LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Record first-half sales of video and computer games got a big boost from Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto IV" and Activision's "Guitar Hero III."
Authorities in Guatemala have halted the mass adoption process of some 2,800 children after discovering that some of them had been kidnapped from the parents.
Jul 25 - Footage captured on a mobile phone shows the moment when a Qantas plane was forced to make an emergency landing following a rupture in the planes fuselage.
Jul 25 - An attack on the Russian company Mechel's pricing policy by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin erased almost a third of its value early on Friday (25 July).
Raging forest fires sent smoke billowing into hotels on the island of Rhodes, prompting the evacuation of more than 2,000 tourists, the Fire Service and municipal officials said.
Jul 25 - Colombia's FARC guerrillas release eight hostages in the first such handover since the rebel group was tricked in a military operation to free Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other captives on July 2.
Jul 25 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Spain's King Juan Carlos are publicly reconciled following an earlier encounter when the king told the president to "shut up".
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - If like many people in our technology-ruled world you can't live without Google, video games, digital media and social networking sites like Facebook, this is your kind of art exhibit.
