The government will not "ram legislation through Parliament" to increase monitoring of emails and web usage, Nick Clegg has said.

The deputy prime minister said the proposals would be "published in draft" first to allow them to be debated.

Earlier, the Home Office said it planned to "legislate as soon as parliamentary time allows".

Ministers say change is needed to help fight crime and terrorism, but critics warn it is an attack on privacy.

Romanian Parliament is illuminated with blue light during the "Light It Up Blue" campaign on Monday night to commemorate the World Autism Awareness Day on April 2, 2012.

O2 continues to expand its free Wi-Fi offering, this time donning a hairnet to push into 1,200 McDonalds hotspots which will become O2 branded just in time for the London Olympics.

Not that there will be any additional Wi-Fi coverage; the clown-branded eateries already offer free Wi-Fi connections complete with family-friendly filtering, but over the next few months those connections will switch from The Cloud onto O2's free Wi-Fi service as companies are now competing to see who can provide the most stuff for free.

A former SingTel engineer took revenge on the Singaporean telco giant after being given the sack by sabotaging fibre optic cables on a staggering 600 separate occasions.

Thirty-five-year-old Terrance Tan Khoon Shan was handed a 15 month prison sentence after the disgruntled engineer was found guilty of cutting cables in various parts of the city-state island, according to Channel News Asia.

The BBC is to make 24 live HD Olympic streams available to cable and satellite providers.

The deal means viewers will be able to watch every Olympic sport live for the duration of the summer games through their TV sets.

Previously, the BBC had only planned to broadcast the streams online.

It will be the first time viewers have been given the opportunity to follow one particular sport throughout the day.

After 61 reigns unbroken by wars, social upheaval and at least one pregnancy, the Larimer County Fair and Rodeo Board has fired its teenage rodeo queen and her lady-in-waiting following disputes over money, management and mothers.

Queen Kaylin Schimpf and Lady-In-Waiting Kayla Myers, both 19, were terminated from the program last month after they refused to agree to changes fair managers wanted.

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