After years of waiting in long lines with children at a crowded mall, parents are finally being offered an alternative to the traditional sit on Santa's lap chat. Phone chats for today's tech savvy kids and time pressed parents is the new method for kids telling Santa what's on their list. Christmas websites like SantaSpeaking. com allow kids to talk with Santa in the comfort of their own home, and be thrilled by all of the details that Santa knows about them - information the parent provides when they order online. Santa now actually knows if they have been naughty or nice, right down to the details.

A recent court ruling in Belgium has inspired a legal magazine to justify erotic converstaion with a virtual partner in chatrooms on the Internet as grounds for divorce, Reuters reports. According to Belgian legal publication De Juristenkrant

The Chinese government is implementing new Internet rules that directly challenge freedom of speech by imposing regulations on the content of news Web sites. According to the new rules, news Web sites may only post "healthy and civilized" news.

A Pennsylvania couple who met at McDonald's four years ago are married at the fast-food joint Monday night. Ken Sinchar rolled through the drive-thru in his white minivan, just as he had done day after day, hoping to chat with Lori Sherbondy.

New gender equality laws were submitted to Beijing, following a meeting of lawmakers. State media reports sexual harassment offenses face crimimal charges under changes to laws aimed at protecting women's rights.