The phrase was too toxic even for Nikita Khrushchev, a war-hardened veteran communist not known for squeamishness. As leader of the Soviet Union, he demanded an end to the use of the term “enemy of the people” because “it eliminated the possibility of any kind of ideological fight.”
Dozens of former Turkish soldiers were brought to trial on Monday on charges of trying to kill President Recep Tayyip Erdoganduring a coup attempt in July, the latest in a series of trials in the plot.
Russia has secretly deployed a new cruise missile that American officials say violates a landmark arms control treaty, posing a major test for President Trump as his administration is facing a crisis over its ties to Moscow.
An avalanche in the French Alps killed four snowboarders, including an instructor, on Monday morning.
Mr Michael Flynn, the national security adviser of the United States, resigned on Monday night (Feb 13) after it was revealed that he had misled Vice-President Mike Pence and other top White House officials about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the US, according to a source close to the Trump administration.
A suspect wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of an Orlando, Florida, police officer was arrested Tuesday (Jan 17) after eluding the authorities for more than a week.
At the stroke of 12:01pm on Friday, as soon as Donald Trump is sworn in as president and Barack Obama relinquishes the office, dozens of federal workers will swing into action at the White House to replace one commander in chief's creature comforts - favourite snacks, clothes, toiletries, artwork and furniture - with those of his successor.
President Obama delivered a nostalgic and hopeful farewell address to the nation on Tuesday evening, but warned both the divided country he led for eight years and his successor not to shrink from the challenges of economic inequality, racial strife, political isolation and voter apathy that still threaten its ideal of democracy.
The Second Avenue subway opened on Sunday, with thousands of riders flooding into its polished stations to witness a piece of history nearly a century in the making.
US President-elect Donald Trump, expressing lingering scepticism about intelligence assessments of Russian interference in the election, has said he knew "things that other people don't know" about the hacking, and that the information will be revealed "on Tuesday or Wednesday".
Russian officials for the first time have admitted to mass doping in the country's sports system but dismissed suggestions that the "institutional conspiracy" was state-sponsored, the New York Times reported.
Foreign governments concerned about climate change may soon be spending more time dealing with Sacramento, California, than Washington.
President-elect Donald Trump has named Thomas P. Bossert, a top national security aide under President George W. Bush, to be his homeland security adviser, the Trump transition team announced Tuesday (Dec 27).
Some time around August 2013, hackers penetrated the e-mail system of Yahoo, one of the world's largest and oldest providers of free e-mail services. The attackers quietly scooped up the records of more than one billion users, including names, birth dates, phone numbers and passwords that were encrypted with an easily broken form of security.
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.
US President-elect Donald Trump met on Monday (Nov 29) with David H. Petraeus, the highly decorated but scandal-scarred former military commander, who has emerged as a new contender for secretary of state after days of bitter internal feuding over who will get the coveted post.
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