Kevin Pietersen fined for Twitter rant
Kevin Pietersen has been fined an "undisclosed sum" by the England and Wales Cricket Board after a Twitter attack on former batsman Nick Knight.
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Pakistan blocks Twitter over blasphemy
Pakistan has blocked access to Twitter in response to "blasphemous" material posted by users on the website, a senior government official says.
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FHM model's racist tweet ignites anger
South Africans on Twitter have been left seething after a racist tweet by FHM model Jessica Leandra made the rounds.
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Women's league condemns 'depraved' videotape rapists
The African National Congress Women's League has expressed outrage, anger and disgust at the gang rape of a 17-year-old Soweto teenager.
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France warns Twitter users not to 'bugger' the election
French social media users have been warned not to "bugger" the country's election by talking about exit poll results before voting is officially over.
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DJ Fresh and the cartoon scandal
Women abuse AND the secrecy Bill? DJ Fresh's hasty comments spell trouble, writes Verashni Pillay.
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Burma journalists use social media to report on elections
Burma's journalists will take to Twitter and Facebook in their battle to beat press restrictions and deliver breaking news of Sunday's by-elections.
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Twitter racist jailed for Muamba comments
Liam Stacey, arrested for inciting racial hatred after Bolton star Fabrice Muamba collapsed on the field during a soccer match, has been jailed.
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Swaziland's Mswati III cracks the whip on social media
Swaziland is planning a censorship law that will ban Facebook and Twitter users from criticising Africa's last absolute monarch, King Mswati III.
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'Let's have Bateman kill David Beckham in a lift'
Brett Easton Ellis is mulling a sequel to American Psycho in which Patrick Bateman murders David Beckham and analyses Whitney Houston's oeuvre.
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