Facebook, world's fastest growing website, could be shut down

The owners of a rival social networking website are trying to shut down internet sensation Facebook, and are claiming that its founder stole their ideas while they were students at Harvard.

Facebook is the world's fastest growing website with around 150,000 new users registering every day.

Second only to  MySpace in terms of users, Facebook's simple format helps people to stay in touch, meet new friends and share photos and news.

The three founders of rival site  ConnectU say Mark Zuckerberg agreed to finish computer code for their site, but repeatedly stalled and eventually created Facebook using their ideas.