Erstellt am: 23. 9. 2013 - 14:47 Uhr

Merkel set to beat Thatcher's record

Reality Check: German election results, poverty and disability, Al Shabab attack in Kenya, "Poking Florian"

As expected, Angela Merkel's CDU won the largest share of the vote in yesterday's elections, but not an overall majority.

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Angela Merkel celebrates a "super" result which puts her on course to beat Margaret Thatcher's record as Europe's longest serving female leader

She now needs to find a coalition partner. Kate Connolly reports from Berlin.

Poverty and disability

While leaders from around the world meet in New York, Marianne Schulz from Licht für die Welt, tells Chris Cummins about the importance of including disabilities in plans for combatting poverty in the developing world.

Al Shabab attack in Nairobi

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Emergency services rescue some of the injured from a fire started by the terrorists

The Kenyan capital has been rocked by an attack by militants from the Somali Al-Shaba group on a popular shopping centre.

The attack began on Saturday, and the Westgate Centre is still under seige. Africa analyst Richard Dowden, from the Royal African Society, explains why Al-Shabab have launched an attack outside their Somali homeland.

Poking Florian

Riem Higazi finds out about a new way of computer modelling a particular person's brain that allows direct interaction between the model and other people.

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