A German student has confessed to stealing and leaking private data from hundreds of politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, because he was "annoyed" by some of their public statements. Police did not name the

An observer mission to Democratic Republic of Congo's presidential election said it had witnessed 52 "major" irregularities in the 101 vote-counting centres it observed, including people tampering with results. There are 179 counting centres

Departure flights resumed at London's Heathrow Airport on Tuesday after they were briefly suspended following reports of a drone sighting. "We are working with Air Traffic Control and the Met Police, and have resumed

A US envoy tasked with resolving the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and its Gulf Arab neighbours has quit his post citing "unwillingness" of regional leaders to engage in dialogue, according to CBS News. The

In the last 12 months, Latin America has seen a series of high-stakes elections, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) deliver its biggest-ever bailout package and Venezuela's economic collapse explode into the most severe migration crisis

(CNN) — The last person to officially record seeing a land iguana on Santiago Island in the Galapagos was Charles Darwin in 1835. After that, iguanas were erased from the island, wiped out by

(CNN)A far-right German lawmaker has been beaten unconscious by at least three masked assailants in an attack seen by police as "politically motivated."Frank Magnitz, a member of parliament and the leader of the anti-immigration

Hong Kong (CNN)At least one person is dead and two missing after an oil tanker caught fire south of one of Hong Kong's main islands. The fire broke out aboard a vessel transporting kerosene

Hong Kong (CNN Business)Samsung is the latest tech giant to warn that its business is suffering. The South Korean company said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter operating profit is set to plunge nearly 30% from

(CNN)A stand-up comedian and women's right-to-drive activist, Fahad al-Butairi and Loujain al-Hathloul, were once seen as a groundbreaking Saudi power couple in a country that was rapidly relaxing its strict social rules. Since then,