LOS ANGELES -- Social-networking site MySpace said Tuesday that it will cut 300 international positions and close at least four offices outside the U.S. as it looks to cut costs and narrow its territory coverage.

LOS ANGELES - News Corp.'s MySpace says it's launching an online music service as part of a joint venture with three of the largest recording companies. Users will be able to listen to music and watch videos for free and purchase music downloads directly from the Web site.

ALBANY, N.Y. - MySpace has reached an agreement with more than 45 states to change to help prevent sexual predators and others from misusing it, state officials said Monday.

NEW YORK - The popular online hangout MySpace is expanding its program for letting advertisers target their pitches using personal details on users' profile pages.

Social networking Web site MySpace (myspace.com) will bring the first of a series of concerts produced and branded by the site to Tempe’s Marquee Theatre (luckymanonline.com), 730 N. Mill Ave., on Wednesday, Nov. 14, for what is being dubbed the MySpace Music Tour.

Somewhere deep in cyberspace, where reality blurs into fiction and the living greet the dead, there are ghosts. They live in a virtual graveyard without tombstones or flowers. They drift among the shadows of the people they used to be, and the pieces they left behind.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Faced with legal demands from state attorneys general, MySpace.com said Monday it will release data on registered sex offenders it has identified and removed from the popular social networking Web site.

NEW YORK - The popular online hangout MySpace is entering the news business with a feature that lets its users determine what items other members see.

NEW YORK - The popular online hangout MySpace said Monday it will experiment with a video-filtering system designed to block clips containing copyright materials.

NEW YORK - Four families have sued News Corp. and its MySpace social-networking site after their underage daughters were sexually abused by adults they met on the site, lawyers for the families said Thursday.

An 18-year-old Tempe woman had been with a Mesa man only a few days when the man’s ex-girlfriend attempted to put a hit on the perceived rival, according to a police report released Friday. Nathan C. Smith, 24, had moved in with the teen in Tempe after living in Mesa with his girlfriend of three months.

An 18-year-old Tempe woman had been with her new male roommate only a few days when the man's ex-girlfriend attempted to put a hit on her, according to a police report released Friday.

A 22-year-old Mesa resident is accused of offering an undercover police officer $1,000 to kill a woman who appeared on her boyfriend's MySpace.com Web page.

An 18-year- old Tempe woman had been with a Mesa man only a few days when the man’s ex-girlfriend attempted to put a hit on the perceived rival, according to a police report released Friday. Nathan C. Smith, 24, had moved in with the teen in Tempe after living in Mesa with his girlfriend of three months.

The Bush administration has quietly articulated a new U.S. space policy that greatly resembles President Bush’s aggressive doctrine of preemptive war laid down in 2002.

A 22-year-old Mesa resident is accused of offering an undercover police officer $1,000 to kill a woman who appeared on her boyfriend's MySpace.com Web page.

KANEOHE, Hawaii - Teens looking to hook up with a friend on the popular Web community MySpace may bump into an unexpected buddy: the U.S. Marine Corps.

NEW YORK - MySpace.com is planning new restrictions on how adults may contact its younger users in response to growing concerns about the safety of teenagers who frequent the popular online social networking site.

NEW YORK - U.S. mobile phones are pretty staid affairs compared to what's available in Asia and Europe, but a phone service launching Tuesday aims to bring cutting-edge features from South Korea to a U.S. audience.

NEW YORK - The Internet has a rising star whose name isn't Google. Just over 2 years old, MySpace now has 2 1/2 times the traffic of Google Inc., and it quickly eclipsed Friendster as the top social-networking site where users build larger and larger circles of friends.

LOS ANGELES - Amateur filmmaker David Lehre first screened his short film "MySpace: The Movie" about a month ago at his 21st birthday party.