Two prominent US bloggers who were due to speak at a far-right rally in Woolwich on Saturday have been banned from entering the UK, the Home Office has said. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, who set up Stop Islamization of America, and run the website Jihad Watch, have been forbidden from entering the country on the grounds their presence would "not be conducive to the public good".

The Huffington Post has launched Al Huffington Post Maghreb, a French-language edition of the site covering Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria (the Maghreb region). "The launch comes at a time when the Maghreb region, perhaps as much as any other in the world, is undergoing a seismic transformation - socially, politically, economically - which has drawn the world's attention to Maghreb and its people and put the spotlight on its enormous untapped potential," HuffPo president and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington wrote in a blog post.

Co-founder of Liveblog Pro Joseph Stashko has announced he is to join the Times and Sunday Times as a digital news development editor next month. Stashko, who most recently freelanced at ITV News and Associated Press Television News, will report to head of news development at the Times Pat Long and deputy head of digital Lucia Adams.

Following the split between News Corporation and 20th Century Fox, which was finalised earlier this month, the UK publishing arm of the business will now be known as News UK. The change in name will include a new logo which the company has introduced with immediate effect, claiming that it aims to convey 'a more coherent and logical identity' for its new parent company.

We can all remember where we were when the big news stories of our time stopped us in our tracks. But so accustomed have we become to hearing about breaking news on social media first, many of us are going to have strikingly similar answers when we're asked that age old 'where were you when...' question about the defining events of our generation. With weary familiarity we'll say we were in front of our phone, tablet or computer - staring at Twitter.

The search engine company hailed the opinion of the advocate general. Search engine company Google need not remove personal information from its search results, an adviser to the EU's top court said. European Court of Justice Advocate General Niilo Jskinen said that although Google was subject to EU data protection laws, responsibility does not fall on it for content produced by third parties, including newspapers and TV channels.

Charity Nesta, which carried out the research, said the linking would also counteract the negative impact the corporation has on local news outlets. The study, Destination Local, sought to understand how hyperlocal news organisations can increase their reach and impact. As part of the research, Nesta funded the development of mobile-enabled hyperlocal projects across the UK, provided each with up to GBP50,000 last July.

Two hundred fifty-six million is the combined weekly reach of the BBC World Service, BBC World News and the global-facing website BBC.com/news. The only domestic viewers/listeners included in that total are the 2 million who access the World Service in the UK, meaning the total non-UK based audience of the BBC's news output is estimated at 254 million. The reach of the BBC's internationally-facing websites is said to have increased by 8 million to 38 million people a week.

Rihanna has taken to Instagram to vent her frustrations at Daily Mail columnist Liz Jones who labelled her a 'poisonous pop princess' and 'toxic' in a recent article. The lengthy post attacks Jones for calling the Bajan star a bad role model and criticising her dress sense, image and personal life choices. In her article Jones takes issue with the pop star's series of Twitter pictures from this weekend featuring Rihanna smoking marijuana and her rekindled romance with Chris Brown.

Hurray for Google: the US company has beat back Germany's latest effort to tax its search results. The victory, though, is small consolation at a time when other European countries are trying similar tricks to force Google to prop up their struggling publishing industries.