Apple says it has asked the body responsible for the standard list of emoji text-message pictures to create a character set with greater racial diversity.

A woman who was abandoned in 1986 as a newborn in a US fast-food restaurant bathroom finds her birth mother after launching a social media search.

England respond to an opening-game defeat with a five-wicket win over India at the Women's World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.

A court in Turkey orders the suspension of a controversial ban on the social media site Twitter but it could be weeks before it takes effect.

British singer Kate Bush announces she is to play a further seven dates in the UK this year, in addition to the 15 shows previously announced.

Raymond "Jerry" Roberts - the last surviving codebreaker to work on high-level Nazi communications at Bletchley Park - dies, aged 93.

Ukraine's interim government says it will raise gas prices for domestic consumers by 50% in an effort to secure an IMF aid package.

Leeds' owners are in talks with Massimo Cellino and other third parties as they attempt to to fill a wages shortfall.