BARACK OBAMA AWARDS 'BROTHER' JOE BIDEN THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM

Barack Obama awards 'brother' Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom - full transcript... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP'S BIG PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT

President-elect Trump wants to bring this success to all Americans... READ MORE›

JOE BIDEN TELLS DONALD TRUMP TO 'GROW UP AND BE AN ADULT' OVER TWITTER ATTACKS

Joe Biden has told Donald Trump that he needs to grow up and start acting like an adult ... READ MORE›

VP BIDEN TO PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP: 'GROW UP'

The vice president told PBS NewsHour in an interview that it's time for Trump to be an adult. Biden said to Trump You're president... READ MORE›

'GROW UP DONALD, TIME TO BE AN ADULT, YOU'RE PRESIDENT'

Joe Biden tells Donald Trump 'Grow up Donald, time to be an adult, you're president'... READ MORE›

RECORD NUMBER OF ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTERS DEFECT AS DONALD TRUMP IS OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED AS 45TH PRESIDENT

With all states voting, Mr Trump finished with 304 votes and Clinton had 227... READ MORE›

2 'FAITHLESS ELECTORS' VOTED AGAINST TRUMP, AT LEAST 4 VOTED AGAINST HILLARY CLINTON

Some Democrats have argued that the Electoral College is undemocratic because it gives more weight to less populated states... READ MORE›

THE SPECTACULAR RISE AND FALL OF HOLLANDE'S SOCIALIST PARTY

The spectacular rise and fall of Hollande's Socialist Party... READ MORE›

FRENCH EX-MINISTER WHO FOUGHT TAX EVASION JAILED FOR TAX FRAUD

A Paris court found Jerome Cahuzac, a cosmetic surgeon by trade who was made budget minister when Hollande won power in 2012, guilty of tax fraud and money laundering... READ MORE›

VERDICT DUE FOR DISGRACED FRENCH MINISTER CAHUZAC

Hollande's former budget minister, Jerome Cahuzac, is charged with tax fraud and money laundering for allegedly hiding his wealth in tax havens around the world... READ MORE›

WHO WILL BE FRANCE'S PRESIDENT IN 2017?

Francois Fillon, The Republicans Mr Fillon, 62, was very much overshadowed by then-President Nicolas Sarkozy when he served as prime minister in 2007-2012... READ MORE›

'VALLS IS HOLLANDE'S LOOKALIKE: ENOUGH OF BEING SLAVES OF BRUSSELS'

President Francois Hollande named Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to head the government until the general election next May... READ MORE›

BERNARD CAZENEUVE NAMED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE AFTER MANUEL VALLS STEPS DOWN TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT

Bernard Cazeneuve named as new Prime Minister of France after Manuel Valls steps down to run for President... READ MORE›

MAN ON A MISSION TO SAVE THE FRENCH LEFT

PARIS - Prime Minister Manuel Valls has a reputation for never ducking a fight... READ MORE›

FRENCH PAPERS REACT AFTER HOLLANDE BOWS OUT

But while left-wing Liberation praises his self-sacrifice for the greater good, centre-right Le Figaro lambasts the president's announcement as a sad epilogue to a sorry term ... READ MORE›

PRESIDENT HOLLANDE WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION AFTER ONE TERM IN OFFICE

President Francois Hollande of France has announced that he will not be seeking a second term in office... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP WILL BE PRESIDENT THANKS TO 80,000 PEOPLE IN THREE STATES

Those three wins gave him 46 electoral votes if Clinton had done one point better in each state, she'd have won the electoral vote, too... READ MORE›

LAGGING IN POLLS FRENCH PRESIDENT WONT RUN AGAIN

Actually, though, unemployment has not budged significantly during Mr. Hollande's term... READ MORE›

FIDEL CASTRO HONOURED BY THOUSANDS IN HAVANA; OBAMA ABSENT AS WORLD LEADERS JOIN IN

Castro died on Friday at age 90, a decade after ceding control to his younger brother Raul Castro, 85... READ MORE›

WORLD LEADERS PAY TRIBUTE TO FORMER CUBAN PRESIDENT

The incumbent Cuban President Raul Castro announced his brother's death at 10 29pm on state television on Friday... READ MORE›

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE MEMBERS FIGHTING TO STOP DONALD TRUMP BECOMING PRESIDENT

The Electoral College voters fighting to stop Donald Trump... READ MORE›

AS PRESIDENT-ELECT MAKES WHITE HOUSE PREPARATIONS, 'NEVER TRUMPERS' SAY MAYBE

During the course of the 2016 campaign, Republican Christine Todd Whitman compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. She warned that a Trump administration wou... READ MORE›

FRANCOIS HOLLANDE SEEKS EXTENSION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY IN FRANCE

President proposes prolonging emergency measures - in place since Paris attacks - to cover presidential election... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP RHETORIC EMBOLDENS RUSSIA, VLADIMIR PUTIN

Donald Trump rhetoric emboldens Russia, Vladimir Putin Vice-President Joe Biden... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP HAS RESPONDED TO JOE BIDEN'S THREATS ABOUT GETTING IN A FIST-FIGHT

Donald Trump has responded to Joe Biden's threats about getting in a fist-fight... READ MORE›

WILL HOLLANDE BE ABLE TO RUN?

