Nairobi apartment collapses trapping up to 15 people

About 15 people are feared trapped after a seven-storey building collapsed in a residential area in Kenya's capital.

Kenya Red Cross said the building, in Nairobi's Pipeline estate, had been vacated minutes before the collapse on Monday night but some people were missing and a search operation had begun.

As daylight came, excavators were sent in to begin removing the debris so a search could be carried out.

Image:The building was evacuated before it collapsed

Police said 121 people had been accounted for, but St John's Ambulance said it understood up to 15 were missing after the building went down.

Pius Masai, deputy head of communications at the National Disaster Management Unit, said: "It is believed that some people may have been trapped. Rescue efforts are ongoing,"

Witness Kamau Mwangi told Kenya's Star newspaper that people were told to leave the building when it showed signs of collapsing.

"But there are some people who sneaked back to collect some of their belongings before the building caved in," he said.

Image:Excavators move into clear the debris

"We haven't been able to scrutinise but we believe some people could be trapped."

Joas Nemati, a resident of the building, told the Daily Nation that on Monday workers and the caretaker repaired a massive crack on one of the staircases and assured them it was intact.

But Mr Nemati said that later his wife called him to say they had been ordered to leave immediately as the structure was about to come down.

Image:It is reported cracks were seen in the staircase before the collapse

The Daily Nation reported that a woman and her children had refused to leave their home and are among those unaccounted for.

The East African nation has seen similar tragedies in the past.

A total of 49 people died last year when another building collapsed during heavy night-time rain in Huruma estate, Nairobi.

Where are Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted in world's worst airport rankings?

Four British airports are among the worst 10 in the world, according to new rankings measuring punctuality, quality and service.

Gatwick, Stansted and Manchester were in the bottom five, while Edinburgh was the sixth worst-rated by AirHelp.

Worst 10 airports by ranking

:: Kuwait 5.02
:: London Gatwick 5.38
:: Manchester 5.43
:: Newark Liberty, New Jersey, USA 5.92
:: Stansted 6.07
:: Edinburgh 6.10
:: Mumbai, India 6.21
:: Dubai, UAE 6.24
:: Bangkok Suvarnabhumi, Thailand 6.30
:: Delhi, India 6.31

Heathrow was the only British airport to fly high as the 20th best airport. It fell between San Francisco and Vancouver.

Top 10 airports by ranking

:: Singapore Changi 9.07
:: Munich, Germany 8.66
:: Hong Kong 8.42
:: Copenhagen Kastrup, Denmark 8.04
:: Helsinki-Vantaa, Finland 8.03
:: Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky, USA 7.94
:: Barcelona El Prat, Spain 7.90
:: Madrid Adolfo Suarez-Barajas, Spain 7.81
:: Auckland, New Zealand 7.80
:: Frankfurt, Germany 7.76

Image:Singapore's Changi Airport clinched the top spot

Airlines were also ranked, with British Airways placed seventh worldwide out of 87 carriers, followed by Virgin Atlantic.

Ryanair and Monarch featured in the bottom five based on on-time performance, quality of service and how well airlines process claims for compensation.

Singapore soared above the competition again, its national carrier Singapore Airlines ranked the top carrier in the world.

Munich railway station shooting leaves several wounded

A number of people, including a female police officer, have been wounded after shots were fired at a railway station in Munich.

The police officer was shot in the head after a man grabbed her pistol and then fired at bystanders at the Unterfohring underground station.

Police said the officer's injuries are life-threatening but injuries to members of the public were less serious.

The incident is not believed to be terror-related and the suspect was detained after officers shot him.

Police spokesman Michael Riehlein said the area had been secured and there was no danger to the public.

Image:At least one officer has been injured in the shooting

Another police spokesman added: "The sole male perpetrator was motivated by personal reasons. There is no political or religious background here."

Police were called to the station following reports of an altercation involving passengers on a train.

