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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The $28 trillion credit default swaps market came under investigation on Friday by the European Union, adding to official pressures bearing down on a huge and opaque business that is widely blamed for aggravating the recent banking and euro zone debt crises.

The European Commission, the EU's executive body, said it is probing...

By Iain Mackenzie Technology reporter, BBC News

Google's "doodle" featured a carriage progressing from Westminster Abbey to a fairytale castle

The marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton was an event for the internet age.

Great traditions of state...

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp shares fell as much as 5 percent on Friday, a day after the software company reported a dip in its Windows operating system sales.

The world's second-largest tech company behind Apple Inc met Wall Street's profit estimate and beat on overall sales in its earnings report on Thursday.

But investors were concerned...

Foursquare was one of the sites affected by the technical fault

The online retailer Amazon has apologised for a fault in its web hosting service EC2, which knocked out many well-known websites.

Last Thursday's outage caused sites including Foursquare, Reddit and Quora to go offline, some...

This year we've been interviewing people who run Joomla Days around the world.

There are also unofficial conferences happening all the time that feature Joomla heavily and we're going to try and introduce them here also. These unofficial conferences won't get the same level of publicity as official Joomla Days, but it's useful for the community to...

J and Beyond is an international Joomla conference taking place in the Netherlands in early May.

The first J and Beyond conference was held in Germany last year and was a huge success, attracting Joomla developers from all over the world.

We spoke with Robert Deutz, one of the organizers, about this year's event:

1) Tell us a little about yourself...

The Monaco Yacht Show is the most presitigious superyacht show in the world.

Superyacht are yachts from 25 meters to over 90 meters long.

This year will be the 21st year of the event which attracts over 30,000 participants to Moncao, the small principality in the south of France.

Their new website for the event runs in Joomla: http://www.monacoyachtsh...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leading world economies agreed on Friday to put the policies of seven major nations under a microscope as part of a plan to prevent a repeat of the global financial crisis.

The pact was agreed by the Group of 20 nations after months of wrangling highlighted by China's fears that its policy of limiting its currency's rise was...