The number of China's Internet users increased by 40 million to 338 million in January-June 2009, exceeding the total U.S. population, official news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.

Simply stated, it China passing U.S. internet users had to happen; the sheer number of people in China meant that it was a foregone conclusion. The only question was when. A study, admittedly by a Chinese research group, indicates that China has surpassed the United States, long the leader, in the number of Internet users.

It is a revolution that is changing the way prisoners see themselves – and view the world outside.

People searching the internet for information about suicide methods are most likely to come across sites that encourage suicide rather than sites offering help and support, finds a study by researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Oxford and Manchester published in this week's issue of the BMJ.

New research revealed that, like excessive gaming or virtual sex, e-mail and text messaging might be part of a compulsive-impulsive spectrum disorder and a form of addiction.

South Park fans will soon be able to watch any episode of the seminal animated show free online, thanks to a deal between Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Comedy Central's parent company, Viacom.

KidZui has launched its Internet for Kids browser-based service, promising safe access to the internet for children between the ages of three and 11.

China's State Council, the country's Cabinet, will make use of the Internet as a standard method of inviting public opinion on draft laws and regulations.

A research conducted by the team of Houston-based scientists revealed that most of the information on breast cancer that can be found on countless websites is true to fact and accurate. The research also showed that at least one in every 20 web pages provides false or inaccurate information on the disease.

The Industry Standard launched a new format on the Internet to provide analysis of the Internet economy. The new service appeared ten years after the original launch of the weekly print in 1998. The magazine stopped its existence three years later due to the appearance of similar sources on the Internet.

Internet speeds have slowed to a crawl in much of the Middle East and parts of South Asia after two underwater telecommunications cables were damaged Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea. The problems are also affecting telephone service in some places, and many businesses are struggling to work around the outages. VOA Correspondent Challiss McDonough has more from Cairo.

China witnessed an unprecedented success in tackling Internet spam last year, according to a report released by the Internet Society of China (ISC) in Beijing on Wednesday.