San Francisco - More than 1.7 million Facebook users have joined a protest against another redesign of the popular social networking site, in one of the biggest consumer revolts seen in the online world.

As of midday Monday, the Facebook group called Petition Against the New Facebook had 1,727,394 disgruntled members, while a Facebook- sponsored poll on the redesign had received more than 1.2 million votes, with just 75,000 approving the new look.

Wellington - The New Zealand cabinet on Monday abandoned a controversial new copyright law, which was widely condemned overseas, and decided to go back to the drawing board.

Prime Minister John Key told reporters that the law, designed to counter illegal downloading of films and music on the internet, was unworkable in its present form.

It was originally to have come into effect on February 27 but the government postponed it for a month to allow representatives of New Zealand's recording industry and internet service providers to negotiate a compromise agreement.

Lahore, Mar. 21: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s official website has been rated better than that of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari.

After comparing various South Asian leaders’ websites on the basis of layout, design and user friendliness, BBC News has given Indian prime Minister a score of six points out ten, while Zardari’s constantly “under construction” site got just four points.

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For nearly 3 months during the last year, the E-mail system of the Indian Prime Minster's Office (PMO) remained affected by a computer virus.

It is learnt that the PMO e-mail communication system was affected by the technical error caused by the Microsoft Outlook Express between February and April 2008.

The PMO maintained that many e-mails forwarded to the office didn't reach the inbox. The authorities were able to find out the problem only in the month of April.

Sydney, March 21: Facebook has left 94 per cent of its users, participating in a new poll, facing disappointment after making changes to its services.

The social-networking giant received the green signal from only six per cent of nearly 800,000 members who cast their votes.

Facebook had previously announced the makeover on every member’s homepage and changes were being introduced to a small percentage of its expanding 175 million members every day to prevent crashing the system.

London, Mar 21: Google has removed several images from its new UK Street View application.

The firm was forced to pull some of the images from the street-mapping facility following complaints.

It is thought that the pictures removed contained revealing images of homes, a man entering a London sex shop, people being arrested and a man being sick.

"We''ve got millions of images, so the percentage removed was very small," Google''s Laura Scott told the BBC.