When officers arrived the suspect tried to push them onto the tracks and then manged to grab the female officer's gun, police said.

London Eye owner sees terror impact on visitor numbers

The company behind some of Britain's biggest tourist attractions including Madame Tussauds and the London Eye said visitor numbers had been affected by recent terrorist incidents.

Merlin Entertainments said its London division saw a "softer domestic, day-trip market" after the Westminster attack in March with a "further deterioration" after those in Manchester and at London Bridge.

Shares fell 3%.

The company also said a number of its UK theme parks - which include Legoland, Chessington, Alton Towers and Thorpe Park - had been "adversely affected in recent weeks by the terror attacks and subsequent heightened security measures".

However, Merlin also said that visits by foreign tourists to its London sites had been boosted by the weakness of the pound - making their holidays to the UK cheaper.

It said this had continued in the immediate aftermath to the Westminster attack.

But the company was "cautious on trends in foreign visitation over the coming months" since the impact of the terror incidents would take time to filter through to holiday bookings.

Image:The Smiler ride at Alton Towers

Merlin chief executive Nick Varney said: "The impact of recent terror attacks on our London attractions is unclear at this stage.

"What is clear however is that London has bounced back before, and will do again.

"I have every confidence in the long term resilience and growth trajectory of the market.

"London is very much open for business, welcoming visitors from the UK and from around the world to this exciting and vibrant city."

Merlin, which operates more than 100 attractions around the world, earlier this year reported a 17% rise in annual profits, helped by the collapses in the pound after the Brexit vote.

Its wider performance has been overshadowed over the last couple of years by the crash on its Smiler ride at Alton Towers in June 2015 that resulted in a number of serious injuries.

Merlin was fined £5m over the incident last September.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube face fines for allowing 'evil' online extremism

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube could be slapped with multimillion-pound fines for failing to remove extremist and criminal content under plans by the UK and France.

Online radicalisation will be a top priority during the Prime Minister's visit to Paris on Tuesday, in which she will hold talks with new President Emmanuel Macron.

Image:This will be Theresa May's first foreign trip since the bruising general election

As part of new laws to be drawn up by the two leaders, tech giants face being hit with large financial penalties if they allow unacceptable content such as terrorist propaganda.

:: Analysis - Tension between May and Facebook over online extremism

Mrs May's first foreign trip since losing her majority at the General Election will not be the triumphant outing on the world stage that Downing Street will have envisioned - and she is likely to face ongoing questions publicly and privately about what a hung parliament will mean for Brexit and her leadership.

But ahead of the summit, Mrs May said the joint campaign would "ensure that the internet cannot be used as a safe space for terrorists and criminals".

Last month, in the wake of the suicide bomb in Manchester, leaders of the G7 states - the US, UK, Canada, Japan, France, Germany and Italy - agreed a package of measures to step up pressure on firms such as Google and Facebook to take down "harmful" content.

Speaking ahead of her visit to Paris, the Prime Minister said: "The counter-terrorism co-operation between British and French intelligence agencies is already strong, but President Macron and I agree that more should be done to tackle the terrorist threat online.

"In the UK we are already working with social media companies to halt the spread of extremist material and poisonous propaganda that is warping young minds.

"And today I can announce that the UK and France will work together to encourage corporations to do more and abide by their social responsibility to step up their efforts to remove harmful content from their networks, including exploring the possibility of creating a new legal liability for tech companies if they fail to remove unacceptable content.

"We are united in our total condemnation of terrorism and our commitment to stamp out this evil."

The governments of Britain and France will not just punish firms, but vow to lead joint work with the tech companies to develop tools to identify and remove harmful material automatically.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd will meet her French counterpart in the coming weeks to develop the plans.

A recent report by MPs said the companies were not doing enough to remove extremist content online which may be fuelling hate crimes.

The Home Affairs Select Committee pointed out that in Germany, the justice ministry was drawing up plans to levy fines of up to €50m for firms which did not remove illegal content.

