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Obama is fully entitled to name a replacement – and the Senate is fully entitled to hold hearings, argue over the nomination and accept or reject it. The senators’ constitutional responsibility is to “advise and consent”, and that task includes the right...

The United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki Moon, has advised European countries against increasing borders in Balkan and Austria to migrants and refugees moving toward Europe. Police should not use force unless strictly necessary, and should exercise restraint if the lawful...

To try to stop the rout, China’s central bank cut its deposit reserve requirement ratio by 50 basis points, to 17 percent, in an effort to free up about $100 billion in new credit for the world’s second-largest economy. Injections of money liquidity into the economy...

In short, Super Tuesday, which covers a broad swath of the United States – and politics of all persuasions – is a potent realisation of both the economic staying power and organisational skills of all of the candidates.

Following the auto bomb attack on a military convoy in Ankara this week which left 28 people dead, a breakaway faction of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the attack, and Turkey has vowed to intensify its fight against the Kurds both at home...

The draft text would require countries to take the unprecedented step of inspecting all cargo to and from North Korea, impose new trade restrictions and bar North Korean vessels suspected of carrying illegal goods from ports.

Out campaigners have accused the government of launching “Project Fear” and claim the riskier scenario for Britain is staying inside the EU.

People gather at the site of a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016.

The next day, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed a Syrian Kurdish YPG militia fighter working with Kurdish militants inside Turkey for the attack, naming him as Salih Necar, born in 1992, and from the Hasakah region of northern Syria.

Opposition parties pleaded with the ANC to let President Jacob Zuma go, while the ruling party sang his praises.

The two soldiers were later recovered unharmed.

North Korea has presented a detained American student before media in Pyongyang.

Super Tuesday is the first day of multiple-state voting in the 2016 election.

Trump got his largest response when he spoke about building a wall between the USA and Mexico, protecting gun rights and “saying Merry Christmas again”.

Australian Cardinal George Pell, a close advisor to Pope Francis and the church’s Secretariat for the Economy- reputedly the second most powerful position in Rome- was giving evidence in an Australian courtroom Monday morning to Australia’s Royal Commission into...