WASHINGTON: The White House acknowledged Monday that one of its computer networks was hit by a cyber attack, but said there was no breach of any classified systems and no indication any data was lost.

Hong Kong (CNN) -- The daughter of the tycoon who on Tuesday offered HK$500 million (US$64 million) to any man who would marry her found the proposal "quite entertaining," she told CNN.

Gigi Chao said her father, property developer Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, "loves her very much" and she was aware of the cash offer before it was first reported Tuesday by local Hong Kong media.

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man allegedly behind the inflammatory film "Innocence of Muslims," was ordered held without bail Thursday after being arrested in California and accused of violating his probation.

"He engaged in a likely pattern of deception both to his probation officers and the court," Judge Suzanne Segal said in issuing her ruling.

The preliminary bail hearing began with Segal asking the defendant -- dressed in gray slacks and a white and yellow striped T-shirt, with handcuffs and chain around his waist -- what his true name was.

"Mark Basseley Yousseff," he replied.

BERLIN: A German court on Friday refused to allow a Muslim student to skip swimming lessons after she said she was uncomfortable being so close to bare-chested boys.

Islamabad: Hina Rabbani Khar and Bilawal Bhutto appear to be on a collision course with their families over their desire to turn their love affair into marriage.

As per Bangladeshi tabloid, The Blitz, Hina’s husband Firoze Gulzar had called up his wife, who is New York for the UN summit with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, to seek clarification on the "scandal" being tossed around by the media

Google turned 14 on Thursday and celebrated its birthday with a doodle of a rich chocolate cake.

“Google” was inscribed across the cake and seconds after opening the site, the 14 candles atop the delicacy get extinguished.

Nineteen people, including 12 foreigners, were killed Friday when an aircraft crashed minutes after taking off from the international airport here, an official said.

The dead include three crew members, reported Xinhua.

The aircrash took place barely four months after an airplane carrying 21 people crashed on a cliff in western Nepal. At least seven Indians were among those killed in the May 14 aircrash.

China has completed a cultural project aimed at building at least one reading room for people in every village in the country.

At the end of August, China had invested over 18 billion yuan (around $2.8 billion) in the construction of 600,449 upto-standard reading rooms in rural areas, Xinhua reported.

A Sikh American student dignified response to a tasteless post making fun of her facial hair has earned her a legion of fans.

A man took a photo of Balpreet Kaur and uploaded onto Reddit in the 'funny' category with the tagline 'im (sic) not sure what to conclude from this', Daily Mail reported on Wednesday.

Assange meanwhile called on the United States to halt its "persecution" of WikiLeaks and its supporters in a video link message at the UN headquarters organized by Ecuador.