The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement said Monday (Nov. 2) it would meet with five of the research firms currently providing set-top box data as a first step towards figuring out how the data could be used to measure TV

The Nielsen Co. has joined forces with the Westminster, CO-based direct marketing firm DataLogix in a partnership that the research giant believes will go a long way toward fulfilling the promise of online ad targeting.

KARACHI, Nov 4 (IPS) - Almost 400 Indian fishermen continue to languish in Pakistani prisons despite having completed their prison terms. Their release has been hampered by tensions in the relations between their country and neighbouring Pakistan.

NEW YORK, Nov 4 (IPS) - The USA Patriot Act, rushed into law by a panicky U.S. Congress in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, gave the government broad surveillance powers to spy on innocent citizens.

COLOMBO, Nov 4 (IPS) - Sudarma Senevirathana's teenage daughter is at an age when she can already be given the 'rubella' vaccine, administered free of charge by government health officials at schools.

LAHORE, Pakistan, Nov 4 (IPS) - Lahore, known to the world as "the city of the live-hearted" has been in the grip of extreme fear since Oct. 15, the day when three suicide attacks took place here simultaneously.

AMMAN, Nov 4 (IPS) - Leila Khaled became an instant icon of the Palestinian struggle in 1969, when at 24 she was an operative in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacking of a Boeing 707, the first

KAMBIA DISTRICT, Sierra Leone, Nov 4 (IPS) - They call her "Marie Nerica", after a new breed of rice.

KAOLACK, Senegal, Nov 3 (IPS) - Farmers are complaining about a lack of technical assistance and the poor quality of seeds they've planted this year in the Kaolack region, Senegal's groundnut-producing area, 200 kilometres south of the capital Dakar.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 3 (IPS) - As the global financial crisis continues to ravage the fragile economies of the world's poorer countries, the United Nations is hosting a high-level international conference next month to boost South-South cooperation.

NEW YORK, Nov 3 (IPS) - A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought against a former U.S. attorney general by a Canadian citizen who sought damages for being unlawfully detained by U.S. authorities in New York and

GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 3 (IPS) - Construction is expected to begin soon on a new highway across north-central Guatemala, the largest infrastructure project tackled so far by the government of Álvaro Colom.

WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama's extraordinary efforts since his first days in office to reassure Muslims in the Greater Middle East about U.S. intentions in the region have suffered a series of setbacks that threaten to

KAMPALA, Nov 3 (IPS) - Specioza Nakabugo (63) sits on a mat under a mango tree on a well-mowed grass patch, her expression a blend of boredom and gloom.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 3 (IPS) - Until the Taliban were forced to flee by the military, the militant group's deadly opposition to vaccination had been severely hampering efforts to make Pakistan a polio-free country in the foreseeable future.

SANTIAGO, Nov 3 (IPS) - The official version of Chilean history renders women's political participation "invisible" and relegates them to a secondary or anecdotal role, says journalist Cherie Zalaquett, author of a new book, "Chilenas en armas" (Chilean Women in

NEW YORK, Nov 3 (IPS) - The long road to the proverbial day in court just got longer for five men who claim they were "disappeared" and tortured by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.