Hypeline World News Report

Bebo has 40 million members worldwide Time Warner’s AOL internet division is buying the social networking site Bebo for $850m (£417m) in cash. Bebo is the third-biggest social networking site in the US, behind MySpace and Facebook. AOL says that Bebo has more than 40 million members worldwide who view an average of 78 pages [...]

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Monks protesting at Sera monastery Monks began to protest on the streets of Lhasa earlier this week Fires have broken out in the Tibetan city of Lhasa amid reports of rioting, as rare street protests led by Buddhist monks appeared to gather pace. One eyewitness told of how large groups of people were setting fire [...]

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  Witnesses said tanks were patrolling the streets of Lhasa Chinese authorities in Tibet have given rioters until Monday to surrender, state media report, after unrest that officials say has left 10 people dead. “The plot of the separatists will fail,” the head of Tibet’s government warned as clashes continued for another day in the [...]

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