WASHINGTON - PFIZER, the world's biggest drug maker, said on Tuesday it was terminating development of two medicines aimed at treating pain and anxiety disorders to focus on higher-potential development programs.

LONDON - USERS of the popular e-mail service GMail were knocked out by a global outage on Tuesday.

From 0930 GMT the service provided by Google was offline with the company announcing it was 'working hard to resolve this problem".

OXFORD (Britain) - SOCIAL networking websites like Facebook and MySpace are 'rewiring' children's brains said a neuroscientist on Tuesday.

According to a report in the UK's Daily Mail newspaper, these websites are making children more self-centred and reducing their attention spans.