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Rescuers in New Zealand today began airlifting tourists stranded by a 7.8 earthquake that devastated parts of the South Island's rugged coast, as a navy ship headed to the stricken area to help.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump spoke on the phone on Monday evening and agreed on the need to normalise ties between Washington and Moscow.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces questioning by prosecutors today at the Ecuadoran embassy in London in a twist in the long-running legal battle over a rape allegation against him.

Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels have been nearly flat for three years in a row – a "great help" but not enough to stave off dangerous global warming, a report said today.

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to move aggressively on a conservative agenda in filling Supreme Court vacancies, cracking down on immigration and cutting taxes, but also sought to reassure worried Americans they have nothing to fear from his presidency.

A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed two people and caused massive infrastructure damage in New Zealand on Monday, but officials said they were optimistic the death toll would not rise.

Sixty per cent of the 5.9 million children under five who died last year were in just 10 countries in Africa and Asia, an evaluation of global infant health revealed on Friday.

The IMF has urged Argentina to stay the course on tough economic reforms, but also to take steps to protect the poor from the negative consequences.

A powerful Taliban truck bomb struck the German consulate in Afghanistan's northern Mazar-i-Sharif city late on Thursday, killing at least two people and wounding more than 100 in a major militant assault in the war-torn country.

Barack Obama and Donald Trump on Thursday put past animosity aside during a 90-minute White House meeting designed to quell fears about the health of the world's pre-eminent democracy.

 Five students were shot and seriously hurt and 18 others injured Wednesday during clashes with police in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa during protests over tuition fees, a doctor said.

At least seven people were killed and around 50 injured when a London tram came off the tracks and tipped over on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama will host Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, hoping to ease a smooth transition of power and steady nerves after an election that has shocked the world.

The Pentagon said on Wednesday that US air strikes in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State group may have killed 119 civilians since 2014, a figure far lower than casualty estimates by monitoring groups.

Donald Trump has stunned America and the world, riding a wave of populist resentment to defeat Hillary Clinton in the race to become the 45th president of the United States.

A seven-year-old schoolgirl has been killed and 32 Indian UN peacekeepers were wounded in an explosion in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the world body said.

Iraqi Kurdish forces have seized the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from the Islamic State group, an official has said, as US-backed militia forces advance on the jihadists' Syrian stronghold Raqa.

 Italian rules which mean children of married couples are automatically given only their father's surname are unlawful, the country's constitutional court has ruled.