BRUSSELS - EUROPEAN businesses and households could save 2 billion euro (S$3.9 billion) over the next three years if cell phone operators cut wholesale charges under a new guideline price cap, European Union regulators claimed Thursday.

WASHINGTON - THE NUMBER of domesticated bees is on the rise worldwide despite declining numbers of wild honey bees in the United States and Europe, a study said on Thursday.

'The honey bee decline observed in the USA and in other European countries including Great Britain, which has been attributed in part to parasitic mites and more recently to colony collapse disorder, could be misguiding us to think that this is a global phenomenon,' said Marcelo Aizen of Universidad Nacional del Comahue in Argentina.

SAN FRANCISCO - THE POPULAR micro-blogging and social networking service Twitter is not for sale, one of the company's founders said on TV on Thursday.

Biz Stone made the declaration in an appearance on the ABC show 'The View.'