The global creative publishing platform has confirmed former Yahoo! consumer marketing director EMEA Charles Davies has been appointed as its new managing director for Europe. Davies spent a decade with Yahoo! and in his last role as consumer marketing director EMEA was responsible for leading the consumer marketing strategy and implementation across the region.

The Wikimedia Foundation has accused French intelligence agency Direction Central du Renseignement Intrieur (DCRI) of censorship for reportedly forcing one of its volunteers to delete an article related to allegedly classified military secrets on the internet encyclopedia. According to the intelligence agency, the article, which has been online since 2009, depicted a military radio relay station at Pierre-sur Haute, between the Rhne-Alpes and the Auvergne, and was claimed to be a 'threat to national security'.

Jared Earle, a computer adminstrator, and Antonio Lulic, a musician, created the site which until Monday carried the simple message "Not yet" in large black letters and a sentence saying, "But when she is ... do you want to pay for her funeral?", linking to a Guardian comment piece from December 2011 in which the left-wing writer Sunny Hundal arguedthat "privatising Margaret Thatcher's funeral would be a fitting tribute to her legacy" .

Press Association broke the news of Baroness Thatcher's death to its subscribers after receiving a call from her spokesman Lord Bell. His statement said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning. A further statement will be made later." ITV's Twitter feed, @ITVNews, broke the news with a link to a short story at 12.48pm - a minute after PA put out the news.

Many UK customers of Sky are being deluged with thousands of old and deleted messages as the company switches email providers. In recent weeks Sky has stopped using Google to provide email services in favour of Yahoo. But the change has caused trouble as many customers are reporting that formerly deleted messages have been delivered again and again.

The merger, later this year, will result in it becoming the world's largest book publisher, selling one in four books in the UK, but it would still face competition from the likes of Rupert Murdoch's HarperCollins and online retailers such as Amazon. According to proposal, Random House's German parent firm, Bertelsmann, will own 53% of the new venture, with Pearson, Penguin's owner, controlling the remaining 47%.

For the last century, the U.K. has had what is known as a legal deposit law requiring a copy of every book, pamphlet, magazine and newspaper to be sent to the British Library, and allowing five other major libraries to also request copies. Now the rules are being updated: since Saturday, the same will apply to digital content, including blogs and other content published online.

It is tight-lipped amidst claims that more than a million households are skirting the annual GBP145.50 fee by watching television online. Bosses at the broadcaster are refusing to cooperate with FOI requests for such data, apparently fearful that if the true figure were to be made public they could be hit by a substantial loss of revenue as thousands of others follow their lead.

It will allow users to access the magazine's 'lean back' content directly through their desktop or laptop web browser. The Chrome app, which will be publicly released in May, is essentially a clone of the Economist's HTML5 app for the Blackberry Playbook and provides the content in an "immersive", finite magazine format rather than the potentially endless access available on the website.

MacKenzie's first, and only, column went live on Thursday 4 April, attracting more than 800 comments. Entitled,"Politics should be left out of the classroom Mrs Blower" he discussed the teaching profession, reality TV producers, banks and British Gas. However, many accused the Telegraph of "dumbing down" and by the end of the day Henry Winter, football correspondent at the Daily Telegraph, said that MacKenzie's column was a "one-off and won't be repeated".