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.

With the aim to restrain the Navy's use of sonar, off the coast of Southern California to protect whales, on Wednesday the U. S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to the environmentalists.

However, the debate in Washington State, where the Navy and environmentalists have argued over the use of sonar in naval exercises and its impact on marine mammals, including endangered Puget Sound killer whales; is not likely to get altered by the decision to allow the continued use of sonar.