It will be the first free elections in a generation that does not include Mugabe, 94, who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years.

Robert Kennedy fused a coalition of the least, the lost and the lonely. After his death, the Republicans adopted a sophisticated political strategy that has served them well ever since.

It will also set up a government-led taskforce to work out how to grapple with the fallout from China's ban on waste imports.

Samantha Bee is under fire for referring to Ivanka Trump with a vulgar word on her TBS comedy show.

With toasts and a dinner of filet mignon, America's top diplomat and North Korea's top negotiator have met for the first time on US soil in a push to determine whether a nuclear summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un can go ahead.

Abortion rights campaigners swallowed what they said were abortion pills outside a Belfast court on Thursday, as pressure grows to ease Northern Ireland's strict ban on terminating pregnancies.

Arkady Babchenko, the dissident Russian journalist who faked his own death in Ukraine's capital, said on Thursday he had to undertake the ruse because he feared he would share the fate of poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

Too many in the international media or among the public lap up its outrageous narrative, possibly being too steeped in anathema towards Israel to delve deeper.

Police will not order offenders to remove their veils, but will fine them and tell them to go home, Denmark's justice minister said.

Accused child sex offender Malka Leifer was 'too mentally shaky' to face extradition proceedings and a psychiatrist has been given more time to assess her.

Nikolas Cruz brags about how the forthcoming massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas is going to make him notorious.

Slovenia holds elections on June 3 and an anti-immigrant former prime minister is leading the polls.

President Donald Trump began a trip to Texas on Thursday by meeting privately with families of some of the 10 people killed in a school shooting this month.

Former Obama aide Ben Rhodes writes of the moments after Trump's election in a new book.

Pope Francis said he is ashamed neither he nor Chile's Catholic leaders ever truly listened to victims as the country's abuse scandal spiralled.

Trade Minister Steven Ciobo's visit to Shanghai was about football, not trade, Beijing says.

The reaction to the Trump administration's surprise move to come into effect at midnight was just as swift.

The UN said it had struck an outline deal with Myanmar aimed at eventually allowing hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh to return safely.

Italy appeared to step back from the brink of a political crisis, with officials agreeing to a deal that averts the threat of fresh elections.

A rape civil lawsuit filed against the NRL star appears headed to a jury trial in California after both parties fail to resolve the matter at mediation talks.

President Donald Trump pardon of a commentator and commuting of a convicted politician prompted critics to accuse him of subverting the rule of law.

Research affirms that the tumultuous 2016 election made Thanksgiving holiday dinner awkward or even excruciating for people in politically divided families.

The US says it will impose tariffs on aluminium and steel imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union.

Malaysian police have detained another 15 suspected militants, including several foreigners, for smuggling firearms and plotting attacks on places of worship.

Malaysian police have detained another 15 suspected militants, including several foreigners, for smuggling firearms and plotting attacks on places of worship.