2017 French presidential election Will Hollande be able to run?... READ MORE›

GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT RESIGNS AMID SCANDAL

And the candidates for president were fielded in a world fundamentally different from the one that Guatemalans woke to on Thursday... READ MORE›

FRANCOIS HOLLANDE: PARIS ATTACKS WERE ISIL 'ACT OF WAR'

In Belgium, the justice minister said a number of arrests have been made in Brussels related to the Paris attacks, the Associated Press reports... READ MORE›

HOLLANDES 10000-A-MONTH STYLIST IS REVEALED

It is unclear whether Mr. Hollande knew how much the hairdresser is paid... READ MORE›

VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL HEAD PURSUIT OF CANCER CURE

Biden has met over the past few months with nearly 200 of the world's top cancer physicians, researchers and philanthropists... READ MORE›

THE PRESIDENT PARIS GUNMEN SINGLE OUT FRANOIS HOLLANDE AND LEAVE HIM WITH FEW PALATABLE RESPONSES

Mr. Hollande faced a similar dilemma in January after the attacks on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery store... READ MORE›

FRENCH PRESIDENT CRITICIZES TRUMPS EXCESSES

The comments from Mr. Trump have prompted widespread condemnation in the United States and have led several prominent Republicans to distance themselves from the party's nominee... READ MORE›

LET THEM EAT CAKE? 'CALLING FRENCH POOR 'TOOTHLESS LOT' SHOWS TRUE COLORS OF FRANCOIS HOLLANDE'

And this has come back again and it shows the great despise that this man actually has for the people of France... READ MORE›

OBAMA CRITICISED BY TURKISH PRESIDENT AFTER 'TELLING' SILENCE ON MUSLIM DEATHS

Chapel Hill shooting Obama criticised by Turkish President after 'telling' silence on Muslim deaths... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 10 DEAD IN FRENCH RIVIERA STORMS

Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet earlier said the death toll had reached 13 including people trapped in a parking lot a campsite and a retirement home... READ MORE›

WILL HILLARY CLINTON DROP OUT? HOW JOE BIDEN COULD BECOME THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT

The foregoing notwithstanding, a special meeting to fill a vacancy on the National ticket shall be held on the call of the Chairperson... READ MORE›

FRANCE HONORS AMERICANS, BRITON WHO DISARMED TRAIN GUNMAN

PARIS French President Francois Hollande on Monday awarded France's highest honor the Legion d honneur to three U.S... READ MORE›

HOLLANDE TO D.C., MOSCOW FOR ISIS TALKS

France's President Francois Hollande will travel to both Washington and Moscow next week to coordinate the anti-ISIS fight... READ MORE›

FRANCE'S HOLLANDE SAYS THE UNITED STATES' RESPONSE TO 9/11 MADE THE WORLD LESS SAFE

France has suffered a number of terror attacks over recent years, including a series of attacks in Paris last November that left 130 dead... READ MORE›

J CREW VICE PRESIDENT 'FIRED FOR MOCKING STAFF ONLINE' HOURS AFTER THEY WERE MADE REDUNDANT

A senior executive at the US fashion brand J Crew has reportedly been fired after mocking staff redundancies in social media posts... READ MORE›

The work of the council will be given to five commissioners appointed by the British government, which will call early elections in Rotherham next year to choose a new council... READ MORE›

PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS DENOUNCES ISRAEL'S CLOSURE OF EAST JERUSALEM MOSQUE AS TANTAMOUNT TO 'A DECLARATION OF WAR'

Palestinian president mahmoud abbas denounces israel's closure of east jerusalem mosque as tantamount to a declaration of war... READ MORE›

WASHINGTON IS NEXT ON HOLLANDES TOUR TO PRESS FOR ANTI-ISIS COALITION

After seeing President Obama on Tuesday, Mr. Hollande will be off to Moscow... READ MORE›

JIMMY MORALES, COMIC AND SELF-STYLED OUTSIDER, WINS GUATEMALA PRESIDENCY

We recognise Jimmy Morales' triumph and we wish him success, Torres said... READ MORE›

GUATEMALAN CONGRESS CLEARS WAY FOR ARREST OF PRESIDENT IN CORRUPTION CASE

More than 80 percent of the legislators voted to remove the president's shield from prosecution easily clearing the two-thirds majority needed and the rest abstained... READ MORE›

CAMERON OFFERS FRANCE USE OF RAF BASE FOR ISIS RAIDS

British prime minister says French aircraft can use Cyprus base, during talks with Hollande after Paris attacks... READ MORE›

