Investigations revealed that his business dealings were all suspect and his entire life story was nothing but a web of lies and deceit.

FORBES: Fake South African Billionaire Arrested For Fraud, Homicide Charges

Last week Carl Niehaus, the ANC's spin doctor and a former ambassador to the Netherlands, resigned after admitting to a web of lies, fraud and debt that financed a lavish lifestyle and must have been obvious to his bosses.

ECONOMIST: South Africa

Defending, John Weate said Parr had been lying to her family about having cancer for 10 years prior to the offences against Ms Briscoe and had begun a "web of lies" after a cervical smear test revealed "unstable cells".

BBC: Beth Parr lied about cancer to 'fleece' Maureen Briscoe

The main square of Raekoja Plats, a cobbled plaza dominated by a Gothic town hall, lies at the epicentre of a web of alleys and lanes leading up to the 13th-century Toompea Castle and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.

BBC: Tallinn��s secret history of espionage

Behind every cordless computer lies a tangle of cables, a web of wires that ties us down and keeps our networks from becoming free.

FORBES: Think You're Wireless? Think Again

Proof of that lies deeper in the numbers: 80 percent of G1 customers are browsing the web on a daily basis from the comfort of their device -- a testament to the goodness of WebKit, we reckon -- over half are using Facebook and YouTube at least once a week, and half are hooking up to WiFi on a daily basis.

ENGADGET: T-Mobile reveals some juicy G1 stats, half of users traded up from dumbphones