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A magnificent mega-palace bursting with bling and rumoured to belong to Vladimir Putin can be viewed online on Google Maps. While hundreds of thousands of families flee the Russian president's controversial two-hour documentary , the plush pad offer

Comparing Tuesday’s unforgettable images with how these locations usually look via Google Street View shows the scale of the flooding

English Wine Shop in Noida’s sector 18, as its name indicates, is a place where you can buy liquor. It has a large, red signboard. From the outside, you can see the shop has brightly lit interiors. There are glass cabinets and refrigerators that look like they’re both well-used and…

Sending push notifications through a face-swapping app, adding pictures of the devastation from the bombings in Ukraine to Google Maps, hacking electric chargers… These are some of the tricks that are being used by Ukrainians to bypass Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strict censorship, and to make sure that accurate information…

Google Maps fans on Reddit are pondering over who 'Joe' could be after spotting a man cutting the name into a lawn outside of a home on Forest Crest Cresent, Virginia

Google Maps live traffic data could reveal the whereabouts of military operations

Comparing pictures of flooded streets with Google streetview images of the same thoroughfares shows the extent of the crisis

Alphabet Inc's Google confirmed on Sunday it has temporarily disabled for Ukraine some Google Maps tools which provide live information about traffic conditions and how busy different places are.

These Google Street View images have caught the attention of ECHO readers