Anxiety and disbelief mounted among US allies, but Europe's far right exulted today, as Donald Trump swept the votes to win the US presidential race.

The new leader of the free world is President Donald Trump - while Hillary Clinton concedes defeat and fails to show at her own HQ. Here's how it unfolded.

The NZ Herald wasn't the only paper around the world to go big with the US election coverage.

"I hope the world survives the next four years of a Trump presidency," says Democratic supporter.

Donald Trump has promised that as president he will honour the pledge stitched into his white and red baseball caps: Make America Great Again.

Opinion: It's early evening in New York and the bars, festooned with televisions, are opening for those who're popping in for a pint after work.

A Mariachi band just put on a show outside Trump Tower - it's probably safe to assume they're #WithHer.

Hip-hop's biggest names are going out of their way to make sure their fans don't vote for Trump - here's how.

Former president did not campaign for his party's nominee Donald Trump, but did he vote for him?

The US election result could soothe or shock Kiwi investors and businesses.

A detailed look at potential winners and losers depending on the outcome of the election.

We're hours away from knowing who will become the next US president. Here's everything you need to know for election day.

It's not just the polls predicting a Hillary Clinton victory. Donald Trump is genuinely facing a huge task to win the election.

It's the traditional first vote of the US Presidential race, cast at midnight on election day, but it hasn't gone exactly to plan.

Madonna, Lady Gaga and the Kardashians are among the many celebrities taking to social media as election day looms in the US.

National and Labour women would like to see the United States catch up with New Zealand and elect their first woman leader.

"If you're supporting Trump, I want nothing to do with you," Hollywood veteran Robert De Niro announced when asked to pose for a snap with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Hillary Clinton is making a last push to get young voters through Snapchat filters.

This make-up artist's incredible US presidential transformation will make your jaw drop.

Who can you trust more: Trump or Clinton? Here's a look back on the biggest fibs told by the candidates throughout the election campaign.

Dave Chappelle reckons Trump was in the right in that Access Hollywood tape, saying it came from Hillary and "nobody questioned it".

The US presidential election has become an object lesson in everything that ails a country long seen as a beacon of freedom and hope.

A US tabloid allegedly paid $150,000 to a former Playboy playmate for exclusive rights to her story about having an affair with Donald Trump.

New Zealand shares fell, the index's correction from a record high on September 7, as investors fretted that valuations weren't supported by earnings growth.

Are you starting to wonder where all the outstanding leaders are in the world? And why it's so hard to find them in public office

Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's campaign manager quarreled with Whoopi Goldberg over what's "nasty" - Hillary Clinton's tactics or those of the GOP nominee.

COMMENT: Rhe person that best captures the mind-boggle of it all is neither Trump, nor Ms Bono, nor novelty shrimps, but Peter Thiel.

COMMENT: The state has come a long way since racial segregation. Chris Reed reports on the Democrats' fight against apathy

Iran's supreme leader says the statements made by the frontrunners in the US Presidential race are proof of the destruction of human values in the United States,"

Trump swerved back on script, showing flashes of a cohesive closing argument in the final stage of a presidential campaign, but will this last?