Across the World: Germany

CSU chief quits

The leader of the German conservatives in Bavaria, Erwin Huber, announced his resignation yesterday after his Christian Social Union (CSU) scored its worst result in decades in a state election.

The CSU, Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), lost the absolute majority it had held in Bavaria's state assembly for nearly half a century on Sunday and will be forced to form a coalition government.