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Facebook will inform six important committees in the House of Representatives and the Senate, including those of justice, about the use of customer data at the Executive Board on Wednesday. Worldwide, the pressure on the social media company has been stepped up to explain what may have gone wrong in terms of privacy. American parliamentarians, as well as their EU colleagues, called senior manager Mark Zuckerberg to account.

The chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, Alexander Nix, has been put on non-active by his employer. That reports Bloomberg news agency.

The ashes of the world-famous British scientist Stephen Hawking is buried at Westminster Abbey in the center of London. His remains are so close to those of Issac Newton (1643-1727) and Charles Darwin (1809-1882), reported the BBC.

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg must reassure the 500 million EU citizens about their privacy. The President of the European Parliament wants clarity from the head of the social medium that their personal data 'have not been used to manipulate democracy,' according to Antonio Tajani.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opens an investigation into Facebook, reports Bloomberg news agency on the basis of insiders. The regulator would like to check whether the internet company has violated privacy guidelines.

Mark Zuckerberg lost $ 5 billion after The fall of Facebook on the stock market thanks to the scandal with abused data.

A scoop from the Guardian and the New York Times about how Britain's consulting firm Cambridge Analytics abused data from 50 million benevolent Facebook users is causing a stir. It is a complicated story, so what exactly is it?

EU Commissioner Vera Jourova travels to Washington on Monday for discussions on data protection. She wants to clarify Facebook and the US government about possible abuse of private information from 50 million Facebook users by the Cambridge Analytica data company, the Czech informed.

The Massachusetts authorities are starting an investigation into the use of private information from tens of millions of Facebook users. The Cambridge Analytica data company would have used the data to make profiles of American voters, messages The New York Times and The Observer.

The British physicist Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76. That has been announced by a spokesman for the family. Hawking died Wednesday in his home in Cambridge.

The British Prince William will be the first British 'royal' to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel this summer. The 91-year-old British Queen Elizabeth II, who has been ruling since 1952, has never visited Israel, which is based in the former British mandate of Palestine.

A talented young scientist at the University of Cambridge has sexually abused children and adults sexually over the internet for eight years.

The 52-year-old brother of Kate Middleton's mother has been charged with maltreatment after he had fallen his wife Julie-Ann with a left-hand corner.

A 8.5-ton Chinese space station, which has become unmanageable, comes closer to Earth and can crash over a few months.

The Royal Foundation, the charity organization of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, will raise £ 2 million in dealing with mental illness. The money goes to a company that develops digital resources that make it easier for people to talk about their mental state and to seek digital help.

Princess Catherine is expecting her third child. That has confirmed Kensington Palace in a statement on Twitter.

Prince William and wife Catherine attended the Battle of Passendale on Sunday in the Belgian Ypres. It took place a hundred years ago. They were accompanied by King Philip and Queen Mathilde at the ceremony.

Technology and, in particular, social media can divide society as they aim to bring people together. That warning gave Apple CEO Tim Cook in a university speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A meeting with Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, in Luxembourg, is a shy jochie Thursday a little too much. The guy was allowed to hand over the beautiful Kate, but suddenly burst into tears.

Prince William and his wife Catherine are on the 7th of June in the smallest city in Belgium. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge commemorate in Mesen the 1917 Mine Battle. It was a milestone in the history of the First World War.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, on Thursday informed empathize with the victims of the attack on Wednesday in London. Before they introduced a documentary series on mental health of young parents, stated the wife of Prince William her compassion.

Prince Harry was years ago Usain Bolt already too quick and Sunday were also his brother Prince William and his wife Catherine no match for him. That became clear when the three pulled a sprint at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

The record of most visitors to the inauguration Donald Trump has his dissatisfaction over not achieved, he has to tackle another record. Never before has an event been so many times over the internet. That the American company Akamai, which took care published for transporting images to users Tuesday.

Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine moved to London next summer. That made Kensington Palace on Friday via Twitter.

The online store Amazon has delivered a pack a drone for the first time. This can be seen in a video that has put the Internet giant on Twitter.

A seventeen-year-old British boy was convicted Tuesday for hacking provider TalkTalk last year. He got twelve months re-education, his iPhone was confiscated. At the hack the data of 157,000 customers of TalkTalk were captured.

A supermarket chain in Australia must pay 60,000 euros compensation to a woman who slipped on a grape in the store.

A seventeen year old boy from the UK Cambridge has built an electric skateboard. He did so with a Raspberry Pi Zero which he bought for a few pounds. reports the BBC Tuesday.

Prince William might be traveling next year off to the United States. According to The Sunday Times wants the British prince there with the directors of tech giants like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple talk about internet bullying.

Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Thursday at the age of 88 deceased in a hospital in Bangkok. "His royal highness is peacefully asleep in Siriraj-hospital", the Thai government said, adding that his death had occurred at 15:52 am local time.