The large fromage of Sony France has been held hostage overnight in the company's doomed Pontonx-sur-l'Adour manufacturing plant.

Serge Foucher has gone to the plant to meet 311 sacked workers to discuss the closure of the facility on April 17th but the fiery Frenchies decided they didn't like what was on the table by way of compensation, so they barricaded the stunned exec inside the site with tree trunks.

A Chinese new mother is producing so much breast milk that she baths her baby in the excess each day.

Mother, husband and her mother-in-law had all been drinking the extra milk but she says they still have plenty left over.

But she is looking for someone to donate her extra breast milk to as she feels that bathing her baby in breast milk is too much of an indulgence.

"Simply put, if a station plays a song, both the author and the performer should be paid," he continued. "These particular performances must have value to the stations or they wouldn't be playing them."

Corgan was testifying on behalf of the Performance Rights Act, which "would close a loophole in copyright law that allows music radio stations to earn billions every year without compensating the artists and musicians," according to a statement from the legislation's backers.

Bill Gates' charitable foundation has pledged $12.5m to help the world's poor access banking services.

The foundation, set up by the founder of Microsoft, has earmarked money for 20 projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Vodafone is in the process of rolling out its M-Pesa system in other countries, including Tanzania and Afghanistan.

In an interesting turn of events, Ryukishi07 of the doujin circle 07th Expansion has acknowledged and approved of Witch Hunt's translation project for Umineko no Naku Koro ni via email, according to a post by one of the translators.

In closing, he mentioned that he will warmly watch over this endeavour and hope that everyone will continue to enjoy Umineko no Naku Koro ni.

Swiss coppers using Google Earth accidentally found a huge marijuana plantation.

Investigation of the Google image location resulted in the arrest of 16 people and seizure of 1.2 tons of dope as well as cash and valuables worth 900,000 Swiss francs ($780,000).

With this news, it seems their "crazy plan" was a success - and why wouldn't it be? After all, most of their sketch material is tailor made for the typical Youtube viewer, and it's not as if they would have been better served by a traditional television marketing campaign.

Could it be, despite all of the RIAA and MPAA's clamoring about piracy killing their business, that free and less restrictive content is actually the answer to their woes?

Treating your consumers like criminals may not be the best way to convince them to buy your shit. Just sayin.

Corey Smith was a high school teacher, doing weekend music gigs. Then, apparently, his manager had a revelation and started giving all of his music away for free: and last year Corey brought in $4.2 million. And the music industry is complaining that if the government doesn't step in creative content will cease to exist?

However, as an experiment, they took down the free tracks from Corey's website for a period of time last summer... and sales on iTunes went down.

But, still, the real money maker for Corey is concerts, and even here he's doing something innovative: making concert tickets cheap: $5.

Visitors to the former British colony of Virginia will have to undergo a further humiliation of registering online.

Normally they would be able to visit under the US Visa Waiver Program but now they will have to apply online for an Electronic System of Travel Authorisation before boarding a plane to the Land of the Free.

A six-year-old who recently stole his parents' car and drove it into a utility pole has passed the buck onto a familiar scapegoat: the video game, Grand Theft Auto.

However, not as of yet has anyone under the age of, oh, ten, blamed the game for a car theft.