It is unlikely that many of the investors falling over each other to buy into Facebook's flotation are long-term users. If they were they mightn't be quite so keen on joining the gold rush because they'd know that quite a few of the dot.com darling's users often don't seem to like it very much.

Outlook It is unlikely that many of the investors falling over each other to buy into Facebook's flotation are long-term users. If they were they mightn't be quite so keen on joining the gold rush because they'd know that quite a few of the dot.com darling's users often don't seem to like it very much.

If only there were a well-worn idiom about people living in glass houses. Perhaps "people who live in glass houses... really shouldn't live in glass houses"? Or at least not this one.

A Turkish court has begun a trial against Britain's Duchess of York for allegedly taking part in the secret filming of two orphanages in Turkey, the state-run news agency said.

The broadcasting watchdog, Ofcom, is to investigate Sky News’s admission that it broke the law by hacking into the email account of the “canoe man” who faked his own death.

The footballer Ryan Giggs yesterday lost his long-running legal claim over the privacy dispute last summer that led to his being mocked on Twitter for seeking to gag the press.

Civil rights campaigners have warned that people are "in the dark" about how Google's new privacy policy could affect them.

Former President Nelson Mandela was released from the hospital Sunday after an overnight stay for minor diagnostic surgery to determine the cause of an abdominal complaint, a spokesman for the country's current leader said.

The High Court has refused to continue a privacy injunction won by the teenage son of the Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman, as it was revealed that the court battle has so far cost the Spelman family £61,000.

Robin Corbett, who has died of lung cancer, was always a man of the people. When he was two, his family was deported from Australia because of his father's political beliefs. This inspired a fire and determination to fight injustice and fundamentalism, whatever the climate. As Labour MP for Hemel Hempstead, then Birmingham Erdington, he proved to be a combative campaigner.

A High Court judge is considering whether a damages claim made by Manchester United and Wales footballer Ryan Giggs against The Sun newspaper should be thrown out.

The card and identity protection group CPP has claimed the Financial Services of Authority could put it out of business after the City regulator demanded a massive review of past sales to identify how much mis-selling went on.

A Cabinet minister's teenage son has won an injunction in the High Court against a tabloid newspaper to stop it from publishing a story about his private life.

With the sort of money that pop, film and sports stars earn, it can be difficult for ordinary people to feel sympathetic to their situations. Yet for the famous, quite removed from the superficial pampering they receive, there are many challenges and dangers that the non-celebrity does not have to cope with.