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withdrawal and they still hold other positions in the city. But these are coming under heavy attack too.

The internet company Google has agreed to pay $22.5m to settle allegation that it broke its privacy pledge to customers using the Safari web browser. It's the biggest fine the US Federal Trade Commission has ever imposed. Paul Adams reports.

The Federal Trade Commission launched its investigation after it emerged that Google despite earlier pledges had

overridden

the safeguards on its Safari web browser allowing advertisements to be shown to users and outside parties to monitor user's activity without their consent. Google maintained and still does that its actions were unintentional. An argument which dose not disappear to have impressed the regulator.

Australia's Race Discrimination commissioner Helen Szoke has urged the social networking company Facebook to remove a page depicting Aboriginal people in Australia as drunks and welfare cheats. The Australian government has accused Facebook of using its US base to avoid Australian anti-discrimination laws. The page was removed briefly on Wednesday but reappeared later with the label 'controversial humor'. In a statement, Facebook acknowledged the public concern but said it believed that sharing information invited debate and greater understanding.

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The interim government in Mali has said that military action in the north of the country is inevitable after Islamists cut off the hand of a man they said was a thief. The statement said the public