Dozens of major internet websites have been brought down this afternoon.

The founder of Wikipedia is leading calls for search engines and social media sites to take themselves offline for an entire day over pending US legislation.

You may find this hard to believe if you feel inundated by web links to unamusing videos and spittle-flecked blog posts, but apparently we're not sharing enough stuff online.

Vodafone has "stolen the lead" from other internet companies and turned around its poor web-browsing speeds on the copper-based network.

A burglar seemed to have got away with a Christmas robbery - till 11,000 Facebook users joined forces to catch her.