Nicholas Watt, The Guardian

The White House distanced itself from Britain's handling of the leaked NSA documents when representatives said it would be difficult to imagine the US authorities following the example of Whitehall in demanding the destruction of media hard drives.

Home Office claims nine-hour detention of Guardian journalist's partner was justified to protect public from threat of terrorism

Britain is facing intense pressure to give a detailed explanation of the decision to detain the partner of the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald after the White House confirmed that it was given a "heads up" before David Miranda was taken into custody for nine hours at Heathrow.

PM pledges automatic filtering of adult material to protect children, plus outlawing of violent porn and blocking of illegal image searches

Alan Turing, the Enigma codebreaker who took his own life after being convicted of gross indecency under anti-homosexuality legislation, is to be given a posthumous pardon.