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Tahera Ahmad, aged 31, was denied an unopened can of diet coke aboard her United Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington just after an unopened can was handed to another passenger. Ahmad, director of interfaith engagement and associate chaplain at Northwestern University,  was told that the refusal to hand her a coke was so that she wouldn’t “use it as a weapon.”

Controversial Bild tabloid's no-holes-barred media coverage of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps last month has generated a social media backlash in Germany, with a Twitter hashtag ? #bildboykott - widely circulating this week.

What advice would you give to your teenage self? That's the question posed by youtube in an effort to mark International Women's Day. The company urges video uploaders to post a letter to their younger selves using the hashtag #Dearme.

A pro-government pundit in Turkey has drawn the ire of social media users by advising sexually harassed women to ?shut up and see a doctor.?

Sevda Türküsev, a columnist for daily Yeni ?afak, participated in the social media campaign #sendeanlat (you tell your story too) on Feb. 16 with a controversial tweet.

A lawyer who has been threatened in the past by angry partners for providing legal support to women suffering from domestic violence, ?dil Elveri? from Bilgi University, started the ?sendeanlat? (?Tell Your Story?) hashtag on Twitter.

Turkish women started a social media campaign on Feb. 15 to help end violence against women by sharing their own sexual harassment stories under the hashtag #sendeanlat (you tell your story too), after a 20-year-old woman was brutally killed in southern Turkey.

A hashtag war between Turkish Twitter users has broken out, hours after police raided the printing press of Turkish daily Cumhuriyet on Jan. 14, as it prepared to distribute a four-page selection of Charlie Hebdo?s new issue in solidarity with the French satirical magazine.

‘If it happened in the world, it happened on Twitter.' That's how Twitter announced its annual moments, the most tweets, retweets and hashtags.

Kim Kardashian may be getting all the attention but the Metropolitan Museum in New York knows what a real statuesque booty looks like, the Nypost has reported. Joining in on the Twitter frenzy ignited by the reality star’s butt-baring appearance on a magazine cover, the museum has tweeted its own pic of an ample-bottomed sculpture that bears a striking resemblance.

Many Turks are still manipulating “trending topics” on Twitter, mostly for political aims, despite the social media giant’s attempts to stop them, a Hürriyet columnist has revealed through an experiment.