SYDNEY--5 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest AAP ACQUIRES... SYDNEY: Australian Associated Press, the nationalnewsagency, has announced the acquisition of The Media ResearchGroup, the Melbourne based media monitoring and analysiscompany. YUSUF, KENNA, XZIBIT... LOS ANGELES: Live Earth organizers have announced that musiclegend Yusuf (formerly Cat Stevens), rapper, actor andtelevision personality Xzibit, and electronica artist Kennawill be joining the blockbuster line-ups of performers at theLive Earth concerts in Hamburg, Tokyo and New York,respectively.http://liveearth.orghttp://liveearth.msn.comhttp://www.eventim.de/eve/liveearthhttp://www.ticket-navi.ne.jphttp://eee.eplus.co.jphttp://www.livenation.com/liveearth MERCHANTS OF BROOKLYN... FRANKFURT and SAN DIEGO: Paleo Entertainment, a newindependent development studio based in San Diego, California,has announced that they have begun developing an original FPSgame entitled "Merchants of Brooklyn" which will be powered bythe new CryENGINE 2 middleware from Crytek.http://www.crytek.comhttp://www.paleoent.com LEADERSHIP NOMINEES... HONG KONG: (ISC)2, the non-profit global leader in educatingand certifying information security professionals throughouttheir careers, has announced the honourees for its inauguralAsia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievementsprogramme.http://www.isc2.orghttp://www.informationsecurityasia.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.