David Shearer is a loss to our politics.

Vladimir Putin is dreaming of ending his career and going travelling in his retirement, he revealed today.

The President-elect has spent the week trumpeting his success in saving jobs from moving out of the United States. He may have twisted the facts.

The turbulence began Tuesday morning with one of President-elect Donald Trump's signature tweets of wrath.

COMMENT: In a week that went downright paranormal - mass salmoncide? - here was another blow to Nostradamus.

Outgoing Prime Minister John Key has been tipped as a potential candidate to head the International Monetary Fund.

Carrier union leader says Trump's big deal is a lie and jobs are still set to go.

The 226-page Plum Book will arrive in Washington D.C. tomorrow featuring 9,000 jobs in the Trump administration.

Trump's protocol-breaking phone call with Taiwan's leader was an intentionally provocative move, according to interviews with people involved in planning.

Donald Trump had a stern warning to companies thinking of leaving the United States during his Twitter tirade.

ANALYSIS: US President-elect Donald Trump has a chat with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing Wen, breaking a long tradition.

Trump's Cabinet choices reflect a political savviness that many people haven't been willing to grant the President-elect.

"We have 48 decisive hours in which we can change the future of our children," the Prime Minister told crowds at a rally in his home town of Florence.

All eyes are on Italy as its Brexit/Trump moment arrives in what could plunge the country into financial crisis.

Trump is shocked that Carrier took him literally. That doesn't bode well for his many promises.

James 'Mad Dog' Mattis is set to be announced as Donald Trump's Secretary of Defense.

New Yorkers have signed a petition demanding that Melania Trump move to Washington DC after the inauguration of president-elect Donald Trump.

A few weeks ago, a federal judge in Oregon made headlines when she ruled that a groundbreaking climate lawsuit will proceed to trial.

An IBM employee has quit in protest after her boss wrote a letter to President-elect Donald Trump offering to work with the new administration.

Donald Trump tweeted that he would soon leave his "great business in total" to focus on the presidency.

An Indiana-based manufacturer has reached an agreement with Donald Trump to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in the state that had been slated to move to Mexico.

"Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me." Those were the words of Fidel Castro in October 1953.

COMMENT: Do the outside powers that have intervened in the war accept Bashar al-Assad's victory, or do they keep the war going?

Castro thrived on confrontation with US leaders, and he almost surely would have enjoyed facing off against America's next one.

ANALYSIS: Trump's victory is marred by that fact: He will be the president, but more people voted against him.

Francois Fillon has won the presidential nomination for France's main conservative party after trouncing his more moderate rival at primaries.

President-elect ridicules Wisconsin recount by tweeting debunked voting fraud theory.

He believes 9/11 was an inside job and NASA faked the moon landings. He also helped Donald Trump win the election.

Pauline Hanson has set out to prove climate change "untruths" on the Great Barrier Reef ... but she was about 1300km off.

The state of Wisconsin is poised to hold a recount after the Green Party's US presidential candidate led a multimillion-dollar fundraising drive.