France's new president, François Hollande, is not married to his partner, the glamorous political journalist Valerie Trierweiler, and no one seems to care. Germany's president, Joachim Gauck, is not married to his partner, the journalist Daniela Schadt, and no one seems to care.

Around six million users of the social networking site LinkedIn have had their passwords stolen, according to technology experts. The website, popular with businessmen and women, has confirmed that it was hacked after a file containing 6.5million encrypted passwords was published on a Russian hackers' web forum.