Trump plans to expand offshore drilling in Pacific and Atlantic

The Trump administration has proposed a controversial plan to open up protected areas in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans for offshore drilling.

The five-year plan expands drilling to most of the US outer continental shelf, including California and Maine, where drilling has been blocked for decades.

Environmentalists called it a "shameful giveaway" to the oil industry.

White House plans 'crackdown on legal cannabis'

California just became the sixth state to legalise it

US President Donald Trump's top law enforcement official plans to end an Obama-era policy that shielded legal marijuana from federal prosecution.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will repeal a Justice Department 2013 memo which instructed federal prosecutors to deprioritise federal cannabis crimes.

The Cole memo allowed states to legalise marijuana, and led to a blooming multi-billion dollar industry.

Mark Zuckerberg vows to 'fix' Facebook

Mr Zuckerberg said Facebook was making too many mistakes

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to "fix" Facebook, in what he described as his personal challenge for 2018.

In a post on his page on the social network, he said it was making too many errors enforcing policies and preventing misuse of its tools.

Mr Zuckerberg has famously set himself challenges every year since 2009. Facebook launched in 2004.

Social media firms have come under fire for allowing so-called fake news ahead of US and other elections to spread.

Virtual reality film shows terrifying reality of bushfires

The simulation is designed to warn Australians of bushfire dangers

Australian authorities have released a virtual reality recreation of nightmare bushfire scenarios.

The simulation is part of an effort to encourage residents in the state of Victoria to prepare for extreme danger.

Australia's south-east is braced for a scorching weekend with temperatures forecast as high as 45C (113F), bringing dangerous fire conditions.

Aadhaar: 'Leak' in world's biggest database worries Indians

Indian officials in charge of a controversial biometric identity scheme have filed a police complaint after a report that citizens' personal details were being sold for as little as 500 rupees ($7.8;£5.8) online.

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) wants a probe into "unauthorised access" to its database.

But it said biometric data was safe.