Biometrics

PARIS - Safran SA says it will pay $1.1 billion to buy Stamford, Connecticut-based security firm L-1 Identity Solutions Inc.

SAN RAMON, Calif. - Members of the 24 Hour Fitness chain no longer need to worry about forgetting their membership cards and IDs when they go to the gym: All they need to bring are their fingers.

LONDON - Britain's home secretary said Thursday an unpopular national identity card program for U.K.

LONDON - Britain's new deputy prime minister pledged Wednesday to lead a sweeping drive to protect civil liberties, curbing official surveillance and data collection by scrapping an unpopular national identity card program, limiting the retention of DNA profiles and regulating the spread of closed-circuit TV cameras.

NEW DELHI - India kicked off the national census of its billion-plus population Thursday with a 2.5 million strong army of census-takers fanning out across the country to conduct what has been billed the world's largest administrative exercise.