Russia has agreed to allow American troops and weapons to fly over its airspace on the way to Afghanistan, the New York Times reported...

'New York', the first big Bollywood film to hit America after the industry strike, has won good reviews from US media with the New York Times praising its portrayal of problems faced by a Muslim...

NEW DELHI: The commerce and industry ministry has proposed a marginal hike in the FDI limit in FM radio from 20% to 24% and raising the limit in infrastructure-related activities of the...

Vote CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The head of Venezuela's telecommunications regulatory agency said Friday that 240 radio stations will have their licenses revoked for failing to update their...

Online video and its possible effects on entertainment, cable and telecoms has become a hot topic on Wall Street, and Time Warner's "TV Everywhere" initiative to make cable-network content...

Authorize.net . It's a little unclear exactly when the fire at the Fisher Plaza data center started--some reports say Thursday night, others say just after midnight Friday. A message on Bing...

For generations, The Washington Post has been a scrupulous watchdog over the capital’s cozy world of power networking. For a short time, it almost became the network’s...

- Nielsenwire NEW YORK As the Big 3 American automakers attempt to change public perception and get their cars back on the right track, Nascar may be the best sponsorship vehicle. Not only...

BERLIN -- Andro Steinborn has resigned from Berlin-based production house X Filme Creative Pool and its co-production arm X Filme International. As head of X Filme International since its launch...

Steve Brennan, a 20-year veteran reporter and editor at The Hollywood Reporter, died Thursday at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles after a yearlong battle with cancer. Brennan was well-known...

denverpost.com ? Of course. Which Broncos player hurt his toe, and how badly does it hurt? Next, does it look like E.T. or Mayor Hick? This newspaper tracks the number of reads of stories on its...

-By James Hibberd NBC News has scheduled its controversial To-Catch-a-Terrorist investigative program, where an elite team hunts war criminals. The Wanted will premiere Monday, July 20, at...

The Tribune Co. has struck a deal with A.H. Belo to sell national print and online ads for The Dallas Morning News. "We are going to take advantage of what we have built as a company to give...

Reporting from Washington -- When inviting U.S. lawmakers to a private dinner at the home of the Washington Post publisher, the newspaper did not mention that it wanted to make money from the event...

- David Gianatasio BOSTON Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps makes his Subway TV ad debut -- joined by the chain's longtime pitchman Jared Fogle -- in a new commercial slated to break during...

ESPN and BSkyB are set to launch a joint bid to screen the Scottish Premier League (SPL) from next season, with an announcement expected as early as today. The broadcasting giants are understood to...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Greg Bell, co-founder and co-creative director of hot indie shop Venables Bell & Partners, San Francisco, is departing the...

David Carradine (Getty) The medical examiner who oversaw a private autopsy on David Carradine said Wednesday that the "Kung Fu" star died from asphyxiation and the way the actor's body was bound...

Jay Leno (Getty) GENEVA, Switzerland -- Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas man found by a U.N. agency to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct Internet...

NEW YORK -- Hilary Duff is joining the cast of "Gossip Girl" -- but not on a regular basis. The CW series' spokeswoman, Melissa Burton, says the 21-year-old singer and actress will guest-star...

WASHINGTON -- Government guidelines to spend $4 billion to expand broadband access to underserved areas across the U.S. may go beyond current laws, a broadband industry group said Thursday. ...

COLOGNE, Germany -- Mark Williams may be British and Premiere may be a German pay channel, but for both July 4 will be Independence Day. The date marks the rebranding of Premiere as Sky...

Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas man found by a U.N. agency to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct Internet users to a real estate Web...

Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas man found by a U.N. agency to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct Internet users to a real estate Web...

Lori Drew, the woman convicted of using a hoax MySpace profile to harass a teenage girl to the point of suicide, was acquitted by a Los Angeles judge on...

The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed Thursday that is has opened a formal investigation into the settlement between Google and book publishers over the digital publishing rights to certain books,...

