A growing number of Republican lawmakers and strategists fear that Trump's remarks about minorities and his unorthodox strategy have imperiled his campaign.

Pity the British. Here in NZ we have referendums on subjects such as the flag; they have them on the make-up of their nation and its place in the world.

COMMENT: Four months of primaries turn out Clinton versus Trump. America has 350 million people - is that the best it can do?

Donald Trump has taken his message of walls and deportations to the doorstep of America's busiest border crossing.

Barack Obama has chosen to break an unwritten rule by talking about Donald Trump while on foreign soil, writes Juliet Eilperin.

President Barack Obama taped the second part of an interview with CNN celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain before leaving the Vietnamese capital.

Hours before the relevant authorities had a clue what had caused EgyptAir Flight 804 to plunge into the Mediterranean, one man was in little doubt.

COMMENT: According to the person who may well be the next leader of the free world, the only things that would survive nuclear war are cockroaches and Helen Clark.

Melania Trump calls TV anchor's ogling of her "unbelievable", says the Clintons did not get her a wedding gift and recounts the time Jacko tried to make out with her.

COMMENT: Although these three races are captivating, the most important is for the presidency of the most powerful country on Earth, writes Alexander Gillespie.

Desperate anti-Trump Republicans seek a third-party challenger but keep hearing "no".

Michel Temer, is a career politician with a reputation as a skilled negotiator and smooth behind-the-scenes operator.

The constant spotlight fixed on Donald Trump for the last year would have overwhelmed any other candidate, particularly one so evasive. But not him.

Today - The man accused of killing his ex-partner Pakeeza Yusuf and her three-year-old daughter Juwairiyah Kalim has been found guilty. Te Puia is set to get $2.5m from the Tourism Growth Partnership fund for new facilities and Donald Trump’s butler of 30 years says he wants to kill Obama.

COMMENT: 20th century totalitarian ideologies of left and right were quasi-religious movements that replaced an absentee God with flesh and blood messiahs.

A majority of Brazil's Senate had indicated by last night that they will vote to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial for breaking budget laws

COMMENT: Trump may be a sinister clown, but he has unleashed a potent strain of resentment among millions of voters who feel cheated by political elites.

In London tomorrow Police Minister Judith Collins will represent the Prime Minister at the London Anti-Corruption Summit.

The election of a candidate of Islamic Pakistani extraction as mayor of London is a proud moment for Britain and inclusion of minorities in its politics.

This man jokes about wanting to gang-rape a woman and vows to kill all drug addicts. And he just won power

It's a key part of his campaign, which he's used to attack Hillary Clinton. But evidence suggests Trump has bent the truth here.

COMMENT: Washington's political elites say it'll never happen, he'll never take the White House, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

The Rolling Stones don't want Donald Trump playing their songs. Travis M. Andrews looks at similar cases and what the law says.

COMMENT: Seriously, it's entertainment. For Trump and his supporters, it's entertainment. The presidency will be entertainment for him and them.

Turkey, for all its woes, has a far more robust democratic system than Russia.

When it comes to electing a president, Americans should be spoilt for choice. Instead they will have to choose between two supremely flawed human beings.

COMMENT: We're venturing into the unknown. There have been demagogues in American politics before, but none became a major party's presidential candidate.

Australia's Labor party has accused PM Malcolm Turnbull of incompetence after he admitted his 10-year tax plan had not been costed by Treasury.

Donald Trump now faces the arduous task of coalescing a Republican party deeply divided over his toxic brand of politics.