Dallas Police chief has stepped into America's fierce gun rights debate, officially expressing what many have been thinking.

Hillary Clinton may be ahead in the race for the White House. But she is still seen by many Americans as a distasteful choice.

US President Barack Obama has revealed his experiences of racism as protesters condemn the killings of unarmed black men by police.

Hong Kong property tycoon Thomas Kwok and the government's former deputy leader Rafael Hui have been found guilty of corruption in a blockbuster trial that shocked a city known for clean governance.

The head of Russia's influential Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, said on Sunday cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were "childish" compared to offences it had dished out to Christians.