Last Week of Campaigning in French Elections

In one week we'll finally know the result of France's presidential election. Polls consistently point to the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron beating the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. France will be on extra high alert today as protesters use the traditional May 1st marches to stage a show of force against Marine Le Pen.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, more than a million civilians were forced to leave their homes due to the political crisis last year. Many of those who fled are in desperate need of help and the UN refugee agency has arrived in neighbouring Angola to create a make shift camp.

Mark Zuckerberg - CEO of Facebook – had told staff he wanted to meet traditional Democrats who had voted for Donald Trump as president. The Silicon Valley team got to work, and found Daniel Moore - who voted for Barack Obama twice, but campaigned heavily for Mr Trump. He tells Newsday what he thought when Mr Zuckerberg turned up for dinner unexpectedly.