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USA adopts new measures to govern internet access

Tough new rules on how the internet should be run have been passed by America’s “Federal Communications Commission”

Turkey

Former Miss Turkey faces jail for "insulting" Recep Erdogan on Instagram

World News

Some of the lesser-reported stories from Europe and beyond

Our round up of the stories you may have missed this week from around the globe.

Business Planet

Riga at the heart of Europe's digital revolution

Start-ups in digital are a stunning success story in Europe's otherwise stagnating economy. As the experiences of many in Latvia show, there is nothing to stop SMEs going global.

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Obama urges tech firms to cooperate in tackling cybersecurity threats

Seeking to combat the terror threat, hackers and spies, President Barack Obama has signed an executive order encouraging tech firms to share data on

World News

You may have missed: Under-reported stories from Europe and beyond

They didn’t make the international headlines but they captured the imagination of euronews team of international reporters so we have gathered

USA

Barack Obama's silly Buzzfeed video goes viral

US president Barack Obama appears fairly un-presidential in a new video produced by Buzzfeed to encourage Americans to enrol in an Obamacare health

Business Planet

Delve into digital: tapping into Europe's online start-up potential

As Europe's economy stagnates the digital sector is soaring, with web-based start-ups such as Yoopies setting the pace

World News

Sweet tweets as Twitter beats Wall Street revenue targets

Twitter has surpassed Wall Street’s profit and revenue targets boosting shares in one of the world’s top social media services.

USA

Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht guilty of running vast online drugs trade

The suspected operator of the underground website Silk Road was convicted on Wednesday over his role in orchestrating a scheme enabling around $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoin

My Europe Series

Shining a light on the Dark Net

Want a fake passport? How about an arsenal of guns? Or just click online and with anonymity assured you could be dealing in drugs. It’s all there in

World News

Facebook says hackers not to blame for temporary outages of its sites

World News

Glitter, Yo and messages from the dead: bizarre business successes

USA

YouTube bloggers interview Obama at White House

YouTube video bloggers have been giving US President Barack Obama a grilling. The video interviews were shown on the White House YouTube page – and

USA

Nine things to know about Windows 10

Did you miss Windows 9? You're not alone. We take a look at the new Windows 10, which will be free for some users.

France

Francois Hollande: more needs to be done to get terrorists off the web

Action against terrorism must now be collective and coordinated, says French President

My Europe Series

Words as weapons: what's Europe doing to tackle hate on the net?

This week Utalk answers a question from Caroline in Avignon, France on the issue of hate content on the internet: “Lots of hate comments are being

World

Learning as easy as A, B, free

This week we visited the UK, Greece, Egypt and America to see how different projects aim to open up the world of knowledge.

World News

Sony Playstation Network back online after cyber attack

Sony’s Playstation Network is back online, one day after Microsoft’s Xbox was also restored. A hacker group called “Lizard Squad” claimed

Canada

Liz Gallagher has the name to board the plane as she accepts jilted Jordan's ticket to ride

Not Noel or Liam, but Elizabeth is the lucky Gallagher who gets to travel round the world for free. Toronto resident Jordan Axani issued a plea for a