World Politics

Controversy was Le Pen's constant companion: his multiple convictions for inciting racial hatred and condoning war crimes dogged the National Front.

Once a media sensation, the Canadian prime minister has resigned. So what went wrong?

The PM has been under pressure from his own party as his popularity dips. Audio

Analysis - Late on a day of chaos and blood on 6 January 2021, it was unimaginable that Donald Trump - who summoned a mob to Washington and told the crowd to "fight like hell" - would get anywhere… Audio

It's a decision incoming president Donald Trump may find difficult to reverse.

Russia's use of off-the-books ships began shortly after the EU placed sanctions on it after the invasion of Ukraine.

However, he has not made a final decision, according to a source familiar with Trudeau's thinking.

The incoming first lady will be an executive producer, signalling that the documentary is being made with her full participation - and editorial control.

Giorgia Meloni, a member of the right-wing Brothers of Italy party, has ties to the incoming Trump administration, in particular with Elon Musk.

Musk had seemingly backed the Brexit campaigner and posed for a photograph with him as recently as last month.

Analysis - It was not the start to 2025 that Keir Starmer wanted or expected, as Elon Musk engulfed his government in a very public fight.

Austria's chancellor Karl Nehammer has announced he will step, after talks between the country's two main centrist parties on forming a coalition government without a far-right collapsed.

An award-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post resigned after the paper rejected her cartoon showing the newspaper's billionaire owner groveling before Donald Trump.

Mourners began paying their respects to Jimmy Carter, as a carefully choreographed six-day farewell for America's longest-lived president got underway.

By the time of his inauguration on 20 January, American flags will still be lowered in honour of the late President Jimmy Carter.

The comments come after US President-elect Donald Trump expressed his wish for "ownership and control" of Greenland.

Suspects will be hit by travel bans and social media blackouts as the government cracks down on illegal migration.

Cheney bucked her Republican Party as a strong critic of President-elect Donald Trump ahead of the November election.

Finnish police said today that seven sailors from the Eagle S tanker suspected of last week cutting an undersea power cable between Finland and Estonia are targets of a sabotage investigation.

Sadiq Khan has followed other prominent politicians from Britain's ruling Labour party by drawing a line under his previous outspoken criticism of US president-elect Donald Trump.