Citizen Cartwright

Journalist 'death watch'

Last year was the deadliest in a decade for journalists, with 110 killed on the job or targeted because of their profession, according to the International Press Institute's World Press Freedom Review.

"When it comes to the deliberate murder of journalists because of their work we are still mired in an age of barbarity," says Anthony Mills, the review's managing editor.

Google and China's 'Great Firewall'

Google’s threat to leave China — and a market of Web surfers that exceeds the entire population of the United States — may further the Chinese government’s resolve to shape the Internet to its political advantage rather than accept the “unrestricted” Web advocated by President Obama, Bloomberg says.

The Web search giant said on Tuesday it had discovered that Chinese cyberattackers had tried to access the gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

Google said: "These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered — combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the Web — have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn."

Anne Frank protector dies

Miep Gies, the last survivor of a group that helped hide the Frank family from the Nazis, has died at the age of 100.

Gies was a secretary for Anne's father, Otto, who had moved his family from Germany to Holland when the Nazis took power.

Hours after the Franks were betrayed and taken by the Nazis from their hiding place in Amsterdam on August 4, 1944, Gies found Anne's diary. It was published after the war and eventually was translated into more than 70 languages.