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Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users.

The office, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, will have advertising and developer support teams, the company said Monday. It will supplement Facebook's other centers in Palo Alto, California; Dublin, Ireland; and Austin, Texas.

The move is part of a push to create support centers across time zones, with round-the-clock, multilingual support, the company said.

Repressive regimes have stepped up efforts to censor the Internet and jail dissidents, Reporters Without Borders said in a study out Thursday.

China, Iran and Tunisia, which are on the group's "Enemies of the Internet" list, got more sophisticated at censorship and overcoming dissidents' attempts to communicate online, said Reporters Without Borders' Washington director, Clothilde Le Coz.

Meanwhile, Turkey and Russia found themselves on the group's "Under Surveillance" list of nations in danger of making the main enemies list.

Aparecen unos 500 niños, del club Pont d'Inca Nou, y sobre la pista azul de cemento ven a un tenista que se entrena tres horas diarias con la raqueta, que mañana y tarde hace preparación física mientras prepara su vuelta: es Rafa Nadal, que no juega desde que hace más de 40 días se retiró del Abierto de Australia por una rotura en el tendón cuadricipital de una rodilla.

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by Jeff Wilson
I. GONDWANALAND, MIGRATION, AND DINOSAURS

by Jeff Wilson
I. GONDWANALAND, MIGRATION, AND DINOSAURS

by Jeff Wilson
I. GONDWANALAND, MIGRATION, AND DINOSAURS

Apple's iPad tablet will go on sale a few days later than originally announced -- a fact that is attracting attention. The company announced Friday that the Wi-Fi version will be released for sale on April 3 in the U.S. At the iPad announcement in January, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company said the product would ship in late March.

There have been rumors that the sale date was pushed back to accommodate an unspecified production problem. The 3G version goes on sale in late April, and preordering for either model in the U.S. begins in a week.

Reshaping the Landscape?

El 'iPad', estará disponible en España a finales de abril, fecha en el que se desvelará el precio al que se comercializará el terminal en este país, ha informado hoy la compañía. La venta en el país del dispositivo tablet coincidirá con su comercialización en Alemania, Australia, Canadá, Francia, Italia, Japón, Suiza y Reino Unido.

Better known as Momus, Nick Currie has, since the mid-1980s, led parallel careers in music (with 21 albums out so far), prose, art and journalism, exploring the nexuses between them while traveling the world and examining his favorite cultures. He has most recently turned toward traditional ink-and-paper publishing with two volumes, The Book of Jokes and The Book of Scotlands.