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International News Brief: Fernhart New Media is to launch a new gambling and horse racing portal, following its acquisition by business aggregator Netb2b2 last week.

International News Brief: Coventry appears to have taken pole position in the race to open Britain's first super casino, raising the possibility it might take Birmingham ten years to catch up.

International News Brief: Birmingham’s bid for a regional casino was set to come under pressure today with the launch of a rival multi-million pound project in Coventry.

News Brief: Gambling by mobile phone has rocketed, with the number of betting pages downloaded expected to approach three million this year, a rise of 367 per cent on 2004.

International News Brief: Rangers Football Club has been given planning permission for a £120 million Las Vegas-style super casino and hotel complex in Glasgow.

International News Brief: Online gaming firm 888 has set the price range for the planned sale of its shares on the London market at between 162-212 pence per share.

International News Brief: The roulette wheels could soon stop turning at casinos across the capital after staff at Gala’s five London casinos voted to take industrial action in a duspute about pay.

International News Brief: Glasgow yesterday launched a bid to build a £200 million super-casino, but it will not get off the drawing board unless the operator agrees to pay to rehabilitate any gambling addicts it creates.

International News Brief: The battle to identify a site for a Birmingham, England, super casino swung decisively behind the National Exhibition Centre last night.

A woman has won £196,000 with just 40 pence bet on Coral Casino.com.

International News Brief: A Las Vegas-style super casino in Glasgow would generate about £200m for the west of Scotland economy, according to a new report.

International News Brief: Muslims are being urged to drop opposition to a Birmingham super-casino in return for a promise that the project will regenerate a run-down inner city area.

International News Brief: Brian Maccaba, a prominent Irish technology entrepreneur, has resigned from the board of Money Gaming Corporation, an online gambling firm, less than seven weeks after being appointed as its chairman.

International News Brief: A city centre casino is the first drinking spot in Cardiff to apply to serve alcohol round-the-clock.

International News Brief: The Sports Café chain is to enter the world of online gambling with the launch of a web casino in September.

International News Brief: Casino operator Aspinalls has teamed up with community leaders in Newcastle to launch a committee promoting responsible gambling ahead of the opening of its Aspers Casino at The Gate in October.

For the third consecutive year, residents of the United Kingdom made up the largest segment of Las Vegas' growing overseas visitor count.

International News Brief: Singapore investment firm BIL International, subject of a takeover bid by Hong Kong's Guoco Group, said it planned to pay investors a higher dividend for 2005 and would apply for casino licences in Britain.

International News Brief: Robbers used a stolen lorry to smash through a casino and steal a substantial amount of money.

International News Brief: It is an odds-on bet that Birmingham will submit a bid to the Government for permission to open a super-casino, according to the politician in charge of the city's regeneration portfolio.