U.S. stocks extended all-time highs as investors reignited reflation trades following the promise of details from the Trump administration on cutting taxes.

Three judges unanimously agreed crucial points to reject President Trump's immigration appeal.

Donald Trump is changing the presidency more than the presidency is changing Donald Trump.

Barack Obama may have left politics behind for the time being - but his social media-famous photographer is not staying silent.

Fresh insight into secretive kingdom reveals the extent of the regime's use of kids as slaves. Here, two teens tell their stories.

Stun grenades outside Parliament and brawls between opposition lawmakers and security personnel marred South African President Jacob Zuma's speech.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has refused to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travellers from seven predominantly Muslim nations.

President Trump claimed that a senator had misrepresented comments by Judge Neil Gorsuch, who called Trump's attacks on the federal judiciary "demoralizing."

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has set up a 24-hour task force to oversee the transition of US President Donald Trump.

Former US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle clearly aren't missing the White House too much.

COMMENT: Tough rhetoric on terrorists is nothing new in a US leader but straight-talking style is.

Syrian President al-Assad's Govt has secretly executed between 5000 and 13,000 people in just one prison as part of its campaign to eliminate opposition.

COMMENT: Our political elites occupy the headlines, but let's our make hospitality great again, let's be radical in our hospitality toward one another.

When it comes to President Donald Trump's refugee ban, the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit could prove just as powerful.

The saga so far encourages hope that the constitutional checks on power in the US will be capable of restraining a rogue President.

Bitter exchanges as Cory Bernardi resigns from Liberal Party and tells Government not to rely on his support.

Comment: Trump claims California is 'out of control' and will action a defunding of the state if he has to.

Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on an embarrassing report which describes him ranting in his bathrobe inside the White House.

COMMENT: Social media and internet have helped to foster age-old problem.

New Zealand marks its 177th birthday with a thriving economy and has no need of despondency for the future of world trade. It just has more work to do.

The march began at Trump Plaza, a high-rise apartment building President Donald Trump hasn't owned since 1991. It still has the name.

The US Department of Homeland Security complied with a judge's orders yesterday and stopped enforcing Donald Trump's controversial entry ban.

France's presidential election campaign went into overdrive with two key candidates laying out radically different plans to overthrow the established order.

Years ago, Donald Trump decided to express his opinions about a topless, sunbathing Kate Middleton. Now it's awkward.

If the Red Pill Trump is the reality - God help us - he's is probably acting on instinct rather than political advice.

The White House has described a judge's attempt to undermine President Donald Trump's travel ban as "outrageous" as the situation escalates in the US.

These days, everything is political: even the ride-sharing app you use.

As Donald Trump's administration prepares to renegotiate NAFTA, the scope for the potential impact emerges.

In its 75-page plan for Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May's government said on Thursday that it will prepare contingency measures to avert economic chaos if the discussions collapsed.

Comment: Is what we're witnessing in the US a slow-motion downhill slide into a coup, asks Charles Firth.