John Pombe Magufuli has won Tanzania’s presidential election with 58% of the vote, the electoral commission says. His main rival,…
US economic growth slowed sharply in Q3 of 2015. According to the Department of Commerce, the US gross domestic product…
After more than three decades, China has ended its one-child policy, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports. The Chinese couples…
Paul Ryan has been elected as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives. Hesitant to run at first, the…
Raif Badawi has been awarded this year's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The European Parliament supports human rights through…
Women's rights campaigner Bidhya Devi Bhandari has become Nepal’s first female president. Nepal’s parliament has elected Bidhya Devi Bhandari in…
Republican frontrunners Donald Trump and Ben Carson, with no political experience, were under attack from the start of the third…
According to a UN investigator’s report, as many as 50,000 North Koreans have been sent abroad to work in conditions…
Afghans and Pakistanis made homeless by this week's earthquake could die from exposure, aid workers have warned. There is an…
Ben Carson has knocked Donald Trump off top spot in the Republican presidential campaign. The retired neurosurgeon takes a narrow…