Prosecutors file 30 felony counts against a suspected 17-year-old "mastermind" of an epic Twitter hack, along with two others who allegedly helped hijack celebrity accounts to swindle people out of more than $100,000 in a cryptocurrency scheme.

Bahrain releases leading human rights activist Nabeel Rajab after a court agreed to pass an alternative sentence to the jail term he is currently serving over criticism of Manama and the Saudi war on Yemen.

For the first time, Twitter has flagged some of US President Donald Trump’s tweets with a fact-check warning.