President Donald Trump's lead lawyer for the federal special counsel probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election resigned on Thursday, the New York Times reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.

The US House Intelligence Committee voted on Thursday to release a Republican report on the panel's Russia probe, the leader of the investigation said, a decision that formally ends the panel's examination of Russia and the 2016 US election.

Britain's Prince Harry and his American fiancee Meghan Markle have invited 600 guests to their wedding in May, his office said on Thursday.

At least four people were killed when an explosion went off outside a busy hotel in Somalia's capital on Thursday, followed by gunfire, police and rescue services said.

British police said a suspicious package had been found near the London headquarters of Cambridge Analytica on Thursday, prompting police to close nearby roads and evacuate the building.

No one doubts that Cambridge Analytica's campaign was unethical and perhaps even illegal, but there is no evidence yet that it was effective.

The prosecution argued the Australian should serve more than a year in jail.

As a critic of China is turned around at Shanghai airport and sent back to Australia, 30 scholars argue the influence debate has gone too far.

The Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last month will require students to wear ID badges and carry only clear backpacks.

Railway workers, teachers, students and air traffic controllers have gone on strike in protest at President Emmanuel Macron's economic and social policies.

Beijing says it will 'play tough' and 'last longer' than the US after president responds to 'tremendous intellectual property theft' by imposing tariffs.

In an echo of the Sovet-era Young Pioneers a new organisation called the Youth Army has, in less than two years, grown to a membership of 190,000 children.

Australia's relief at being exempted from US steel tariffs is short-lived as Donald Trump imposes new quotas.

'Gun! Gun! Gun!' police cry before killing young black man. There was no gun, just a phone. 'C'mon, now," says his grandmother. 'They didn't have to do that.'

A Fly Jamaica Airways crew member is accused of trying to smuggle nearly four kilograms of cocaine through John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

Donald Trump has picked John Bolton, a hawk who has advocated using military force against Iran and North Korea, as his new national security adviser.

President Xi Jinping will have to consider retaliatory action that could send a shudder through the global economy and complicate his efforts to sustain China's rapid growth.

Two men in their 70s go public about wanting to bash the other. One is the President of the US, the other the former vice-president. It's not very dignified.

The 92-year-old former Malaysian PM is on the campaign trail after joining forces with a bitter rival to try to blast prime minister Najib Razak out of office.

New Zealand's Helen Clark was a strong female leader before it was cool to be a strong female leader.

Meghan Markle marked Friday's first official joint visit to Northern Ireland with Prince Harry by looking the very definition of elegant. With this trip, she's now been introduced to all major parts of the United Kingdom, including England, Scotland and Wales.

Two people were killed when a gunman screaming "Allahu Akbar" shot at police and took hostages in a supermarket in southern France

Karen McDougal claims she had a 10-month affair with Donald Trump, despite a rocky start when he tried to hand her cash after they were 'intimate'.

The stand-off between the US and China on trade could damage Australia seriously if it affects global economic growth.

Former US president Barack Obama has touched down in Australia for a private speaking engagement.