On Wednesday, while the political world was focused on the news that former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen had been sentenced to three years in prison for a variety of crimes, something else of potentially huge import got somewhat glossed over: American Media Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer, admitted it had helped facilitate a hush payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal and agreed to cooperate with the ongoing investigation being run by the Southern District of New York.

Amazon has teamed up with police in the US in an effort to stop thieves who steal parcels left outside homes.

President Donald Trump publicly clashed Tuesday with the top House and Senate Democrats over funding for the border wall and the threat of a government shutdown during an Oval Office meeting that was open to the press, a sign of what divided government in Washington may look like next year.

France's beleaguered president, Emmanuel Macron, will address the nation later Monday amid widespread protests that over the past four weeks have morphed from a grassroots movement against fuel tax hikes, to disparate demonstrations against his presidency.

The methods Facebook uses to thwart ad-blocking technology have been criticised by web developers.

Emails written by Facebook's chief and his deputies show the firm struck secret deals to give some developers special access to user data while refusing others, according to MPs.

America may get its most intimate look yet inside Robert Mueller's secretive Russia investigation in the next four days, with a series of disclosures that have the potential to be greatly damaging for President Donald Trump.

Google staff have pledged $200,000 (£157,000) to engineers if they go on strike over the firm's work on a censored search engine for China.

Facebook has started to enforce its tighter political advertising rules in the UK.

Staff at Google have called on the search giant to end work on a controversial search engine project for China.