Anniversary of JFK's 1963 assassination marked by dramatization which parallels the president's last days and those of Lee Harvey Oswald

Devastation in Philippines highlights urgency of Warsaw summit to pave the way for an agreement to bring down global emissions.

Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's political heir yesterday pledged to keep Italy's fragile coalition Government afloat, now that he has split with the media mogul and formed a rival centre-right party.

Xi Jinping, the stockily built, 60-year-old leader of the last major nation on earth ruled by a Communist Party, has had a good week.

When Rob Ford was elected mayor of Toronto in 2010, his bluster and checkered past were widely known. A plurality of voters backed him anyway, eager to shake things up at a City Hall they viewed as elitist and wasteful.

It is widely held that when the names go into the hat for the 2016 Democrat presidential primary, only one will matter: Hillary Clinton.

Toronto's Mayor denied that he coerced a female employee for oral sex, in a televised statement in which he also threatened to take legal action against ex-staffers who spoke to police.