Abuse prompts United star to sign off Twitter

Manchester United midfielder Darron Gibson was forced to cancel his newly-created Twitter account on Monday after just two hours when the Irish international was subjected to a tirade of abuse.

The 23-year-old, who was born in Northern Ireland but has won 16 caps for the Republic of Ireland, was also targetted for his controversial switch of national allegiance.
Some of the messages posted on his Twitter page included: "Darron Gibson is on Twitter, a traitor to his country".
Another one said: "You are an abysmal excuse for a footballer. You're a one trick pony - a s(expletive) one at that. What Fergie sees in you I do not know..."

Yahoo! buys TV show sharing startup

Yahoo! on Monday said it has bought a freshly launched startup that lets television viewers instantly share what they are watching with friends at Twitter or Facebook.

Yahoo! did not disclose how much it paid for IntoNow, which launched on January 31 in the Silicon Valley city of Palo Alto, California.

Facebook adds 'Send' button

Facebook on Monday began letting members of cozy cliques formed at the social networking service share website links or photo albums without all their friends knowing about it.

A "Send" button that lets people share website links with selected cadres instead of all Facebook friends was among enhancements being rolled out to a "Groups" feature launched in October of last year.

Afghan forces recapture 65 from Kandahar jailbreak

Kandahar:  Afghan forces have recaptured at least 65 of the prisoners who escaped from the south's largest prison, the government said Tuesday as it scrambled to recover from the massive security breach that allowed 480 inmates to be spirited out in a stunning jailbreak.

Prison officials discovered early Monday morning that the convicts - nearly all of them Taliban militants - were missing from their cells, and then found the tunnel through which they appeared to have made their getaway.

Indian student pilot attacked in Melbourne

Melbourne:  A TV channel in Melbourne reports that an Indian student was attacked and beaten till he fell unconscious.

7NEWS says that Rajat Tyagi, who was a trainee pilot, was attacked by five men as he left his apartment on Sunday morning.

In an interview to the channel, Mr Tyagi, who is from Delhi, described the men as African.

He said they used knuckledusters while beating him.

An article on the channel's website states, "He said he has heard no more from police since they arrived half-an-hour after the assault, and told him he was one of several similar assaults that night." (Read entire 7News article)

Account of Osama's escape from Tora Bora

London:  World's most-wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden escaped US and British forces, closing in on his cave-haven hacked into the mountainside, with the help of a Pakistani warlord who provided guides to take him to safety in northeastern Afghanistan.

The Al-Qaida supremo's successful flight from Tora Bora mountains in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan has long been seen as one of the key early lapses of the international military effort in Afghanistan and though various theories have floated, no firm account of how bin Laden evaded the US forces has yet emerged.

Two Indian students drown in Australia

Kangaroo Island, Australia:  Two Indian students drowned on Sunday after being washed off rocks in South Australia.  The men were part of a tour group visiting Vivonne Bay on Kangaroo Island.