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International News Brief: Plans to bulldoze the Mecca bingo hall in Fountainbridge to make way for a new canal-side leisure complex are set to be decided at a public inquiry.

International News Brief: Manchester United, confirmed this week as the richest football club in the world, announced today that it is in talks over the possibility of further boosting its income by building a supercasino at its Old Trafford ground.

iTouch has signed an agreement with Zone4Play to distribute its extensive database of gaming, gambling and betting services to iTouch customers.

International News Brief: Bar and nightclub operator Luminar and Accor Casinos have received planning permission for its casino development in Leeds.

International News Brief: The new Grosvenor Casino has opened its doors at Gunwharf Quays.

International News Brief: The British casino industry is embarking on a last-ditch campaign to influence the Government's Gambling Bill, demanding that it be allowed thousands more high-prize slot machines in order to compete with overseas operators who will enter the market.

International News Brief: Russian club Dynamo Moscow signed a sponsorship deal with nationwide casino chain Super Slots on Tuesday as they bid to restore the team to former glories.

International News Brief: Portugal's Casino Estoril says it awarded a record 32.3 million euros in prize money in January.

International News Brief: The man appointed to spearhead Britain's gambling industry has resigned after just seven months in the post following the culture secretary Tessa Jowell's U-turn on the expansion of casinos.

International News Brief: Bookmakers are giving odds on what colour outfit Camilla Parker Bowles will wear when she ties the knot with Prince Charles in April, while designers mull whether she will take her vows in a suit or dress.

Parlay Entertainment Inc. reports the completion of a license agreement with St. Minver Limited, Europe's largest provider of 'white label' fully managed gaming solutions.

Casino-Moscow has published a recent marketing report about preferences of visitors of Moscow casinos, based on the poll among 5,000 people.

International News Brief: British lawmakers have called for tough new measures to crack down on corruption in sports-related betting.

International News Brief: The great-great- grandson of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky is involved in litigation demanding that the writer's picture be removed from lottery tickets.

International News Brief: Imagine gambling in a casino, working out on a treadmill and going shopping while flying across an ocean.

One analyst is betting that Russia may soon rival Asia as one of the world's fastest-growing gambling markets.

nternational News Brief: Wales’s win over England in Cardiff on Saturday has shaken up the betting for the RBS Six Nations, with William Hill now offering Ireland as 13-8 favourites to win the tournament.

Most Russians love gambling. According to the data of the FBK auditor-consulting company, the country's citizens annually spend 37.5 billion rubles on gambling games and lotteries.

Opinion: David A. Marcus, CEO of Echovox, examines the effect of the changing UK gambling legislation on the mobile gambling (m-gambling) market

International News Brief: In the early 90s, women represented just four per cent of gamblers but now 20 per cent of British women visit an online casino or betting site more than once a year.