"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.

Panic erupted in north-eastern Nigeria on Sunday as Boko Haram fighters poured into two strategic towns in pre-dawn strikes that escalated into battles with Nigerian army troops.

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.

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.

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

The central promise of the Trump administration has failed and the central premise of the administration has been discredited.

It was a sinister moment in a campaign already replete with ugliness. And it put the spotlight back on Donald Trump.

A hidden announcement from the State Department about consequences for foreigners “complicit in censoring Americans” has sparked a new level of global interference not seen from America since the end of the Cold War. Peter Hartcher asks is this the beginning of a new level of interference?

The body of an Iraq War veteran suspected of fatally shooting and stabbing six family members in Pennsylvania was discovered on Tuesday following a two-day manhunt, a district attorney said.

The US president has announced a total ban on citizens from a dozen countries entering the US and a partial ban on several more nations, a move that partly revives controversial travel restrictions from his first term.

On the 10th anniversary of the Boxing Day Tsunami that killed 226,000 people in 13 countries LINDSAY MURDOCH visits Khao Lak, the worst hit beach in Thailand.

China's President Xi Jinping has visited a drizzly Macau for the 15th anniversary of the gambling hub's return to Chinese rule, with onlookers barred from using umbrellas – the emblem of democracy protests in nearby Hong Kong.

A UK theatre has been fined for safety breaches a week after it was revealed an Australian woman received a $7m payout after being paralysed in a fall.

South Korean and Japanese jets have joined exercises with two US B-1B bombers above and near the Korean Peninsula.

Asher Keddie, Germaine Greer and Alan Jones are among those who have thrown their support behind two Australians facing the death penalty in Indonesia, in a powerful star-filled video calling for mercy.

It was a DC lawyer's dream come true, a Hollywood premiere for a movie based on the novel he wrote in his spare time. But when The Revenant, the highly anticipated new film adapted from Michael Punke's book, had its big opening in L.A. - an evening featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Oscar-wi...

Defeating IS and retaining influence in the Middle East is more important to Russia than in propping up dictator, analysts say.

A United States citizen who attacked US policies and its human rights record during a press conference in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang is mentally ill, his mother says.

Istanbul's international airport has reopened with Turkish Airlines resuming flights on Saturday following a failed coup attempt.

Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge and support of an Indonesian army extermination campaign in the 1960s.