Police have upped the ante on the Roast Busters investigation, appointing a woman detective with significant experience in child sexual abuse cases.

Police and ministerial heads must roll over the Roast Busters horror.

Young women are striking back against the Roast Busters Facebook gang in a bid to support alleged victims and stand up to what they say is a lack of action against rape culture.

The fact that when the Roast Busters story hit the news my 15-year-old daughter took one look at the television and said "Oh yeah, those guys. Everyone's seen their page."

A 15-year-old girl who says she was a victim of the Roast Busters group made a complaint to police two years ago, contradicting the official line that they could not prosecute members of the gang because no one had complained.

Police have been called after at least one copycat Facebook group appeared following the Roast Busters underage sex scandal.

Waitemata police have this afternoon spoken to two alleged members of the 'Roast Buster' group which boasted online about having sex with drunk teenage girls.

One of the founders of a group calling themselves the Roast Busters has apparently apologised online for his involvement in the group.

Wall St is aflutter over Twitter, which is this week set to make the most anticipated stock market debut since Facebook in a huge test for social media and the technology sector.

The Government is reviewing a voluntary code of conduct for wheel-clamping, which Labour and the Automobile Association want made mandatory, with a maximum $50 fee.

Twitter says its new changes make the social media platform "more visual and engaging" - but not all users are impressed, writes social media editor Paul Harper.

In the past week, Facebook has gone full circle on its policy around censoring violent material, writes Theresa Sauter.

A White House official was fired after it was discovered that he was behind an anonymous Twitter account that criticised the Obama administration.

It wasn't the first complaint about airline food, but it was definitely one of the most emphatic.

As firefighters and ordinary residents toil at the black-red coalface of NSW's bushfire crisis, their story of heroism and anguish is being told to the world.

A little piece of Paris and a part of media history steps into a new era today when the International Herald Tribune dies and is reborn as the International New York Times.

A blogger has sparked furious debate with a claim that Lorde's hit Royals is racist.

Twitter.inc last week filed the documents for an initial public share offer that will see it raise US$1 billion.

More than a million young people in Britain are subjected to extreme online bullying every day, according to the biggest survey of internet abuse.