proceeding

s will not be televised. Judge Ahmed Rifaat said his decision was made in the public interest, but he didn't

elaborate

. Mr Mubarak, who appeared in court in Cairo for a second time, is charged with ordering the deaths of hundreds of protesters in the uprising. The BBC's Jeremy Bowen has more details.

The trial of former President Mubarak and his two sons is a big test for the new Egypt. Once again, the omens weren't good with the trial judge struggling to bring order to what had become judicial chaos. The judge complained about the noise being made by more than 100 lawyers, telling them to sit down and to show some respect. He's banned any more TV coverage of the trial in what seems to be an attempt to make it less of a circus. The pictures, though, have

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ied millions in the Arab world, who thought they'd never see one of the region's strong men so humbled and humiliated.

The Internet giant Google has made its first significant move into hardware by announcing that it's to buy the American mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility. Rory Cellan-Jones has the details.

Google's Android operating system powers more smartphones than any other software. Now with the

acquisition

of Motorola, it will be able to make its own phones and tablet computers just like its great rival Apple, which has found that controlling everything from hardware to software to shops is the route to huge profits. But what may be more important to Google is the 17,000 patents that Motorola has accumulated over the years. With just about every major player in the industry suing each other at the moment, patents have become an important weapon in the battle for smartphone