The British YouTubers, The Slow Mo Guys, bring in an epic slow motion video of a giant water balloon exploding after being filled with water along with a man inside it.

In two days, till last count at 6:30pm on Monday, the video had fetched 2,250,348 views, 100,161 likes and 118,647 shares on Facebook.

Bangladeshi-American engineer Shah Talukder had definite reasons to feel proud when his daughter launched a language coaching programme for poor students back in his motherland four years ago. And he had reasons to be frustrated too when Leilah, in the US, had trouble communicating with her students in Bangladesh due to hartals, weather, or traffic jams.

Tweets and YouTube videos by fighters from the Islamic State group have allowed analysts to pinpoint their movements in Iraq and Syria, highlighting the group's increasing push towards government strongholds.

YouTube is creating an online arena devoted to video game play, jumping onto a hot "e-sports" trend and challenging Amazon-owned Twitch.

So how do you rock YouTube? These are some tips for making the most of YouTube come from Gideon Mountford, Head of Video for Believe Digital, speaking at music industry conference Sound City in Liverpool, UK.