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Director focusses on US locationHeavy Rain director David Cage says that he prefers to set PS3 exclusive action title Heavy Rain in the United States for creative reasons. Rather than setting his adventure in his native France, Cage says that the US provides a more fertile ground for rich narratives. ' We spent time in an east coast city for three weeks with cameras, and it was a real shock to see the poverty, the ghettos, the abandoned factories, and the sense of danger that the social disparity creates,' Cage revealed to 1UP. 'When you live in Europe, the US is most of the time depicted as the country of success, power, money, heroes saving the world, and sexy girls. Discovering the social side of America that you rarely see in movies was something absolutely scary. 'I came [across a particular city coincidentally], not really knowing what I was looking for, but I found the exact background I needed to tell my story, and I must say it really fed the writing of Heavy Rain.' Cage

. Co-founder Larry Page says search engine has been losing out to micro-blogging site in battle to provide real-time information. Chief executive hints that Google could go into partnership with TwitterGoogle's co-founder, Larry Page, admitted today that the company has been losing out to Twitter in the race to meet web user's demand for real-time information.Instead, the search engine's chairman and chief executive, Eric Schmidt, hinted that it could become a partner of the micro-blogging site. Twitter has come from nowhere to become the third most visited social networking site in the US in just three years by allowing its users to broadcast their thoughts, actions and news instantly.Google's search engine, in contrast, can take hours or even days to update. While this is usually not a problem as accuracy of results is more important than speed of updating, as the internet community comes to demand ever faster information Twitter has left Google in its wake.'People really want to do

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The number of assassinations in Afghanistan is growing, particularly in Kandahar province, where Taliban militants are strong and well-organized. Dozens of politicians, government employees, activists and Muslim clerics have been targeted. The threats have halted much government and social work in Kandahar, officials say.

JERUSALEM - Israel's internal intelligence service has urged the public to exercise caution when using Facebook, saying Arabs are trying to recruit spies on the popular social networking site. The Shin Bet security agency warned...

Israel's internal intelligence service urged the public to exercise caution when using Facebook, saying Arabs are trying to recruit spies on the popular social networking site.

Israel's internal intelligence service urged the public to exercise caution when using Facebook, saying Arabs are trying to recruit spies on the popular social networking site.

Israel's security agency has issued a warning to citizens not to share sensitive information on social-networking websites.

Tel Aviv - Radical Islamist groups are using Facebook and other Internet social networking sites to approach Israelis and try to extract classified, sensitive information from them, Israel's internal security organization said Tuesday. The Shin Bet ...