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International News Brief: A hi-tech gang may have taken one of Britain's most exclusive casinos for £1.3million in an amazing sting.

International News Brief: Sportingbet has halted plans to launch an online betting exchange after an announcement on a clampdown of the controversial websites.

International News Brief: Microsoft Corp. software designed for cash registers and slot machines played a persuasive role in the European Union's landmark antitrust case labeling it an abusive monopolist.

International News Brief: The future of Torbay's tourism received a boost yesterday after councillors backed the industry in a vote for a new £10 million casino complex.

International News Brief: Crime syndicates have cost betting companies millions of pounds in a series of internet sabotage attacks, it was revealed today.

International News Brief: An investigation into betting exchanges, whose emergence in recent years has been blamed for a rise in suspicious betting patterns in horseracing and prompted allegations of race fixing, is to be launched.

The Hendon Mob will challenge the world’s very best poker players in The British Open, at the Grosvenor in Victoria, London.

International News Brief: Heavy losses of last year wiped as favourites fall by wayside.

International News Brief: Chancellor Gordon Brown’s announcement of a review into the tax treatment of Internet betting exchanges and their clients was welcomed by traditional bookmakers today.

International News Brief: William Hill and Coral admitted they are preparing for a new wave of hacker attacks.

International News Brief: Irish trained Hardy Eustace caused a major upset by holding off Rooster Booster to win the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham.

International News Brief: Online poker is now the fastest growing form of internet gambling in Britain, while television shows such as the World Poker Tour have been winning huge audiences and attracting tens of thousands of new players to the game.

International News Brief: Holiday village operator CenterParcs UK has joined the throng of companies interested in cashing in on moves to deregulate the gaming industry.

Officials in the British city of Liverpool are in talks with Las Vegas casino resort operator MGM MIRAGE and with Las Vegas Sands, which owns The Venetian hotel-casino in Las Vegas, about developing a resort there, the Daily Post newspaper in Britain reported.

International News Brief: Leisure Parcs’ idea for a resort hotel-cum-megacasino in Blackpool has it’s share of skeptics who have a hard time envisioning the proposed gambling operation.

International News Brief: The UK Government may end up using strong-arm tactics against casinos to force them to move onshore.

International News Brief: Jair du Cochet, a leading contender for the Cheltenham Gold Cup, has had to be put down after breaking a leg.

International News Brief: The Jockey Club is to launch an investigation into the controversial race at Fontwell on Monday.

International News Brief: Bookmakers are suspending betting on odds on life existing on Mars.

International News Brief: Sky's new gambling channel 'Sky Vegas Live' will launch tomorrow at 6pm.