Trump denied the allegations and said, "I've never met this person in my life".

Trump's bombing backdown disappointed hawkish Republicans. But it relieved Americans who do not want to see US-Iranian tensions morph into all-out war.

The Duke of Sussex is taking a break from daddy duty for the night to throw out the first pitch at the opening game of the Major League Baseball London Series at the city's former Olympic stadium on June 29.

A famished polar bear picked up this week after it wandered lost into a northern Russian city hundreds of kilometres from its Arctic habitat was taken on Friday to a zoo in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk for treatment.

The woman accused of child sex abuse while a teacher in Melbourne has had her case delayed again.

A Myanmar National Airlines plane made an emergency landing at Mandalay International Airport using only its rear wheels after the front landing gear failed to deploy.

Guterres made the comments after arriving in New Zealand, where he spoke to media alongside Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in Auckland.

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Three gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Pakistan's southwestern port city of Gwadar on Saturday, killing at least one guard and battling security forces inside, officials and the army said.

The Christian Democrats appear to be in no rush to change leaders despite their falling popularity.

A number of polls show Nigel Farage's new party is surging, while the Prime Minister's party has slumped.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has overcome the scandals that beset predecessor Jacob Zuma to win a majority of the popular vote.

Critics of the former vice-president say Biden is too much a creature of Washington's past to adequately deal with new challenges.

In one of the largest anti-Jewish street demonstrations in years, the far right have claimed it is not fair to ask Poland to compensate Holocaust victims.

Beijing security firm Knownsec Information Technology reported on Monday that Chinese organisations suffered an average of 800 million cyber attacks daily in 2018.