World News from the BBC
The Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has
exhort
ed political parties to back his government's five-year austerity plan. Mr Papandreou told parliament at the start of a three-day debate on the measure that it was the only chance for Greece to
get back on its feet
. International lenders have made the plan a condition of their support for Greece's heavily indebted economy.
The chairman of the Internet giant Google, Eric Schmidt, has warned that popular uprisings which used the Internet against
dictatorial
governments in the Arab world may lead to greater restrictions on it in the future. Mr Schmidt was speaking in Ireland at a conference against extremism. Mark Lobel reports.
Mr Schmidt warns semi-autocratic governments would soon regulate the Internet as much as television as its popularity grows. Google has already had issues with the Chinese government who blocked its Youtube site and censored some searches in 2009. Mr Schmidt also said Google employees risked
torture
in countries where some search material is considered illegal. Recently, the Egyptian authorities detained a Google staff member for two weeks during the Internet-organised protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
The Williams sisters, who
dominate
d the tennis finals of Wimbledon for more than a decade, have both been
knocked out
in the fourth round. Serena, the defending women's champion who has suffered health problems, lost to ninth seed Marion Bartoli of France. After her match, Serena said she was happy to have got as far as she did in the