New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Bill English said on Monday (Dec 5) that he is considering running for the leadership of the ruling National Party after the surprise resignation of Prime Minister John Key.
A humble rail worker who shot to fame for pulling a suicidal man off train tracks was honoured by Bangladesh authorities on Sunday (Dec 4), as footage of his heroism went viral.
Anxiety about bogus news reports is rising in Europe, as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and others express concern that fake news circulated over social media may influence elections on the continent, including a critical referendum in Italy today.
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name former Goldman Sachs partner and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as his nominee for Treasury secretary, a source said on Tuesday (Nov 29), putting a Wall Street veteran in the top US economic Cabinet post for the first time in eight years.
President-elect Donald Trump is well into filling out his Cabinet and picking key advisers. But a move to challenge the vote tallies in three swing states - an extreme long-shot to reverse his Electoral College majority - is advancing in the background, creating a noisy distraction on Mr Trump's Twitter feed and raising last-ditch hopes of some Hillary Clinton supporters.
As families across a bitterly divided America gathered for Thanksgiving Day, a battle erupted in President-elect Donald Trump's camp over his pick for secretary of state, with loyalists seeking to block the path of Mr Mitt Romney, a fierce former critic of the billionaire.
When Mr Bishnu Pandey, a Nepali migrant working in India, returned home two weeks ago, he had hoped to clear a loan taken by his family to rebuild its village home with his savings.
Mr Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka, accused of a potential conflict of interest as she helms her own brand while making frequent appearances with her President-elect father, is separating her business and personal social media accounts.
President-elect Donald Trump has begun to broaden the base of his future cabinet, nominating two conservative women including a critic, after his earlier picks rewarded campaign loyalists.
Mr Donald Trump on Wednesday (Nov 23) named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a former critic with little foreign policy experience, to be the next US ambassador to the United Nations at a time of uncertainty over America's international role under his presidency.
Once again, US President-elect Donald Trump seems to have gone out of his way to embarrass the British government.
Some of Mr Donald Trump's strongest conservative supporters are voicing anger and disappointment at the President-elect's comments that he won't recommend prosecution of former rival Hillary Clinton.
An Australian teenager could face up to 12 years in jail after being arrested in Bali, Indonesia, on suspicion of possessing a drug.
Any moves by US president-elect Donald Trump to ban Muslims from entering the United States or bring back waterboarding to interrogate suspects could have repercussions for some of his sprawling foreign business interests - from his golf course in Scotland to luxury resorts in Indonesia.
Tom Ford, left, the fashion designer and film director, and Ben Mankiewicz, a host on the Turner Classic Movies network, at lunch at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood, Calif.
Britain's first post-Brexit budget will focus on infrastructure and could spell an end to the previous government's rigid fiscal targets, according to a treasury statement released yesterday.
French voters defied expectations on Sunday (Nov 20) by throwing ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy out of the race to be the conservatives' nominee for the presidential election and propelling his ex-prime minister Francois Fillon to top spot.
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