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International News Brief: Mobile entertainment revenues are set to soar over the rest of the decade, owing to a rapid expansion in mobile content, including gambling.

International News Brief: Will it be a monkey on Michael or a pony on Tony? Neither, according to political punters, who are rushing to a lay a carpet (that's £3) on Charles Kennedy instead.

International News Brief: Paul Maxfield returned home with the largest sum ever netted by any Briton in a poker game in the United States.

International News Brief: Sheffield United have announced they have not dropped plans to build an £80 million casino at Bramall Lane.

International News Brief: Police have arrested four men in connection with a robbery in Bristol in December.

International News Brief: Coventry Conservatives received support for lobbying for the city to have Britain's first supercasino, Michael Howard said last night.

International News Brief: William Hill is offering the world's worst odds for Chelsea to win the Premiership title.

International News Brief: The French have taken to online gambling like a duck a l'orange to water, according to Europe-wide figures from analysts Nielsen//NetRatings.

International News Brief: Large casino complexes do not pose a threat to British society, despite concerted opposition to their establishment under the new Gambling Act, said Prime Minister Tony Blair.

International News Brief: The government could renege on an agreement to build only one super casino and instead allow at least four, it emerged today.

International News Brief: Isle of Capri was today granted a gaming licence for its casino at Coventry Arena.

International News Brief: The future profitability of the controversial attraction is at risk because the structure is unlikely to be able to house a megacasino.

International News Brief: Chinese gangsters are alleged to be laundering cash by lending it illegally to hapless punters on a losing streak

International News Brief: Drastic cuts in UK government ambitions to reform the gambling industry appear to have pole-axed foreign investors, but the battle for the British gambler's pound is not yet over, casino operators said on Friday.

Chartwell Technology Inc. is pleased to report the passage of legislation in the United Kingdom that will introduce regulated online gambling.

International News Brief: Bingo hall operator Gala is checking its numbers for a possible stock market flotation, it was said today.

International News Brief: American casino operators were livid last night over the Government's latest retreat on the Gambling Bill, which will limit a new class of mega-casinos to just one venue.

International News Brief: Multi-million pound developments are in jeopardy after the city's Glas-Vegas dreams were stopped in their tracks.

International News Brief: The organisers of the Grand National have delayed the horse race by 25 minutes to avoid a clash with the royal wedding and allow the BBC to cover both events in full.

International News Brief: Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell today conceded that there will only be one regional 'super casino', instead of the eight previously planned by ministers.