The prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has provoked outrage in Turkey by attempting to block Twitter and YouTube. Photograph: Burhan Ozbilici/AP. We are writers from around the world who love, live and breathe words. We are united in our belief that ...

Youtube Turkey A man tries to get connected to the youtube web site with his tablet at a cafe in Istanbul on Thursday. Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters. The tech giant Google said on Thursday that it is investigating reports that its video-sharing website, ...

French president François Hollande and actor Julie Gayet refuse to comment on the nature of their relationship. Photograph: Yoan Valat/Christophe Karaba/EPA. A French court has ordered the gossip magazine Closer to pay €15,000 (£12,000) in damages to ...

Opening the floodgates … Noah, which opens today in Ukraine, is likely to bring the disagreement to a head. Photograph: Allstar. Hollywood is being pulled into the standoff over the future of Crimea after "patriotic" cinema owners in the disputed Ukrainian ...

Oculus Rift Facebook's acquisition of Oculus Rift has put the cat among the pigeons of its Kickstarter backers. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images. Facebook's purchase of virtual reality company Oculus for $2bn in stocks and shares is big news for a ...

Minecraft creator Markus Persson says he has cancelled a potential deal to bring the hit game to Oculus Rift, after the company was bought by Facebook. We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal.

Oscar Pistorius admitted he is having a "tough time" on Tuesday as prosecutors closed their murder case against him, bringing closer the defining moment when he must account for his actions in court. Speaking publicly for the first time since his trial got under ...

Journalists on trial in Cairo on 24 March for allegedly supporting a terrorist group – the Muslim Brotherhood. On the same day more than 500 Brotherhood supporters were sentenced to death. Photograph: Tarek Wajeh/Almasry Alyoum/EPA. Ever since the ...

A video still shows relatives' distress at the death sentence handed to nearly 530 Morsi supporters by an Egyptian court on Monday. A futher 683 defendants go on trial on Tuesday. Photograph: AP. Egypt has opened another mass trial of Islamist suspects ...

A video still shows relatives' distress at the death sentence handed to nearly 530 Morsi supporters by an Egyptian court on Monday. A futher 683 defendants go on trial on Tuesday. Photograph: AP. Egypt has opened another mass trial of Islamist suspects ...

A judge in southern Egypt has taken just two court sessions to sentence to death 529 supporters of Mohamed Morsi for the murder of a single police officer. Sixteen people were acquitted after lawyers said they had not been allowed to present a proper ...

The Malaysian prime minister, Najib Razak, said at the late-night news conference: 'For [families] the past few weeks have been heartbreaking. I know this must be the most heartbreaking of all.' Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters. The last faint hopes of finding ...

Microsoft has tightened up its privacy policy after admitting to reading emails from a journalist's Hotmail account while tracking down a leak. The new rules prevent the company from snooping on customers' communications without first convincing two legal ...

Weapons used by Taliban gunmen, which were hidden in their shoes, in Serena hotel attack in Kabul on 21 March 2014. Photograph: Anja Niedringhaus/AP. Teenage Taliban gunmen who slipped into a top luxury hotel in Kabul on Thursday night shot and ...

It's a rivalry that will always be defined by the game Clive Tyldesley loves to refer to as "that night" in Barcelona. But despite a few epic Champions League showdowns since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Teddy Sheringham's heroics in the 1999 final at Camp ...

Flappy Bird is set to return to iPhone and Android app stores, its Vietnamese developer has confirmed. In response to requests for a download of the free game - which started a craze and generated around $50,000 a day in advertising revenue at its peak ...

General Motors CEO Mary Barra said: 'Something went wrong with our process… and terrible things occurred'. Photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters. General Motors' woes mounted on Monday as the car giant disclosed a new recall of nearly 1.5m vehicles, the latest ...

Scientists detected telltale signs of gravitational waves using the Bicep2 telescope (far left) at the south pole. Photograph: Lindsey Bleem/South Pole Telescope blog. Scientists have heralded a "whole new era" in physics with the detection of "primordial ...

On Friday, levels of pollution in Paris were higher than in many of the world's most notoriously polluted cities. With your help, Karl Mathiesen, investigates how the City of Light became the City of Smog. Join the debate. Post your views in the comments below, ...

As comebacks go, it may not quite be up there with Elvis Presley's '68 special or the forthcoming Monty Python reunion, but fans of ridiculously difficult smartphone game Flappy Bird may soon have cause for excitement. The title was nicknamed “the new ...