Australia’s top online safety regulator has revealed she received death threats and a wave of online abuse after introducing a controversial policy to restrict social media access for children under 16.

Britain is witnessing a rise in violent threats and physical attacks against young women and girls aged 16–25, including an increase in strangulation and suffocation cases, according to leading domestic abuse charity Refuge.

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into death threats made against the organisers of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.