Shares in social media company Snap, which runs the youth-focused Snapchat, soared nearly 25 percent on Thursday after it reported more quarterly revenue than expected by analysts.Snap reported revenue of $1.2 billion compared with $989 million in the same period a year earlier.
As a mother who is almost 40 and who was born in Iran, the new Miss Germany Apameh Schoenauer stood out at the beauty pageant. "I took part in Miss Germany because I wanted to change something," said Schoenauer, an architect and mother of a toddler, who moved to Germany aged six.
Corruption in Venezuela's oil industry is a many-headed monster that has devoured billions of dollars in taxpayers' money in the past 20 years, experts say. To date, oil-related graft has cost the country tens of billions of dollars, with "very little chance of getting it back," she said.