Authorities in Ivory Coast on Wednesday issued an international arrest warrant against a witness in a French inquiry into the disappearance of a Canadian journalist, a lawyer said.

Reporter Guy-Andre Kieffer, 59, who also has French citizenship, disappeared in Ivory Coast in 2004 while researching a story on corruption in the west African state`s cocoa industry.

PC Magazine, which has documented the explosive growth of the personal computer since 1982, announced on Wednesday that it was dropping its print edition next year and going online only.

PC Magazine publisher Ziff Davis Media, which recently exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy, said in a statement that the final edition of the iconic magazine would be the January 2009 issue.

The number of journalists and other media staff killed around the world declined in 2008 but remains high, while virtually all of those responsible continue to go unpunished, a media safety group said Wednesday.

Authorities in Somalia`s breakaway region of Puntland on Wednesday allowed a radio station to resume broadcasting, three days after it was yanked off the air, a watchdog said Wednesday.

PC Magazine, which has documented the explosive growth of the personal computer since 1982, is dropping its print edition next year and going online.

PaidContent.org, which covers digital media, reported Wednesday that PC Magazine publisher Ziff Davis Media, which recently exited Chapter 11, would publish the last print edition of the iconic magazine in January.

Four men charged in connection with the killing of outspoken Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya entered not guilty pleas at their trial, a lawyer for one of the defendants told AFP on Wednesday.

Four men charged in connection with the killing of outspoken Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya entered not guilty pleas at their trial, a lawyer for one of the defendants told AFP on Wednesday.

The trial of four men charged over the 2006 murder of outspoken Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya will be held behind closed doors, a judge ruled Wednesday, infuriating her family and lawyers.

The trial of four men charged over the 2006 murder of outspoken Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya will be held behind closed doors, a judge ruled Wednesday, infuriating her family and lawyers.

Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social, a judiciary official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

`The enemies seek to assault our religious identity by exploiting the Internet,` Abdolsamad Khoram Abadi, an advisor to Iran`s prosecutor general, was quoted by Kargozaran newspaper as saying.