A new report published by eMarketer has suggested that a staggering 56.7 percent of British homes are now online, with 73 percent of those now using broadband.

George Clooney’s plans for a glitzy casino that would help fund charitable projects is in serious trouble, and may now be scrapped completely.

The ex-wife of a Canadian man who won a $30 million lottery jackpot has won a minor victory in her battle for half of his lottery winnings, after it was announced that he would pay her temporary support.

The regeneration of Sheffield town centre will be completed with the creation of a casino development, it emerged yesterday.

Councillors from one of Scotland’s smallest councils are staging an unlikely fight against Glasgow’s right to host the country’s first super-casino.

Cardiff Council has made an official bid to the government for a super casino to be built in the city’s sports village.

The decision by Birmingham City Council to delay choosing between two rival bids for the country’s first super casino has been roundly criticised by a midland MP.

The prospect of a merger between betting giants William Hill and the massive Rank Group – in the bingo and casino business – is looking less likely after the board of William Hill blocked the move.

A German court has ordered a casino to pay damages to two women whose husbands gambled away their life savings.

London Clubs International PLC (LCI) has blamed the July terrorist attacks for a first-half loss, though the company stressed that trading had recovered to be very strong in recent weeks.

A man from Essex has had his Christmas shopping made considerably easier by InterCasino after winning a massive $1.7 million jackpot playing the Millionaires Club Progressive slot online.

Karen Brady, the chief executive of Birmingham City Football Club has dismissed as “unworkable” the rival bid of the National Exhibition Centre to host the country’s first super-casino.

The Philadelphia 76’ers star player and previous NBA Most Valuable Player of the Year award winner Allen Iverson is famous in Atlantic City casinos as well as on the basketball courts, but for very different reasons.

Coral bookmakers announced yesterday the introduction of a new virtual horse racing game called International Horse Racing.

The Mashantucket Pequots, owners of Foxwoods Resort Casino, have won their battle against a cyber-squatter who tried to sell them a domain name for $19,999,999.

The Harrah’s executive Jennifer Shatley has been appointed to serve on the board of directors of the National Centre for Responsible Gaming (NCRG), according to Harrah’s Entertainment Inc.

Good tidings at this festive time of year are not what Atlantic City casinos are used to – with people usually choosing to spend their money on Christmas pressies instead of slot machines.

The World Poker Tour has developed a casino poker game called “all-in poker” designed to appeal to the regular casino game player – rather than the poker aficionado.

The National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham has revealed it has chosen the US based casino operator MGM Mirage as its partner for the proposed development of a super casino in the city.

Casino projects in Silver Springs, Fallon and Dayton have won the support of the Nevada Gaming Board, according to the Tahoe Bonanza News.

InterCasino has won the 2005 Gambling Online Magazine award for the Best Online Casino of the year. 32 Red also received a special mention in the category.

A member of the board of the NEC Birmingham has said that the centre must put its plans for a super-casino on the table or back out from the bid race altogether.

Las Vegas Sands Corp said yesterday that it would not need a partner for its Singapore venture.

The prolific Rags-to-Riches slot on InterPoker.com’s online casino paid out again this week – to the tune of $149,758.

Staff from the Hamilton Casino in New Zealand staged a three hour strike last Saturday night in a dispute over pay rates, it has emerged

Harrah’s Entertainment could have to pay a $50,000 fine after a ten coin jackpot failed to pay out in a Kansas casino.

Harrah’s Entertainment has announced it has laid off almost its entire 9,400 staff from the Gulf Coast, after the hurricanes decimated five of the company’s casinos in the area.

Birmingham City FC look likely to win the battle to have their home ground of St Andrews nominated as the site of the UK’s first ‘super casino’. This may be some relief for the football club, whose first team have lost six out of seven of their last home games.

Hollywood Star George Clooney is a man of his word it appears – as he is giving a quarter of all profits from his casino to charity.

Card dealers at the Agua Caliente casinos in California are being forced to pool their tips, is emerged yesterday.

The gaming market has finally shaken off the effects of the Gulf Coast hurricanes it emerged yesterday. After a three month fall, in which most major casino companies experienced sliding share prices, things have started to look up.

Harrah’s Entertainment announced yesterday that they plan to build a Caesar’s casino in Ciudad Real, in Spain.

Harrah’s announced this Tuesday that they will be jointly developing a hotel-casino in Nova Gorcia, in Slovenia.

Sportingbet, the UK based online gambling operator, yesterday came close to ruling out entirely the prospect of it launching a new bid for Empire Online.