San Francisco - The Turkish government has banned access to photo slideshow service Slide in the country, after a local court found that the site was "harboring pictures and articles that are considered to be insulting to Ataturk," in a country where insulting the founder of the republic is a crime, according to a Slide spokesperson.

Ankara, Turkey - YouTube will be blocked in Turkey again, after a court there ordered the country's telecommunications company to deny access to the site when clips deemed insulting to politicians were discovered, the Associated Press reported.