President-elect Joe Biden has called a massive cyber hack of the US government a "great concern" and said it will be a top priority for him from the moment he takes office.
Tackling inequality should be "led by facts not by fashion" and the government intends to "move well beyond" focusing on issues of sex, race and gender reassignment, a cabinet minister has said.
More than 300 schoolboys who were kidnapped purportedly by militant group Boko Haram in northern Nigeria have been freed, according to the governor of Katsina state.