Theresa May to hold crunch talks with DUP leader Arlene Foster

Theresa May will meet the DUP leader Arlene Foster later, whose support the PM will need in order to get her Queen's Speech passed through Parliament.

It comes after the Prime Minister apologised to her MPs for the election result, telling them: "I got us into this mess and I will get us out of it."

The first move in Mrs May's new reality of compromise politics is to listen to what the DUP hope to gain by offering the Conservatives their support.

:: Theresa May avoids leadership challenge - for now

It is thought the Prime Minister is preparing to ditch unpopular policies such as her social care reforms and plans to means test the winter fuel allowance.

Arlene Foster said her party wants to "support the national interest" and "bring stability to the nation".

She told Sky News: "We enter these talks in a positive fashion, we are first and foremost unionists and therefore we want to secure the union.

Trump analytics firm Cambridge Analytica denies helping Leave.EU campaign

The chief executive of Cambridge Analytica (CA), the controversial data analytics firm which worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, has denied his company helped the Leave.EU campaign, saying it had been the subject of politically motivated attacks.

Cambridge Analytica is at the centre of an investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) into the use of personal data by political parties, along with other companies.

Speaking exclusively to Sky News, Alexander Nix said that laws around data sharing would need to be changed, to keep up with current practice. He also said that the Conservatives had run an "ill-prepared" and "absurd" digital campaign.

Image:CEO of Cambridge Analytica Alexander Nix criticised the Tories 'absurd' campaign

He said: "A lot of the media that has been attacking us is liberalish, which means that they're pushing their own ideologies into print. Which is not very objective."

Over a series of articles, the Observer alleged that Cambridge Analytica had worked with the Leave.EU campaign during the Brexit referendum last year, but Leave.EU had failed to declare their contribution.

Cambridge Analytica has taken legal action over those articles.

Mr Nix told Sky News: "We've really been quite consistent to explaining to your colleagues in the press over very many months that we didn't work for any of the campaigns that were involved in Brexit."

I asked Mr Nix about an article he wrote for Campaign magazine, in February 2015, in which he said CA had "supercharged" Leave.EU's social media outreach.

"Yeah, look, that was an example of the cart pulling the horse, unfortunately.

"That was a press release written by a slightly over zealous PR adviser that was put out ahead of any work commencing with Leave.EU. At the moment that came to our attention, we were very quick to clarify that it was an error."

An article on Leave.EU's website, dated November 2015 but since removed, said that they "had hired the best people in the world" and that Cambridge Analytica "will be helping us map the British electorate and what they believe in".

Mr Nix dismissed the article.

Image:Supporters of the Leave campaign celebrate after the referendum result in June 2016

"This doesn't say we worked with them. This document says that we might be working with them. And that was the case, we did have a number of discussions with them.

"We viewed different options with different campaigns about working on the referendum and we decided that we weren't going to work on it and we didn't work on it."

In February 2016, Andy Wigmore, the communications director of Leave.EU, told the Observer that Cambridge Analytica had been "happy to help" Leave.EU.

Mr Nix told Sky News: "I think you'd have to speak to Andy about that. But I understand that since that interview, he's changed his position and I believe there was some confusion about our company and another that he had been working with or talking about working with."

Mr Wigmore told Sky News: "CA did zero paid work for us - it was a simple pitch process and set-up. If we won designation we would use them [CA]. It's that simple. We did not win so did not use them.

"It's true that we have strong relationships with many involved with CA and it's true we were involved with many other campaign organisations involved with the Trump campaign which is how we were initially introduced to CA."

Talking about the ICO investigation, Mr Nix told Sky News: "They clearly feel that they need educating at this point. This is a very fast moving space and I think it's important that policy makers are up to speed with all the changes that are happening.

"I've no doubt that as technologies improve and data becomes increasingly available, that legislation will have to be adapted."