LONDON (Reuters) - A food-linked word game put on the Internet a month ago has proved a runaway success and has already generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people, the United Nations World Food Programme said on Friday.

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tale of online love inspired usually cynical New Yorkers this week to help a young man find the girl of his dreams after he spotted her on a crowded subway train.

  FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - Apple fans queued through the night in Germany and Britain to be among the first in Europe to buy an iPhone, the must-have gadget that is set to shake up the mobile industry.

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service, said on Friday it had ended its WiMax partnership with Clearwire Corp and was reviewing its plans for the next-generation wireless technology.

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Companies are rushing to serve up advertisements with online videos, but that doesn't mean anybody is paying attention to the promotions for cars, soap or sneakers.

  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Finding fellow gourmands, good restaurants and exotic dishes is becoming easier on the Internet, as Web sites focused on eating well and discovering new flavors become must-have destinations for food lovers.

  COLOGNE/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Hundreds of German Apple fans braved rain and wind before dawn to be among the first in Europe to get their hands on an iPhone but the arrival of the year's hottest consumer gadget passed most Germans by.

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States must change an Internet gambling law that discriminates against European companies by preventing them from offering services in the U.S. market, the European Union's top trade official said on Thursday.

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Digital video recorder company TiVo Inc is offering a new service giving advertisers detailed profiles of its users, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday in its online edition.

  LONDON (Reuters) - Most companies do not stop staff from downloading music from the Internet, despite the risks posed to work computers, a survey has found.