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Authorities face questions after Anis Amri manages to travel over 1,000 miles around Europe in spite of arrest warrant The hunt for Europe’s most wanted man ended in a gun battle outside a Milan train station in the early hours of Friday but left authorities facing tough questions about how an armed suspected terrorist had been able to travel hundreds of miles on public transport before being caught.Italy’s interior minister, Marco Minniti, said on Friday that the man shot in Milan was “without a shadow of a doubt” Anis Amri, who is suspected of carrying out Monday’s terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market . Fingerprints of the shot man matched those secured from within the cabin of the truck used to carry out the attack, German authorities confirmed.Amri was stopped by two police officers in a routine check in the Sesto San Giovanni neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city and was asked for his documents, Minniti said. Amri initial...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage during the Facebook F8 conference in San Francisco. Credit: REUTERS/Stephen Lam Art inspires life, right? Or maybe it is the other way around. Either way, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has taken a page from Tony Stark's book and created his own home-based A.I., called Jarvis, just like Tony Stark's is. So what was Zuckerberg...

AFP Yahya Jammeh accepted defeat, but is now trying to annul the election result The Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh has sacked the US ambassador who called for him to accept defeat to Adama Barrow in elections this month, according to a letter written by the ambassador. In a letter being shared on social media bearing the embassy's official stamp, Ambassador Omar Faye writes: I would like to inform my friends, colleagues and all Gambians that I have been recalled for home service. The ambassador says he will stand down willingly, adding he's like the long-serving ruler to follow his example: I hope and pray that president Jammeh will likewise hand over to President Elect Adama Barrow. He finishes his letter by urging all authorities, especially the army, which observers say is the key to the outcome of The Gambia's election crisis, to respect Mr Barrow's win in the 1 December election: I am hereby reminding all Gambian off...

The presidential election took center stage, but our readers were also fascinated by everything from particle physics and rage disorder to autism in girls and the polar vortex Credit: Getty Images It was a momentous year in science: astronomers detected gravitational waves for the first time, Zika virus spread around the globe and drought accompanied war to fuel a mass migration of refugees in Syria. These were among the stories our editors felt were the most important of 2016, and we invite you to read the entire collection . But we also wanted to know which stories most captured our readers’ attention this year, so we looked at the data. Here is a list of the two most visited articles in each of our core topic areas. And because U.S. election news led the headlines in 2016, scroll down to see our top five stories about President-elect Donald Trump. Space and Physics 1. Hints of new, exotic particles observed at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider stand to shak...

100.  All I Want for Christmas   It’s like House Arrest , but with all of the charm replaced by tinsel. Not based on the Mariah Carey song (but maybe it would have been better if it had been?). Worth one viewing for Leslie Nielsen as “Santa.” 99.  Christmas with the Kranks   Awful people celebrate Christmas too, you know! Based on a novel by John Grisham, the quality of this Tim Allen/Jamie Lee Curtis comedy depends mostly on one’s tolerance for oafish comedy and the manufactured elements of the holiday. 98.  Santa with Muscles   Starring Hulk Hogan as a millioniare-bodybuilder-turned-amnesiac-mall-Santa-crime-fighter, Santa with Muscles is a bonkers Christmas adventure that might have been better as a Yahoo Serious vehicle. Maybe. 97.  Fred Claus   Meet the Parents director David Dobkins throws millions at the screen to bring Santa’s workshop to life, even recruiting the perfect modern actor, Pau...