A pro-democracy protest leader was leading on Monday in the Hong Kong Legislative Council elections, according to preliminary results. ...
Regional elections in the Germany's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state resulted in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) losing for the first time to the rightwing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD). ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday told his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-hye that Beijing opposes the US deployment of THAAD anti-missile system in Seoul. ...
Typhoon Namtheun made landfall near Japan's Nagasaki city on Monday, with warnings in place for strong gusts, landslides and possible flooding, the weather agency said. ...
A United States spy agency on Sunday apologised for a sarcastic tweet aimed at China over its treatment of American reporters who had travelled with President Barack Obama to cover the G20 meeting there....
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was fighting back in polls and set to spend millions on TV advertisements as the US presidential election unofficially kicked off in force on Monday. ...
President Barack Obama attributes the rise of Donald Trump to his ability to "appeal to a certain group of folks who feel left out" economically and culturally....
Indian origin British Labour MP Keith Vaz stepped down as chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee following allegations he paid two male prostitutes for sex and offered to cover the cost of Class A drugs at his London flat....
A court on Sunday sent sacked AAP minister Sandeep Kumar to one-day police custody, a day after he was arrested on charges of rape followed by the complaint of a woman who figured in a video with him in objectionable position. ...
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday ordered a probe into alleged demand of money by officials for conducting post-mortem of a flood victim, who died of diarrhoea, officials said. ...
