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Mobvision launch Arabian Night Mobile Casino - a full suite of mobile gambling games.

nternational News Brief: Betfair, the privately owned betting exchange, has published its annual report for the first time, sparking speculation that it is gearing up for a stock market flotation.

International News Brief: Betfair, the leading online betting exchange, has launched a rescue package for Sporting Options' customers who have lost money as a result of that company going into administration.

International News Brief: Some of the world's best known sports stars are lining up to compete in a $1 million all-star poker event.

Harrah's Entertainment and MGM Mirage emerged as losers Tuesday when the British government announced its initial plans for the deregulation of gaming in the United Kingdom, Wall Street analysts said.

International News Brief: The U.K. government will set an initial limit of eight Las Vegas-style super-casinos in its new gambling bill, to reduce opposition from members of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour party.

nternational News Brief: Sporting Options, a small Sussex-based online betting exchange which has stunned customers and rivals with its apparent rapid growth, was yesterday placed in administration and police are believed to have been called in to investigate possible misuse of punters accounts.

Orbis reports that it will provide UK based Italian bookmaker Paradisebet Ltd with its OpenBet interactive gambling platform.

International News Brief: As Britain prepares to reform gaming industry, Berne pioneers gambling with social ethics.

Betandwin.com reports new record quarterly turnover of almost EUR 222 million, up 154% from Q3 2003.

International News Brief: A man who won a record-breaking £1.1million has vowed to give away £15,000 to Britain's unluckiest gambler.

International News Brief: Virgin tycoon Richard Branson is planning to open a chain of casinos in the UK, the first of which could open in 18 months.

International News Brief: It is a small Baltic country with a spectacularly beautiful capital, recent European Union membership, a growing tourist industry: and a guilty secret.

For half a dozen armchair punters, there will be no Saturday night out this weekend, at least not until the 10.10pm at Sunderland has been run.

International News Brief : A lucky punter known only as Ken popped into his local Betfred in Salford, Greater Manchester, last Saturday for an old-fashioned flutter and became the first person to win more than a million in a bookmaker's.

Speaking from the European Interactive Gaming 2004 conference in Barcelona, Spain, the directors of eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance have announced the award of its Seal to five more quality Internet casinos.

Gambling.com predicts interactive gaming being as monetarily important to the UK as Las Vegas-style Resorts.

International News Brief: The director of one of Britain's biggest online betting companies gave £50,000 to Labour while the Government was drafting final proposals to reform the gambling industry.

News Brief: In a ruling that could open the United States to offshore Internet gambling, a World Trade Organization panel Wednesday said Washington should drop prohibitions on Americans placing bets in online casinos.Nw

International News Brief: A British bookmaker and three other pools operators acted within the law when they used horse racing and football fixtures without paying a licence fee to the companies that compiled the databases, an EU court ruled today.