World leaders including Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today congratulated Donald Trump on winning the US presidency.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated businessman Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election in a telegram on Wednesday, the Kremlin said.

Donald Trump says he will bind the nation's deep wounds and be a president "for all Americans".

A stony silence cast a pall early Wednesday over what was meant to be Hillary Clinton's presidential victory party as, one by one, states turns Republican red for Donald Trump.

The bafflement and bewilderment among the saner heads are now widespread as the US election results show Trump has triumphed.

Canada's main immigration website appears to suffer repeated outages as Trump takes the lead in several major states and his prospects for winning the US presidency turns markedly higher.

Republican Donald Trump scores a series of surprising wins in battleground states including Florida and Ohio, opening a path to the White House for the political outsider and rattling world markets counting on a win by Democrat Hillary Clinton.

European shares fall at the open after Republican nominee and political outsider Donald Trump won the US presidential election, bringing uncertainty which roiled global markets.

Donald Trump is US President elect winning 276 Electoral College votes while Democrat Hillary Clinton gets 218, according to The Guardian.

Republican White House nominee Donald Trump makes a last-minute appeal to voters to turn out, saying the election was "far from over," just a few hours before the first East Coast polling stations close.

Social media jokes about Donald Trump "peeking" at his wife's ballot, Obama shoots hoops and the "sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits" is revived. Here are some snippets from around the United States on Election Day.

One man is killed and two women wounded when a gunman opens fire with an assault rifle at a house across the street from a polling station in the Southern California town of Azusa , police say, before the gunman is also found dead.

Republicans hold on to their majority in the US House of Representatives as Republicans secure 222 seats against 160 seats for Democrats according to The New York Times.

In a US presidential election that's already been out of this world, the lone American astronaut in outer space has cast

The US presidential election got under way -- on a small scale -- with the seven voters of a tiny New Hampshire village

Even if, as most polls predict, he loses Tuesday's US presidential election, Donald Trump's populist charge will leave its mark

Democrat Hillary Clinton has about a 90 percent chance of defeating Republican Donald Trump in the race for the

As voters head to the polls in Tuesday's US election, hopes have dampened among Democrats that they will make

Sophy Warner wanted to vote for third-party U.S. presidential candidate Jill Stein. But she worried that her ballot, cast

The world of internet is going crazy to know what is happening at the polling centres across the United States as the most controversial presidential elections in the history of the 240 year old country kicks off.