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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.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been locked in a dead heat in their historic clash for the White House, as the world waited anxiously for results from the key battleground states that will decide the winner.

Britain's Supreme Court said on Tuesday it has set aside four days starting on December 5 to hear the government's appeal against a landmark ruling that it must seek parliament's approval to start the Brexit process.

An investment of just US$1-2 per person per month could give all people in low- and middle-income countries access to a basket of 201 essential medicines, researchers have said.

South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday raided Samsung Electronics' headquarters as part of a probe into a damaging political scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her close personal friend.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have given US voters a stark choice as their brutal White House battle neared its end -- between her vision of unity and his promise to take back power from Washington's corrupt elites.