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President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday he would name Andrew Liveris, chairman and chief executive of Dow Chemical Co, to head the Manufacturing Council.

Survivor Ahmadu Gulak says the two explosions struck simultaneously at opposite ends of the market selling grains and vegetables.

A top Republican Congressman has urged the US president-elect Donald Trump to meet Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama.

Former US Senator and astronaut John Glenn, who became the first American to orbit the earth, has died in Ohio. He was 95.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 hit off the Solomon Islands at 17:38 GMT on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was initially reported to be of magnitude 8.0.

Nine years ago Donald Trump shaved off her husband's hair after a wrestling match on live television. The president-elect nominated wrestling tycoon Linda McMahon to his cabinet.

A former US Army official has said that to win the war against Taliban in Afghanistan, it is essential to destroy their safe havens in Pakistan, alleging that Pak military provides intelligence, training and logistics assistance to them.

Libyan forces backed by U.S. air strikes finished clearing the last Islamic State holdout in Sirte on Tuesday after a near seven-month battle for the militant group's former North African stronghold.

The Indo-US relations will become an important part of President-elect Donald Trump’s diplomacy to “suppress” China, but it will have limited impact on Beijing as New Delhi may not accept a “quasi-alliance” with Washington.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would discuss with Donald Trump the West's "bad" nuclear deal with Iran after the U.S. president-elect enters the White House.

Italian voters have overwhelmingly rejected constitutional reform proposals on which Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has staked his political future, exit polls suggested.

A Hindu temple was vandalised and three idols of deities were destroyed by some unknown people in Bangladesh's northern Netrokona area, triggering panic among the minority community in the Muslim-majority nation.

As Syrian government forces advanced into Aleppo's rebel-held al-Sakhour district, Hasan al-Ali said he faced the choice of staying put and being caught by the army, or fleeing into a shrinking rebel enclave under relentless bombardment.

About a year ago, trucks full of building materials began arriving at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in the eastern Cuban city of Santiago. On Saturday, a white cloth was draped over a new structure near the mausoleum for Cuban independence leader Jose Marti...

US President-elect Donald Trump has warned that US companies would face "consequences" for outsourcing jobs abroad, as he touted his early success in persuading an air conditioner maker to keep about 1,000 jobs in the country rather than move them to Mexi...

US Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's popular lead over President-elect Donald Trump surpassed 2.5 million votes as ballots are still being tallied after more than three weeks since the November 8 election.