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The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been taken into police custody to be questioned over allegations that he received millions of euros in illegal election campaign funding from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy, who...

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users are likely to have had their private information harvested by companies that exploited the same terms as the firm that collected data and passed it on to Cambridge Analytica, according to a...

A top German health body has released a report on children’s health. Obesity, smoking and psychological issues all remain problems. One in five children in Germany show indications of having psychological problems, according to a study released...

Across the continent packets of data come at all sorts of different costs and in various sizes. But often the poorest are penalized the most. So, given the choice, would you choose food or data? Costs...

The bears are considered to be the national animal of China. Their awarding is an important diplomatic gesture and a good deal. So that it works better with the panda offspring, the animals should get more...

World leaders are weighing in with praise as well as harsh criticism for Putin’s re-election victory in Russia. Officials say the president garnered almost 77 percent of the vote, with an estimated turnout of 67 percent....

Germany’s Angela Merkel is carrying a message of EU unity on her trip to Warsaw. But with tensions simmering over refugee quotas and Poland’s controversial judicial reforms, the chancellor had to walk a fine line. German...

Donald Trump will announce death penalties for drug dealers on Monday. A top administration official said on Sunday the president’s plan to combat opioid drug addiction nationwide, to be announced in New Hampshire on Monday, calls for the...

Vladimir Putin is set for another six years in power after winning a record victory in Russia’s presidential election, despite opposition activists highlighting a number of cases of vote rigging. Final results released on Monday morning showed...

A British woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Afrin, northern Syria, has been killed, her Kurdish commanders have said. Anna Campbell, from Lewes, East Sussex, was volunteering with the US-backed Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) – the...