Hong Kong Votes

Hong Kong holds its first major elections since pro-democracy protests in 2014.

The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, appears to have suffered a political setback in the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Exit polls from regional elections indicate the anti-immigrant AfD (- Alternative for Germany) party has beaten Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union into third place.

In 2013, three friends set off on a journey that they had been told was impossible: the north-south crossing of the Congo River Basin, from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Juba, in South Sudan. Newsday speaks to two of the members of the team.