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Facebook profit surges, closing in on two billion monthly users

Facebook has reported surging quarterly profit and revenue but its shares dipped due to nervousness about future earnings.

Thailand

Violent crime videos pile pressure on Facebook

Never before has it been so easy to put pictures and video on the internet.

Business Series

Could Twitter be enjoying a Trump fuelled turnaround?

Twitter - the social media platform beloved by US president Donald Trump - saw its shares surgeafter it added a lot more users that had been expected.

Thailand

Thai man kills baby on Facebook Live before taking his own life

Wuttisan Wongtalay filmed himself killing his 11-month-old daughter in Phuket

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World News

Tennis superstar Serena Williams announces pregnancy

Williams revealed on Snapchat she is 20 weeks pregnant, placing her Australian Open win approximately two months into her term

Turkey

Turkey's youth fighting back

Sulukule is one of Istanbul’s oldest neighbourhoods.

Spain

Major operation against child porn network culminates in 39 arrests

Spanish police have arrested 39 people as part of an international operation against a major child pornography ring which distributed illicit material via the online messaging application…

USA

United faces global backlash after dragging passenger from plane

United Airlines may lose hundreds of millions of euros as the airline faces continued backlash after dragging a passenger from an overbooked flight.

USA

Twitter fights trolls, changes its default image setting

Twitter said it will abandon its egg-shaped default profile picture as users increasingly associate the avatar with abusive online behaviour.

United Kingdom

'We are not afraid': Londoners defiant after parliament attack

Residents of London have used social media to express their solidarity after an attack on people near the parliament building in Westminster.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. How you can fight Twitter's 357,000 'Star Wars bots'. And more

Business Series

Snapchat shares soar despite disappearing message app's invisible profits

Wall Street investors snap up shares of mobile phone messaging app Snapchat making it worth tens of billions even though it's never turned a profit.

USA

Trump's Conway causes controversy for "disrespectful" White House picture

US Presidential advisor Kellyann Conway has sparked outrage and online ridicule this week -- not for something she said

France

Scuffles in Paris after demo for Theo

Hundreds of French high-school students have staged a protest against the police in Paris. There were sporadic outbreaks of violence after the protest broke up. Protesters blocked the entrances to a d

Sweden

'Mama Mia' Trump's Swedish meatballs spark Twitter titters

Trump's Swedish meatballs cause Twitter titters

Business Series

Facebook further blurs the line between social media and TV

Facebook is launching an app for smart TVs so the social network's users can watch its videos on a bigger screen.

USA

Euroviews. How to explain a complex issue in 140 characters:Trump's tweets

Trump has proven a more effective political communicator than his critics expected. But whether he can succeed in the long term with his unconventional approach is one of the great questions facing his presidency

Sweden

Sweden: Three men remanded in custody over Facebook live rape investigation

Two of the men were detained suspected of rape, while one man was detained on suspicion of failing to reveal rape.

USA

Milking it: Instagram account posts images of nipples to challenge gender norms

Genderless Nipples aims to topple 'sexist' social media censorship by challenging people to guess the difference between male and female teats.

Brazil

Mass escape after prison riot in Brazil claims 56 lives

Over 100 prisoners are on the loose and 56 have died after two rival drugs gangs ran riot in a Brazilian prison.