Recently it was it formed by the European Commission that European competition law has been violated by Microsoft by including Internet Explorer with Windows.

It was also informed by the Commission that since Windows includes Microsoft's own browser; the other browsers are prevented from competing with IE.

It should also be noted here that under the European law, IE's inclusion is not made by the remedies put in place under the US government's landmark 2002 antitrust settlement with Windows lawful.

Microsoft had agreed to separate IE from Windows and permit users to de-select IE as their chosen browser under that ruling.

Berlin/London  - Thousands of Europeans gathered in cities across the continent Saturday to protest the ongoing Israeli offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Aside from scuffles in the German cities of Kassel and Duisburg, where anti-Israeli protesters had to be separated from pro-Israeli demonstrators, very little violence was reported across the continent.

Most protests were focused either at national leaders - calling on them to lend diplomatic support to Mideast peace negotiations - or at the Israeli and US embassies in various cities.

Prague - The European Union family faced a serious split on Friday as the bloc's justice m

Vienna - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is concerned about a possible credit crunch in Central and Eastern Europe, in case Austrian banks start pulling out funds from stalling economies in the region, the daily Der Standard reported Friday.

Austrian banks have issued around a quarter of total foreign loans in CEE countries, trailed by Germany and Italy, according to the still unpublished report by the Washington-based IMF.

Zagreb - Croatia's best-known sculptor Dusan Dzamonja died of diabetes at the age of 81 on Wednesday morning in Zagreb, media reports said.

Dzamonja, one of the former Yugoslavia's greatest modern artists, was famous for his colossal monuments to the partisan struggle during the World War Two.

His works showed a tendency toward experiments, his style was modern and very expressionistic with intense shapes and symbolical meaning and the use of nails, steel and glass in sculptures.

Zurich- The Arab world will soon have its own language channel on the website of the ruling body FIFA, it was announced on Wednesday.

The Arabic channel joins English, Spanish, French and German versions of the popular site and is to reach out to an audience of around 350 million Arab speakers.

The new channel will be launched shortly ahead of the June 14-28 Confederations Cup in South Africa, FIFA said in a statement. It will be presented ART (Arab Radio & Television), one of FIFA's long-term broadcast partners.