"If fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in," said Clinton on Tuesday.

Demonstrators calling for a military coup occupied Brazil's lower house of Congress on Wednesday, as anti-austerity protests continue in Rio.

As Russia’s propaganda machine jolts back to life, flooding the Western world with curated hoo-hah, a popular notion in Russia is that these days everything is PR - the same cynical idea can be described as a symptom of the post-Great Recession West.

After an election riven with religious tension, Pence struck an odd note by comparing Indonesia to the US.

It is not just the clinical detail of the brutality of American agents that makes the US Senate report on the CIA's torture shocking, it is how chaotic and in the end, pointless, the entire program proved to be.