How long can the Republicans treat Donald Trump as a sideshow before they and the party they seek to lead suffer the political effects of his excesses?

The eulogies have been delivered, the set disassembled and Jon Stewart's parting "bullshit-is-everywhere" monologue is fading.

"You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her - wherever," Trump said after the debate, speaking on CNN.

Donald Trump was not terribly happy with Megyn Kelly's questions during the very first campaign debate, Trump's Twitter account reaffirmed this.

President Francois Hollande has resolved a spat with Russia over the future of two advanced warships Moscow ordered from France before its annexation of Crimea poisoned relations with the West.

Seventy years on, the feared nuclear Armageddon has been kept in check - but a new threat is mounting, writes Alexander Gillespie.

Police have named former British PM Sir Edward Heath as a suspected paedophile in the ongoing investigation into allegations of historic child abuse.

The age of entitlement is over for Lady Bronwyn. No more helicopter trips on the public purse, writes Billy Adams. Public resignations have rarely been so long coming.

the mess the Republicans are making of their challenge has been illustrated yet again by Donald Trump's bumptious hijacking of the British Open women's golf championship.

John Howard famously couldn't bring himself to apologise to the stolen generations. This week Bronwyn Bishop finally succumbed over taking taxpayers for an expensive (helicopter) ride.

Britain was accused yesterday of playing into the hands of China after it refused the political dissident Ai Weiwei a six-month business visa and claimed he lied on his application form.

After decades of chanting "Death to America", Iran's rulers have finally embraced a slogan that celebrates life and procreation.

From the outside, the Security Council looks like a shed out the back of the United Nations.

What happens when the Secretary General's term ends next year is only faintly more transparent than appointing a new Pope, writes Audrey Young.

Some people, such as Britain's Prime Minister, will be glad that Lord Sewel has quit the House of Lords after apparently being caught in a sex and drugs sting.

Lord Sewel has resigned as a peer in the House of Lords after footage emerged of him allegedly taking cocaine with two prostitutes.

The Middle East continues its slide into chaos with Turkish warplanes joining the fray in Syria, further embroiling Nato's eastern rampart in that country's civil war.

If Labour is to have any credibility, Andrew Little needs to have the guts to announce it will oppose the TPPA, writes Jane Kelsey.

He tells Kenyan president "bad things happen" when countries don't accept their citizens' right to be gay.

Consciences stir as report reveals how burden of disenfranchisement falls on poor blacks excluded for life.

The White House has announced that it is finalising a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba.

The Republican presidential candidate and his campaign give shifting accounts of the medical deferment that meant he avoided being deployed to Vietnam.

Britain must accept that "sooner or later" ground troops and tanks will have to be sent into combat to overcome Isis a former chief of the Armed Forces has said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel held out the prospect of limited debt relief as crisis-hit Greece prepares to reopen its banks three weeks after they were shut.

Australian Speaker Bronwyn Bishop remains defiant as her taxpayer-funded travel expenses come under scrutiny.

Donald Trump, who has rocketed to the front of the Republican presidential race, flippantly belittled a Senator's war service, inviting a torrent of criticism.

Iran, once OPEC's second-biggest producer, will boost its oil exports by 500,000 barrels a day immediately after sanctions are lifted

Donald Trump, the provocative Republican presidential candidate, has caused anger among his party members by attacking Republican grandee John McCain.

The European Union seems to be using imaginary numbers in constructing a bailout for Greece. Here are some of them.