Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to meet US president-elect Donald Trump next week in New York, officials said on Thursday (Nov 10) after telephone conversation between the two following the billionaire's shock election win.
Democrat Tim Kaine may not come across as poised or as polished as the Republican candidate for vice-president Mike Pence, but he has brought more of a common man quality to the campaign than anyone in either camp.
Actor Brad Pitt is seeking joint custody of his six children in his split from Angelina Jolie, court filings show.
Gable Tostee, 30, was charged after Warriena Wright, 26, fell in 2014 from his balcony in Queensland's Gold Coast.
Russia on Thursday (Nov 4) criticised UN chief Ban Ki Moon's decision to fire a Kenyan peacekeeping commander in South Sudan as premature, saying the mission there was now "in ruins" after Kenya vowed to withdraw all its troops in response to the move.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday (Nov 3) accused Germany of being one of the worst countries in the world for harbouring "terrorists", saying Berlin had not responded to requests to hand over suspects from the July 15 failed coup.
Basuki Tjahja Purnama, a Christian, is the first ethnic Chinese to hold the governor's post in the capital of majority Muslim Indonesia.
At least 239 migrants, believed to be from West Africa, have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, a spokesman for the United Nations migration agency, said on Thursday (Nov 3).
Wikileaks revelations continue to hound the Democratic campaign even as US President Barack Obama stepped up to Mrs Hillary Clinton's side, criticising FBI director James Comey amid a tightening race in the final days of the presidential campaign.
Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton unleashed top surrogates, including campaigner-in-chief President Barack Obama, to bolster her case in the election's homestretch, as Republican rival Donald Trump deployed wife Melania to soften his image in crucial battleground states.
It has been a provocative six months for Peter Thiel. That is the way he likes it.
Slightly more than a year after entering politics, Mr Ng Chee Meng and Ong Ye Kung will be promoted to full ministers in the latest round of Cabinet changes announced on Friday (Oct 28).
Guo Chuan, an oceangoing Chinese adventurer, set off on a trimaran from San Francisco last week, hoping to establish his latest sailing record with a 20-day sprint to Shanghai.
The European Union's hopes of signing a landmark free trade deal with Canada this week appeared to have evaporated as the Belgian federal government failed to win the consent of French-speaking regional authorities.
Mrs Hillary Clinton and Mr Donald Trump have launched their two-week scramble to the finish line of the US presidential race, with the billionaire Republican dismissing the polls to insist he's "winning" the race.
In a major test of his popularity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the first of a series of rallies yesterday as part of the election campaign in India's most populous state hoping to boost the ruling party's strength in the upper house of Parliament.
When Mr Amit Shah, the president of Mr Narendra Modi's ruling party, meets with the Indian prime minister, he is sometimes asked a question he struggles to answer: "What is behenji thinking?"
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