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Leroy Sane was on the verge of signing a contract at Bayern Munich. Then, Pep Guardiola called him. In our exclusive Interview, Sane talks about Guardiola, his rise and his goals with Manchester City.

A German computer scientist got sucked into  world politics searching for a subject for his dissertation. Then he uncovered one of the world‘s most wanted cyber criminals: a Russian hacker who might also be a spy.

An American data expert took on a secret mission and uncovered how a Chinese army of hackers had spent years fighting against the USA. This case shows how cyber war works – and what Germany will soon have to deal with.

The USA spent years trying to catch the Russian cyber criminal Evgeniy Bogachev with a record bounty – to no avail. Bogachev evidently cooperates with the Russian secret service, which willingly uses criminal hackers as spies.

What were the voter flows in the German election? Who lost votes to the AfD? And where did CDU/CSU supporters go?

First, the Chancellor crushed the FDP, now the SPD. Always assuming there is no rebellion within the Union, Merkel is going to have to face questions about why all her partners end up being destroyed.

In this year’s elections to the German parliament, or Bundestag, we saw a rise in support for the right-wing party the AfD. Where did these voters come from?

Cut a country up into little pieces and no two parts are likely to be the same. That much is clear from the huge variety of shapes, sizes and characteristics making up the voting districts for this Sunday’s election in Germany.

The picture from the key battlegrounds of the UK election shows that the Conservatives increased their vote everywhere. The problem for Theresa May? Labour did too.

On Thursday, British Prime Minister Theresa May wants to unveil her roadmap for Brexit. Her Chancellor of the Exchequer forges ahead – with a clear message to the Britain‘s EU partners.

Minutes after the attacks on the Breitscheidplatz Christmas market in Berlin the police caught a suspect: a refugee from Pakistan. But now evidence show that he is not guilty, police officials admit.

Iranian opposition leaders said they would attend a memorial ceremony on Thursday for protesters killed since the disputed June presidential election, defying a stern threat by revolutionary guards to break up the gathering. Defying the clerical establishment’s ban on any such ceremony, Mousavi and Karoubi accepted the invitation of Neda’s mother to mark the 40th day since her death.

Indonesia is investigating an internet posting that claims to be from Islamic militant Noordin Top taking responsibility for this month’s suicide bomb attacks on two luxury hotels in Jakarta, an official said on Wednesday. The July 17 attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton killed nine and wounded 53, including Indonesians and foreigners.

Authorities in the northern Nigerian state of Borno said on Thursday they had beaten back Islamic radicals behind unrest which has killed more than 180 people. The army shelled parts of a compound in the state capital Maiduguri belonging to Mohammed Yusuf, leader of the militant Boko Haram sect, on Tuesday. Soldiers have been going door to door arresting scores of his suspected followers since the

The U.S. and China laid out a shared vision of how to lead the global economy out of recession but had little to show diplomatically from two days of talks on topics from climate change to North Korea. At the conclusion of the first round of what will be an annual dialogue, the countries agreed to take steps to rebalance the global economy .

Nigerian soldiers in armoured personnel carriers patrolled the northern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday searching for remaining members of an Islamic sect behind clashes which have killed more than 150 people. "It appears that the security forces have the situation under control," national police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said.

A car bomb exploded outside a Civil Guard barracks in the northern Spanish city of Burgos early on Wednesday, injuring 46 people in an attack authorities blamed on Basque separatist rebels ETA. The blast ripped away most of the outer wall of the multi-storey barracks in of the biggest attacks for some time by ETA, whose ranks have been decimated by arrests.

A law enforcement officer has alleged the late pop icon was regularly given Propofol – an anaesthetic to put people to sleep before surgery and only supposed to be used in hospitals – to help him sleep. According to multiple website reports, the anonymous source claims "Dr. Conrad Murray administered the powerful drug on the last night of the 50-year-old's life".

Muslim rebels on Monday expanded their attack on Nigerian security forces to three northern states, with at least 80 people dead in two days of clashes, security sources said. Gun battles between police and members of a local Islamic group, which wants a wider adoption of Islamic law across Nigeria, were reported in Yobe, Kano and Borno states.