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By Alex Dobuzinskis

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The director of the White House war on drugs said on Monday that Internet videos that show people getting high pose a dangerous threat to teenagers by encouraging them to use drugs and alcohol.

John Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, spoke as his office released a study about drug-related videos on popular sites such as MySpace. He said in a Reuters interview that parents need to monitor their teens' online activities.

Through internet software called 'SKYPE', Students at Holy Cross Grade School Blessed Sacrament Center were able to communicate by telephone through the internet with other Bishop Heelan Schools .

Now through an agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co. , MySpace hopes people will increasingly print these images and, eventually, buy photo-embellished merchandise, too.

A Pennsylvania eighth-grader recently learned a hard lesson: At least one federal judge says school officials can reach off-campus and into cyberspace and the home to punish what the court agreed was a 'vulgar ...

Tropical Storm Marco was closing in on Mexico's coast early Tuesday and threatened to hit with near-hurricane strength winds later in the day.

Marco was a small tropical storm with winds extending out only up to 15 miles from the center, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

In the Gulf of Mexico, the country's state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said Monday it had evacuated 33 workers from four offshore platforms, closed six wells and shut down a natural gas processing plant in Veracruz state ahead of Marco's arrival.

British actress Minnie Driver opted for MySpace instead of the pages of a glossy magazine to reveal the first image of her baby son.

Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton are embroiled in a foul-mouthed internet fight. The pair - who were once friends - have been trading insults on popular social networking site Facebook.

The college roommate who helped Mark Zuckerberg start Facebook is leaving the fast-growing social networking website in a matter of weeks to create a new Internet technology firm.

IBM on Monday launched a major cloud computing initiative , in an effort it hopes will challenge the early lead of cloud pioneers such as Amazon and Google.

There is a problem with the computers that serve the social networking tools -- blogs, forums, story comments, etc.

Aside from its military and development work, Canada's biggest contribution to the war effort in Afghanistan may well be Tim Hortons coffee.

FIRE fighters are currently tackling a blaze in the Monks Eleigh area. A crew from Hadleigh were called to the scene of a stack fire on Boyton Hall Road, at around 4.30pm this afternoon.

A Lexington County man is accused of having sex with an underage girl that he met on a social networking site.

From birth announcements to consumer surveys to genealogical information, Internet predators are finding new ways to exploit even Web users who consider themselves safe and savvy, a consumer advocate warns.

Social network Hi5 has launched a site translation project, a week after the announcement that the company had created a "crowdsourced translation" app for use on the OpenSocial developer platform and several ...

The two men running to be Montana's next attorney general have recently announced plans aimed at protecting children, particularly in an age of Internet predators.

US presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama have released their technology policies, differing on whether "Net neutrality" rules should be imposed on telecommunications companies and on the breadth ...

Staff at a hospital have been banned from using social networking websites after a picture of a nurse baring her breasts appeared on Facebook.

One of two remaining at-large suspects in the double homicide on Plymouth Street was last seen robbing and pimping in the southern state of Georgia, Mountain View police said.

Journalists attend a condolence meeting to pay homage to Soumya Vishwanathan, who died under mysterious circumstances earlier this week, in New Delhi yesterday NEW DELHI: A television journalist murdered ...