All web searches for the country's most famous son: football player Diego Maradona were blocked by Yahoo! Argentina after a judge's temporary restraining order.

The world knows Maradona for his sleight of hand in the 1986 World Cup quarter final between England and Argentina, and presently he manages the Argentine national football team. However, if someone searches his name into Yahoo!'s Argentina-based search engine, he would get only the news results.

On Wednesday, new regulations developed to crack down on unlawful Internet gambling were approved by the US Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Board.

The US authorities outlined the regulations aimed at implementing an act passed by the US Congress in 2006, which seeks to prohibit illegal gambling on the Web in the so called "final-rule."

The US banks, credit card and financial companies are banned by the law from handling Internet gambling bets. It also has been the target of severe criticism that it would be an enforcement nightmare.

The new advertising channels were launched by Google Inc. on Wednesday, in order to allow companies run video advertisements on YouTube's search results. The platform which as of now is only available in the U. S., is similar to Google Adsene.

Matthew Liu, a YouTube product manager, reported, "We are trying to blend the best of Google with the best of YouTube."

The commercials can be linked by the advertiser to specific search words that are entered on YouTube. The video advertisements could be related to from selling merchandise to home improvement clips.

London, Nov 13 : It will now be possible to convert DNA strands into tiny fibre optic cables that guide light along their length, thanks to a new technology developed by scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Bo Albinsson and his colleagues have devised a way to make small-scale light-carrying "wires" that pipe photons to where they are needed, reports New Scientist.

The wires are made up from a mixture of DNA and molecules called chromophores that can absorb and pass on light.