AIRBUS A320 SENT OUT NO DISTRESS SIGNAL BEFORE FLYING HEADLONG INTO THE SIDE OF A 9,000FT SNOW-COVERED PEAK

The Germanwings Airbus A320 sent out no distress signal before flying headlong into the side of a 9,000ft 2,743m snow-covered peak in the French Alps... READ MORE›

FRANCES SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT SURVIVES VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE

The left chose Hollande, and it has been disappointed, Mr. Paul said... READ MORE›

FIREFIGHTERS UNION ABANDONS PLANS TO ENDORSE CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON The International Association of Fire Fighters a politically powerful labor union has abandoned its initial plans to endorse Democrat Hillary Clinton for U.S... READ MORE›

NEARLY 90 PERCENT OF THE FRENCH NOW DISAPPROVE OF THEIR PRESIDENT

French President Francois Hollande waits to welcome Austria's Chancellor Christian Kern during the Western Balkans summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July 4, 2016... READ MORE›

LETTER FROM AMERICA THE RISKS OF BECOMING A TRUMP RUNNING MATE

He has neither endorsed a presidential candidate nor joined stop Trump efforts a consummate loyalist, Mr. Cole vows to back any Republican nominee... READ MORE›

HOLLANDE TO PRESS OBAMA ON THE WAR AGAINST ISIS A?? AND RUSSIA'S ROLE IN IT

The French ambassador said he thought President Hollande would bring a message of 'urgency' from Paris, reported one diplomat present at the meeting... READ MORE›

FRANCE DROPS PLAN TO STRIP ATTACKERS OF CITIZENSHIP

Hollande's plan to insert into the constitution the rules for a state of emergency was also abandoned... READ MORE›

PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS SAYS PALESTINE NO LONGER BOUND BY AGREEMENTS WITH ISRAEL

The agreements known as the Oslo Accords were signed in 1995 by Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Mr Abbas who was then Palestine Liberation Organisation negotiator... READ MORE›

ONE DECAPITATED IN SUSPECTED TERRORIST ATTACK ON U.S. FACTORY IN FRANCE

Gas company in southeast France on Friday police sources and French media said after an assailant rammed a car into the premises triggering an explosion... READ MORE›

ANGRY UKRAINIANS BURN EFFIGY OF RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN

Angry Ukrainians burn effigy of Russian president Vladimir Putin... READ MORE›

TRUMP LEFT A TOUGH CHOICE BY OBAMA SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN HACKING

Sanctions against the Russian intelligence services are a good initial step, however late in coming... READ MORE›

WHAT WILL THE US DO TO RUSSIA? WITH PUTIN HACK, CYBERATTACK ON THE ELECTION AND DNC, OBAMA VOWS 'ACTION'

And most certainly he likes President-elect Trump's views on Russia... READ MORE›

BARACK OBAMA VOWS TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST ALLEGED RUSSIAN HACKING OF US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

President Barack Obama has vowed to take action against Russia for its apparent interference in the US presidential election... READ MORE›

FRENCH LEFT 'FACING COLLECTIVE SUICIDE' IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN WAKE OF CENTRE-RIGHT PRIMARY

The 54-year-old prime minister said he stood a better chance given Mr Hollande's disastrous approval ratings - the lowest for any French president in modern history... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP ACCUSES HILLARY CLINTON OF 'PLAYING CHICKEN' WITH RUSSIA'S NUCLEAR ARSENAL

Speaking about Russian President Vladimir Putin during the third Presidential debate, Mr Trump said He has no respect for her... READ MORE›

SYRIA CRISIS: US WEIGHS TOUGHER RESPONSE TO RUSSIA

It was the stiffest U.S. warning to the Russians since the Sept. 19 collapse of a truce they jointly brokered... READ MORE›

US AND RUSSIA MAY COORDINATE ATTACKS IN SYRIA CONFLICT

And Russia and the United States will target areas where they both agree Nusra or Islamic State fighters are present... READ MORE›

BARACK OBAMA SAYS HE DOES NOT TRUST RUSSIA OVER PEACE IN SYRIA

He accused Russia of failing to take the necessary steps to do that, adding that deteriorating conditions make it imperative for Russia to show it is serious now... READ MORE›

U.S. MIGHT NOT DEFEND NATO MEMBERS IF RUSSIA ATTACKS, TRUMP SAYS

Donald Trump apparently doesn't even believe in the free world, Clinton senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement shortly after the interview was published... READ MORE›

WORLD LEADERS REACT WITH HORROR TO ATTACK

SPAIN Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said he called his counterparts in France to express his condolences... READ MORE›

OBAMA CONCERNED OVER LONGER TERM GLOBAL GROWTH AFTER BREXIT

At a time when global growth rates were weak already, this doesn't help... READ MORE›

OBAMA URGES TURKEY TO REDUCE TENSIONS WITH RUSSIA

In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said similar ties between Russia and Turkey had failed... READ MORE›