NEW YORK - The Washington Post asked lobbyists and business leaders to pay $25,000 to attend a dinner discussion with government officials and journalists at the home of its publisher, and then...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- One of the world's largest advertisers, Unilever, is launching a massive review of its media planning and buying later this month encompassing 13 countries around the globe....

Global Gaming Factory X (GGF), which purchased The Pirate Bay for $7.7 million, says it plans to turn the site into a legitimate, profitable source of downloadable media through data transport. The...

Off-deck mobile content provider Dada Entertainment has begun laying off a number of employees. The scope of the layoffs is not yet clear, nor is the future disposition of the...

South Florida’s sports teams are among the lowest ranked in the nation when it comes to what they give back to fans in exchange for their time, money and emotion...

LONDON (AdAge.com) -- Internet ad spending is forecast to keep growing despite the recession, but the mix of online spending is changing as display falls further out of favor with marketers, leaving...

Most of the stations, in cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and Dallas, moved their digital broadcasts from the UHF band to the VHF band on June 12, when they turned off their analog...

CBS is close to signing "How I Met Your Mother" co-star Neil Patrick Harris to host this year's Emmys. The two-time Emmy nominee is fresh off a well-received performance hosting CBS' Tonys...

Piper Perabo (Getty) Piper Perabo has been tapped as the lead in USA Network's spy thriller "Covert Affairs." The project, which has been quietly casting two major roles for the past month,...

"The Late, Late Show" host Craig Ferguson has been touring Kosovo and Germany as part of a USO/Armed Forces Entertainment tour that began June 26 and ends Thursday. He is visiting five military...

ESPN The Magazine ’s 7th annual “Ultimate Standings.” The feature ranks all 122 North American teams from the four major professional sports franchises based on criteria such as...

Major League Baseball . The Capitals took the No. 6 spot, shooting up from its No. 45 ranking last year thanks to Alex Ovechkin and a surge in ratings and attendance. The rest of D.C.’s teams...

NEW YORK -- Chase Carey could earn up to $43.1 million in salary and bonuses in his first year after recently agreeing to return to News Corp. as president, COO and deputy chairman with a five-year...

TORONTO -- Canada's continuing fire sale of local TV stations got rained on this week as cable operator Shaw Communications pulled plans to buy three over-the-air outlets from CTVglobemedia for $1 ...

PARIS -- The European Commission in Brussels greenlighted France's tax break for big-budget foreign productions on Thursday, after the "TRIP" law was passed by the Gallic government in December,...

By RACHEL LA CORTEASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER OLYMPIA, Wash. -- As newspapers across the country struggle through a brutal economic climate, papers in Washington state are getting a tax break. A new...

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Corona marketer Crown Imports is seeking a media agency to handle buying and planning for its brand portfolio, which includes the Corona Extra, Corona Light, Modelo Especial...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Gap Inc. is busy finalizing a deal with Crispin Porter & Bogusky to handle its flagship brand's holiday campaign, according to executives familiar with the matter. The move...

BERLIN -- Matthias Alberti is stepping down as co-head of German free-TV at European broadcast group ProSiebenSat.1, the company said Thursday. Andreas Bartl will remain as sole managing...

-- Country album sales dropped 24% last week compared to an 8% drop for the market. But country continues its digital progress. Year to date, digital accounts for 11.4% of album sales. That's just...

It is only a matter of time before a controversial scheme to install Internet filtering software on all computers begins in China, a state newspaper said on Thursday, after the plan was abruptly...

scored higher than Atlanta’s other three professional teams, according to ESPN the Magazine’s seventh annual rankings of all 122 professional sports teams in America. The annual Ultimate...

says. The Canes’ first playoff run in three years helped push the team up 15 spots on the annual Ultimate Sports Teams list, which ranks teams based on how well they “give back to the...

"Domestic violence is a serious law enforcement and public health problem affecting as many as one in four women in this country," but "Washington has devoted too little attention to reducing...