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Defending his recent phone call with Taiwan's president, Mr. Trump said the United States was not bound by the One China policy, a 44-year diplomatic understanding.

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President-elect Donald Trump, after rejecting an intelligence assessment that concluded Russia worked to try to get him elected, says he gets intelligence briefings "when I need it" and defended his apparent choice of an...

Songwriter sends a speech and Patti Smith to the Nobel awards dinner in Sweden rather than attending in person Bob Dylan admitted he was stunned and surprised when he was told he had won a Nobel prize because he had neve...

A transition team statement cast doubt on the credibility of U.S. intelligence.

Christine Lagarde is taking time off her day job solving the world's financial crises to face trial Monday, accused of negligence after the French state handed $425 million to a …

Crewe director Dario Gradi is suspended by the FA pending an investigation into claims he "smoothed over" a complaint of sexual assault in the 1970s.

Voters in Kyrgyzstan are casting ballots in a constitutional referendum that includes amendments that boost the power of prime minister -- something opposition groups have criticized in the ex-Soviet Central …

Activists display almost 4,000 notes from backers on the side of the Newseum, an institution celebrating free speech near the White House Edward Snowden has been the subject of several high-profile appeals this year, cal...

From a homemade birthday cake to wild pig in the Yucatán, the big names in food, including Nigella Lawson, René Redzepi and Nadiya Hussain, recall their favourite eating experiences of 2016 Fat chips with feta at Gazi,...

Now we know: Russia was apparently trying very hard to get Donald Trump elected, and the two parties reacted very differently to that fact.

Jihadis enter ancient city, where they wreaked destruction last year, after earlier report that airstrikes had repelled them Isis have regained control of the city of Palmyra in Syria, nine months after it was driven out...

22 states face winter weather alerts of snow or ice as temperatures dip below freezing in different parts of the country.

A suicide bomber on Saturday blew himself up inside an army base in the southern city of Aden, killing 45 soldiers and wounding another 50, security officials said.

Tokyo held a groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday for a $1.5 billion National Stadium to host the 2020 Olympic Games.

As a newlywed in the 1980s, a Japanese martial arts master named Ichiro expected only good things. He and his wife, Tomoko, lived among the cherry blossoms in Saitima, a prosperous city just outside of Tokyo. The couple ...

Children's drawings depicting extreme violence and distrust of government forces reveal the impact of narco-culture.

Louisiana State Treasurer John Kennedy won his state's runoff Senate election Saturday, cementing the Republican Party's 52-seat Senate majority. Democrats hoped challenger Foster Campbell would pull off an upset victory...

Syria's state news agency says another 4,000 people have fled the northern city of Aleppo, where government forces are closing in on a rapidly shrinking rebel enclave. State TV on …

Amateur footage reveals the anger and devastation inside a church in the Egyptian capital Cairo, after a bomb blast left at least 25 people dead.

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Metal girders and the roof of a crowded church collapsed onto worshippers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll likely to rise, a hospital director said Sunday. Mortuaries in th...