Reddit downgrades the status of its technology section after it emerges that many popular terms had been banned from its headlines.

Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoner, Win Tin, has died aged 85 of kidney failure.

More than 100 firefighters tackling a huge blaze on an industrial estate in Leeds save nearby buildings from "certain destruction".

An Apprentice Boys feeder parade past St Patrick's Catholic Church on Belfast's Donegal Street passed off without incident.

Lawyers for the family of high profile Sinn Féin official and republican informer Denis Donaldson want Irish police to hand over his secret journal.

The success in Weibo has investors excited about the US stock debut of Alibaba, which is China's largest internet company.

A car bomb kills an MP and injures another in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, as the government hosts a security conference.

Avengers director Joss Whedon surprises fans by releasing his latest film online on the same night as its US premiere.

A 52-year-old woman dies and an 18-year-old man is in a critical condition following a crash in East Ayrshire.

Russia's President Putin presents a draft law to create a gambling zone in Crimea, now that the Kremlin has made it part of Russia.

The Queen's 88th birthday is being marked across the UK with the traditional gun salutes.

Netflix now accounts for more than half the video streamed over the internet.

The Kelpies, Scotland's largest art installation, has opened to the public at the Helix Park in Falkirk.

National Union of Teachers' conference votes for a summer-term strike over pay and workload.

The driver of a flatbed truck who "deliberately" crashed it into a house in Derby leaving it seriously damaged is hunted by police.

New figures show that malignant melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, is now five times more common than it was in the 1970s.

A teenage girl is told she had a yeast infection by doctors who failed to spot she had cervical cancer.

Actor Daniel Radcliffe gets five-star reviews for the Broadway production of The Cripple of Inishmaan.

Seven of the 85 Nigerian schoolgirls still missing after being abducted last week escape, the local state governor says.

Three more suspected al-Qaeda militants die in a drone strike in southern Yemen, reports say, bringing the total killed in three days to more than 40.