Canada's best-known writer Margaret Atwood says it was largely worries about women's issues after the US election that made her book "The Handmaid's Tale" the latest dystopian novel to shoot back up bestseller lists.

President Donald Trump welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a brotherly hug and warm words of admiration Friday, as he ditched previously hard-charging rhetoric toward Tokyo during a White House summit.

Three former top executives of SNC-Lavalin have been acquitted in an international bribery case linked to Padma bridge construction project in Bangladesh. An Ontario Superior Court justice dismissed the case at the prosecution's request.

Former Somali prime minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who holds joint American citizenship, was elected

The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks wrote to former president Barack Obama to tell him 9/11

The US military said Wednesday that it had killed eleven al-Qaeda operatives, including a veteran leader and suicide

The US Senate confirmed Jeff Sessions as attorney general Wednesday, despite fierce debate about his civil rights

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and US President Donald Trump agreed in a phone call overnight to act jointly

President Donald Trump has vowed that America and its allies would defeat the "forces of death" and keep radical

A group of prominent Democrats including former secretaries of state John Kerry and Madeleine Albright yesterday called for a federal

President Donald Trump is drawing fire from Republicans and Democrats alike after playing down political assassinations in Russia and Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

President Donald Trump says that he would put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of a commission to probe what he believes was voter fraud in last November's election.

US President Donald Trump told Ukraine's leader on Saturday that he would work with Kiev and Moscow to try to end

The lead in voter support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative alliance over the centre-left Social

Washington's new UN envoy Nikki Haley is putting in motion a far-reaching review of UN peacekeeping that is likely

Protests against US travel ban

China yesterday warned the US it was risking instability in Asia after President Donald Trump's new defence secretary vowed to back Japan in any military clash with Beijing over a disputed island chain.

A Florida judge has ordered President Donald Trump to pay nearly $6 million in a breach of contract dispute at a country club he owns.

A longtime CIA clandestine operations official reportedly involved in its much-criticized "black site" interrogations after the 9/11 attacks

A US federal judge on Thursday extended until February 21 a stay on visa holders from seven Muslim majority countries and refugees