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India has taken down the local website of Cambridge Analytica following allegations the company used personal data of 50 million Facebook members to influence the US presidential election. SCL India, a venture between the SCL group in London and Ovleno Business Intelligence, says both India’s major political parties are its clients. The company has no charges against it. Facebook would ...

A British surgeon who helped Syrian doctors online has told the Telegraph he fears his computer was hacked, leading to an air strike on a hospital. David Nott, who has performed surgery in various war zones, helped his Syrian colleagues during an operation, via Skype and WhatsApp, on just one occasion. The 2016 operation was later broadcast by the BBC’s ...

NINTENDO Switch fans will soon be able to discover even more great games. Nintendo is about to shine the spotlight on more of the eShop’s hidden gems. In a recent GDC panel, the company announced plans to update the Nintendo Switch eShop. The aim is to improve how the eShop functions and make it easier to discover new content. That’s ...

MANCHESTER UNITED are reportedly only willing to pay £52m for Gareth Bale and that has not gone down well at Real Madrid. Bale looks set to leave Real at the end of the season following an injury-ravaged past two years at the Bernabeu. And a return to the Premier League, where he made his name during a six-season spells at ...

CRISTIANO RONALDO will reportedly end his opposition to Real Madrid signing Neymar if Florentino Perez hands him a new deal. Neymar has been on Perez’s radar ever since he broke on to the scene with Santos in his homeland of Brazil. And the Real president was given a glimmer of hope of one day securing his services when he left ...

CHELSEA have made an initial £55million bid for Inter Milan striker Mauro Icardi, according to reports. Chelsea are keen to get their transfer business underway before the World Cup, it seems, after a bid for Icardi was made today. That is according to Spanish newspaper AS, who claim Real Madrid are yet to get their act together over a rival ...

ALVARO MORATA is having a “bad time” at Chelsea but has received the backing from Diego Costa to turn the situation around. Morata was left out of the Spain squad for their international friendlies this week. The £60million striker joined Chelsea from Real Madrid last summer as a replacement for Costa, who went on strike in an effort to force ...

Information Minister Lai Mohammed said the girls were released “unconditionally”. “No money changed hands,” he told reporters in the capital, Abuja. He added: “As of now, the number (of girls confirmed to have been released) has increased to 101.” One of the missing girls’ parents, Kachalla Bukar, said Boko Haram militants shook hands and took pictures with them before leaving. ...

Harare – The United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Harry Thomas, has reportedly said that his country is willing to assist the southern African country in growing its economy and creating jobs following the resignation of ex-president Robert Mugabe last year. According to the state-owned Herald newspaper, Thomas made the remarks as he was paying a courtesy visit to Zimbabwe’s deputy president Constantino Chiwenga this ...

Kigali – African leaders on Wednesday signed what is being called the largest free trade agreement since the creation of the World Trade Organisation. The deal creates a continental market of 1.2 billion people, with a combined gross domestic product of more than $3.4 trillion. A major goal is to boost intra-African trade and rely less on the volatility of ...