Defending champion Cleveland and powerhouse Golden State enter Sunday's start of the playoff semi-finals pushing toward an unprecedented third consecutive NBA Finals showdown, adding more sparks to...
North Korea on Sunday test-fired a ballistic missile, the Seoul army said, the first since South Korea's new president took power. The missile was launched from the country's northwestern city of...
Isolated and agitated, Trump rattles White House from within A buoyant President Donald Trump reemerged into public for the first time in more than a week on Friday, offering few signs of the malaise...
China opens on Sunday a summit to promote its massive global trade infrastructure project, highlighting Beijing's ambitions to spearhead a new era of globalisation as Washington shifts toward...
President Donald Trump's shock dismissal of FBI chief James Comey this week not only unleashed a political firestorm in Washington -- it also revealed the discordant sounds emanating from his...
US President Donald Trump says he could announce a replacement for fired FBI Director James Comey by late next week. He told reporters it was “possible” he could name someone by Friday, before he...
President Donald Trump said Saturday he would act quickly to appoint a new FBI director following his controversial dismissal earlier this week of James Comey -- a move that was still reverberating...
President Donald Trump has said he would be "honoured" to meet Kim Jong-un if conditions were right North Korea has said it will hold talks with the US "if the conditions were right", South Korean...
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank voted Saturday in municipal elections that underscored deep rifts between president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party and Islamist rival Hamas which runs the Gaza...
John Wall nailed a clutch three pointer with three seconds remaining to lift the Washington Wizards to a 92-91 win over the Boston Celtics in game six of their NBA playoff series. Wall's late...
Michelle Obama has launched a fierce defence of the healthy eating initiatives she championed as first lady. At a public health summit in Washington, she hit back after the Trump administration...
Criminal charges were filed Friday against a US passenger train driver for the 2015 derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people and injured more than 200. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh...
Another self-inflicted crisis has left Donald Trump's critics outraged and some of his Republican allies dismayed, but a bedrock of support for the billionaire US leader means the political endgame...
Chelsea Manning says she can't wait to breathe the spring air and go swimming when she is released from a Kansas prison next week. The transgender army soldier, who was jailed for one of the largest...
The shock dismissal of the FBI chief James Comey has triggered days of turmoil in Washington and thrust the spotlight back onto allegations that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with a Russian bid to...
North Korea on Friday accused the United States of using threats and intimidation to force countries at the United Nations to implement sanctions, describing the drive as "hysteric madness." The...
President Donald Trump warned sacked FBI chief James Comey Friday not to "leak" details of their conversations to the media, suggesting they may have been taped. In a series of early morning tweets,...
North Korea on Friday demanded the extradition of the South's spy chief, a Chinese businessman, and unnamed US CIA agents over a supposed conspiracy to assassinate leader Kim Jong-Un. Last week...
The EU is seeking urgent talks with Washington over a possible US ban on carry-on computers on European flights to the United States, an EU source said Friday. The European Union has not yet received...
The San Antonio Spurs humiliated the Houston Rockets with a 114-75 game six closeout win that brought James Harden's MVP-worthy season to a startling halt. LaMarcus Aldridge paced the offense by...
