If anything's constant in American political life, it's the stable two-party system. Yet, at times of extreme political flux, this society has broken up into four parties.

At a workshop on a summer day in Riyadh, prospective candidates in local elections are limbering up. One wants to help kids, one to improve living conditions in the Saudi capital, another to become a political role model.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has again become a lightning rod for accusation and counter-accusation as Swedish prosecutors dropped three sex assault claims against him but intend to pursue a rape claim.

Authorities in Fiji believe a British Army veteran has been overseeing secret military training in the country's tropical hinterland as part of a plot to form a breakaway "Christian" state.

American voters' craving for authenticity in political leaders is aiding hopefuls such as Ben Carson and Bernie Sanders.

Why is Donald Trump holding a commanding poll lead over his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination? Paul Thomas has some possible answers.

Donald Trump has become the target of a Twitter campaign by women angry at his sexist remarks after the Republican candidate's debate last week.

The celebrity billionaire struggles to turn his political fling into a durable campaign.

"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.

We were liquored up and keen to dance and they saw us straight away. An unattached white male? Boom.

Unlike Greece, there was never much of a boom. There has only been a bust.

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.

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.

WATCH VIDEO: Lord in charge of policing standards in UK Parliament caught snorting cocaine with two prostitutes.

First Donald Trump questioned whether Sen. John McCain was truly a war hero.

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.