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The Facebook data of up to 87 million people – 37 million more than previously reported – may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, the company has revealed. This larger figure was buried in the penultimate paragraph...

The app for gay and bisexual men has confirmed that it was sharing users’ HIV status with third-party companies. Activists and users have called for a boycott. Users were calling for a boycott of the gay...

Shakila Zareen, 23, lost much of her face after being shot by her husband but, after multiple surgeries and seeing her hopes of resettlement dashed, she has a new home in Vancouver.When she arrived at her...

The Rev Dr William Barber’s arrival in the world was full of portent. He was born on 30 August 1963, two days after Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech at the March on Washington, and two...

The Swedish music-streaming platform Spotify goes public on Tuesday, following in the footsteps of fellow “unicorns” Dropbox and Zscaler. The stock market is healthy and the timing seems good, but what are the risks? Drew Houston...

Barclays has agreed a $2bn (£1.4bn) settlement with the US justice department over the sale of mortgage-backed securities in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis. The settlement follows a three-year investigation into allegations that the bank...

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal, there has been a glaring lack of leadership from Facebook. Almost five days of silence passed before its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, faced the public with a post to...

Distraught families are demanding information from the Venezuelan authorities about how at least 78 people died in a fire while they were locked in police cells. Police fired teargas as relatives clashed with police outside the...

A WWF report has named the British meals with the highest carbon footprints, with lamb cawl topping the list. So which foods are more sustainable? Hell hath no fury like a sheep farmer told that his...

Heineken has removed a commercial for its light beer after some complaints that it was racist. The ad featured a bartender sliding a bottle of Heineken Light. The bottle passes several black people before it arrives...