Nationalists Overtake Merkel's Party In German State Vote

The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has suffered a political setback in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania where her Christian Democratic Union party looks set to be relegated to third place.

Opposition supporters in Zimbabwe go to court on Monday to challenge a two-week ban on demonstrations.

A subspecies of the world's largest primate, the eastern gorilla, has been listed as critically endangered, suggesting that it is close to extinction. Four out of the six great apes are now threatened with extinction. Newsday chats to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.