Paris - The World Association of Newspapers (WAN), an international trade group of 18,000 newpapers, announced on Monday that it has petitioned the U.S. Justice Department, European Commission and Competition Bureau of Canada to block Google's (NASD: GOOG) proposed deal to provide search advertising for Yahoo (NASD: YHOO).

New York - A consortium of newspaper publishers on Thursday introduced ACAP, a new open standard that will allow publishers, broadcasters and others to express the individual access and usage policies of their websites to search engine robots.