wind in the shimmering mid-summer heat and so, Blue Peter-like, we had to buy a bag of flour that the miller had already made.

Transocean ltd, the owners of the deep water horizon drilling rig that was destroyed by the explosion before the initial Gulf of Mexico oil spill has claimed that the full responsibility for the disaster should be placed on BP's shoulders.

In an article published on Monday, the New York Times reveals, after talking directly to the Taliban fighters, that many still blocks remain in the reconciliation process.

As Japan attempts to bury its head in the sand over the full scale of the Fukushima nuclear power meltdown there is growing concerns across the world that the United States is not taking the problem seriously enough.

Embattled Representative Anthony Weiner has told friends that he plans to resign his seat amid the controversy over his online relationships with several women, The Associated Press reports.

Pakistan's top spy agency has arrested five Pakistani informants who assisted the CIA ahead of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

A recent comment from an unnamed security expert to Bloomberg has indicated that like the recent attempt on Google's Gmail service, the recently revealed cyber attack on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) could have been state sponsored.

In the wake of Citibank's admission of a security breach on its network, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has since confirmed that it too has been the target of a sophisticated cyber attack perpetrated by an as yet unknown group of hackers or hacker.

With youth unemployment remaining at near record levels many university students graduating in the coming months will face a slew of challenges unique to their generation.

The actor Alec Baldwin is considering a run for mayor of New York City.

Luis Moreno Ocampo, the International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor said there is evidence that that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is using rape as a tool of war in Libya as he allegedly ordered the rape of hundreds of women.

Sony unveiled their long awaited next generation handheld, the PlayStation Vita, at the E3 Expo in L.A. earlier this week and Jack Tretton, the head of Sony's U.S. gaming division, used the opportunity to address the fallout from the recent PSN hack.

LulzSec's recent claim of a new successful hack on Sony's networks has come just after Sony's public apology to fans at this year's E3 expo, leading to fresh speculation about whether the company will be able to recover from its recent PSN hacking nightmare.

With Microsoft's E3 press conference out of the way, the IBTimes wraps up the key products and services it chose to reveal and demo at this year's expo.

After yesterday hacking Nintendo "just for LulzDec", the hacker group has today released a fresh statement claiming to have successfully breached Sony's online security again.

The French government has upped its quest to recover France and French integrity by allowing for a its broadcasting authority to ban any mention of the words Facebook and Twitter on the radios or televisions unless they are specifically part of the story.

The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has appeared in a New York court where he faces charges of sexual assault, unlawful imprisonment and attempting to rape a hotel maid last month. He was arrested by the New York police while boarding an Air France plane that was about to take off for Paris.

Amnesty International has been fighting torture and illegal imprisonment from its beginning. Since 1962 the group has denounced countries throughout the world where people are being detained and imprisoned arbitrarily without a fair trial, thus facing torture or other forms of ill-treatment while many are held in conditions that are so poor that these amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights no-one may be subjected to arbitrary ...

The Gaddafi saga is today continuing with the Libyan colonel still making headlines throughout the world. More interesting than a Hollywood star, the Kings of Kings is still mesmerizing us and his unknown whereabouts are turning him into a serious urban legend. The latest story sees the King of Kings slowly turning into a schizophrenic/paranoiac erratic mess.

Following the resignation of its Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahnafter his arrest for sexual assault last week in New York, the International Monetary Fund is now without a leader.In the next one to two month the international financial organisation has to appoint Strauss-Kahn replacement. The race is on to find a replacement and while Europe has claimed the need for a European to be appointed, due to the difficult financial crisis affecting many of its member states, China, Russi...