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As Donald Trump threatened to sue over what he alleged was a “stolen” election, his supporters in some states gathered to demand counts be stopped – while in others they...

A crowd of Donald Trump supporters, some armed with rifles and handguns, gathered outside an election centre in Arizona on Wednesday night after unsubstantiated rumours that votes for the Republican...

Joe Biden declared that his race for the White House was ‘very much alive' last night as a number of key battles appeared to swing his way.

Joe Blewitt had a fitful few hours sleep. At 4am on election night, things weren't looking good for his cousin Joe Biden, so he went to bed.

Joe Biden declared that his race for the White House was ‘very much alive' last night as a number of key battles appeared to swing his way.

Joe Biden declared that his race for the White House was ‘very much alive' last night as a number of key battles appeared to swing his way.

China is suspending entry for most foreign passport holders who reside in Britain, reacting to a new surge of coronavirus cases in the United Kingdom.

A 99-year-old veteran has been surprised with a repaired set of his Second World War medals allowing him to wear them for the first time.

‘America will never be a socialist country!” That was the chant ringing out among Cuban American voters in Miami in the early hours yesterday as it became clear that Hispanic...

Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader has ordered troops into the northern region of Tigray after an attack on a military base – putting the country on a path to possible...

Despite the US president saying he intends to go to the Supreme Court because he wants “all voting to stop”, there are a number of legal hurdles.

Florida was the signal. Democrats went into election night with their eyes fixed on the state, knowing it was likely to be called early given state officials counted postal ballots...

Poland's government is stalling the implementation of a high court ruling that effectively bans abortion amid some of the biggest street protests since the fall of Communism.

WHATEVER way the chips fall when the final votes are counted across the Atlantic, Tuesday's election was a huge victory for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Whether we get...

Hurricane Eta continues to spin across northern Nicaragua after lashing the country's Caribbean coast for much of Tuesday, isolating already remote communities and setting off deadly landslides in two countries...

The United States formally exited the Paris Agreement yesterday fulfilling a promise by President Donald Trump to withdraw the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter from the global pact to fight...

Slights and barbs have marred relations between France's Emmanuel Macron and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan for years, but the row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has dragged them to a...

Swiss authorities confirmed yesterday that two men arrested near Zurich were “obviously friends” of a gunman who killed four people in a shooting rampage in Vienna and said police were...

Holly Niotti didn't quite fit the bill. She was wearing a navy fitted blazer with a form-fitting white top that clung to her tanned skin.

Joe Blewitt had a fitful few hours sleep. At 4am on election night, things weren't looking good for his cousin Joe Biden, so he went to bed.

Sitting down to write a column about yesterday's US election reminds me of that joke about the guy who jumps out of a plane, pulls the parachute ripcord and it...

Joe Biden declared that his race for the White House was ‘very much alive' last night as a number of key battles appeared to swing his way.

Joe Biden is pushing closer to the 270 electoral college votes needed to reach the White House, winning the “blue wall” battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan, and narrowing Donald Trump's...

Joe Biden won the battleground prizes of Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday, reclaiming a key part of the “blue wall” that slipped away from Democrats four years ago and dramatically...

DONALD Trump and Joe Biden are still battling over a few crucial states as the race to the White House reaches its final stages.

Joe Biden won Wisconsin on Wednesday, reclaiming a key part of the “blue wall” that slipped away from Democrats four years ago and narrowing US President Donald Trump's pathway to...

Joe Biden has won Michigan and Wisconsin, pushing him closer to 270 electoral college votes and narrowing US President Donald Trump's possible path to re-election.

Joe Biden has said he believes he will be the next President of the United States when all the votes are counted when addressing the USA this evening.

Joe Biden has said he believes he will be the next President of the United States when all the votes are counted when addressing the USA this evening.

Joe Biden has said he believes he will be the next President of the United States when all the votes are counted when addressing the USA this evening.

Joe Biden has said he believes he will be the next President of the United States when all the votes are counted when addressing the USA this evening.

The Danish government wants to cull all 15 million mink in the country's farms, to minimise the risk of them retransmitting coronavirus to humans.

The Danish government wants to cull all 15 million mink in the country's farms, to minimise the risk of them retransmitting coronavirus to humans.

Denmark will cull its mink population of up to 17 million after a mutation of the coronavirus found in the animals spread to humans, the prime minister said on Wednesday.

Dressed in a black shirt and cap, with an automatic rifle, a handgun and a machete in hand, 20-year-old Kujtim Fejzulai looked into the camera for the last photo he...

Investors in London were optimistic that Joe Biden could take the White House but keep tax cuts with a Republican-controlled Senate, as markets closed on Wednesday.

A giant iceberg the size of Somerset is floating toward the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, raising fears it could indirectly endanger wildlife.

Slovakian intelligence told their Austrian counterparts in July that the gunman who killed four people in a terror attack in Vienna this week had tried to buy ammunition there and...

People's debit card spending has jumped as England prepares for a second national lockdown from Thursday, figures from Britain's biggest building society show.

Scattered protests took place from Washington DC to Washington state in the hours after polls closed in the US elections, but there were no signs of widespread unrest or violence.