How can a government turn off Twitter?
Calls to “shut down Twitter” don’t only come from prime ministers facing corruption allegations: during the 2011 riots former MP Louise Mensch suggested the same thing.
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MPs defend the UK military’s controversial drones programme, saying pilots are not video-gaming “warrior geeks”, and call for more clarity around their secretive use.
A Syrian military jet is shot down in the northern border region with Turkey where rebels have been battling President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
Calls to “shut down Twitter” don’t only come from prime ministers facing corruption allegations: during the 2011 riots former MP Louise Mensch suggested the same thing.
The Turkish government’s decision to ban access to Twitter comes as little surprise, writes Niall Finn, a student in Ankara.
The latest contribution to the debate about kids and porn came from the culture media and sport committee. But parents hoping for a speedy solution are in for a disappointment.
In any analysis of Venezuelan politics, it is prudent not to underestimate the vast shadow that former President Hugo Chavez casts over his country, writes Thom Walker.
Chinese relatives demand more information and threaten hunger strike, as Malaysia reveals the search area for the missing plane spans 2.24m square nautical miles.
If true, Monday’s result from a radio telescope in the Antarctic is one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of science – but for the time being it remains a pretty big if.
The northern section of the £50bn high-speed rail line should be completed faster and the link with HS1 scrapped, according to HS2 chairman Sir David Higgins.
A Boeing 777 has seemingly disappeared, along with the 239 people on board. But is Malaysia Airlines more risky? And is it safe to fly at all?
As US scientists confirm they have new evidence of what happened just after the Big Bang as well as how it has shaped the universe since, what are the other game-changing scientific breakthroughs?
Malaysian police investigate a flight engineer who was aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370, as evidence mounts that the flight’s disappearance may have been a hijacking or act of sabotage.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov, his Russian counterpart, say they are keen for the choices of Ukrainians to be respected but the two men mean very different things.
Malaysia’s military chief says a radar detection in the Malacca Strait – off the west coast of Malaysia – could be that of the missing aircraft.
Visually impaired downhill skier Jade Etherington wins Britain’s first Paralympic medal at Sochi 2014, and the first on snow in 20 years.