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When it emerged that Donald Trump and the Taiwanese president, Tsai Ing-wen, had spoken on the phone – the first communication between top officials from the two governments in almost 40 years – the world was puzzled, Googling away as to whether Taiwan was even a country.

“That’s the way they see the choice”, he said of the opposition forces.

Joe Root demonstrated on the fourth evening at the Wankhede Stadium that he too could tame the turning surface – against Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja too, rather than England’s less formidable spinners – in an innings of 77 which raised hopes, briefly, that the...

Syrian government forces and their allies are continuing their offensive against rebel-held parts of eastern Aleppo.

President-elect Donald Trump has chose to postpone until January a press conference this week to announce his plan for dealing with potential conflicts stemming from his businesses, two transition sources confirm to CNN.

Conway specifically mentioned a Washington Post story stating that intelligence agencies have identified individuals connected to the Russian government who worked to hurt Clinton’s chances of winning the presidency.

Pro-government troops are said to have taken full control of those neighbourhoods rebel fighters withdrew from and are closing in on their last few holdouts.

The Trump camp insists Trump has been fully briefed on the implications of a change in Taiwan policy, but his tweets suggest the only part of the briefing he really heard was, “The Chinese leaders don’t want you to talk to Tsai Ing-wen”. But we should not assume...

Numerous mourners were poor women who had travelled long distances in intense heat to pay final respects to the revered former chief minister of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, who died late on Monday aged 68. While Naidu met the hospital authorities and spoke to senior leaders...

British Aerospace, which is now known as BAE Systems, says that the first 146-model plane took off in 1981 and that just under 400 – including the successor Avro RJ – were built in total in the United Kingdom through 2003. Chapecoense were the 21st biggest club in...

Who’s who in Donald Trump’s administration? .

On Friday, the Post cited USA officials as saying that intelligence agencies have identified individuals connected to the Russian government who gave Wikileaks thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta.

But doubts have emerged over how effective the cuts will be at rebalancing the market with some analysts skeptical on the ability of major producers to adhere to output limits.

In his decision, federal judge Paul Diamond said Stein’s allegation of possible election tampering “borders on the irrational”.

Bill English has been sworn in as New Zealand’s prime minister following the resignation of John Key last week.