Mastercard has cancelled an advertising campaign featuring Brazilian soccer star Neymar after a woman accused him of raping her in a Paris hotel, newspaper 'O Estado de S Paulo' reported on its website yesterday.
A German nurse has been found guilty of murdering 85 patients, aged 34 to 96.
Using the internet is physically changing our brains so that we have shorter attention spans and worse memory, a major study has suggested.
Germany's Greens have proposed holding coalition talks in the city state of Bremen with the Social Democrats (SPD) and far-left Linke, in a reminder to Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives that even if they come first in any elections, they are not guaranteed power.
The Social Democrats emerged as Denmark's biggest party after its elections on Wednesday, with preliminary results indicating gains for left-leaning parties and a big loss for populists.
Joe Biden put clear water between himself and other Democrat presidential candidates on the issue of abortion as he pulled into a surprise poll lead over Donald Trump in Texas.
The United States is pursuing the sale of more than $2bn (€1.8bn) of tanks and weapons to Taiwan, four sources have said, sparking anger from Beijing which is already involved in an escalating trade war with Washington.
