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One person was killed and at least three wounded in gunfire on Tuesday near a polling station in the Southern California.

In a US presidential election that's already been out of this world, the lone American astronaut in outer space has cast his vote, NASA has said.

British police were trying to quell a prison riot involving up to 200 inmates, which broke out just days after a warders' association warned of a "bloodbath" in the UK's detention facilities.

A recent poll indicated that Pramila Jayapal had a commanding lead in double digits against Brady Pineto Walkinshaw, who she defeated in the primaries by a substantial margin.

Hours after the FBI affirmed that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would not be prosecuted for her private e-mail server, Donald Trump said rank-and-file agents "won't let her get away with her terrible crimes".

A majority of registered US voters, or 52 per cent, agree with Donald Trump's accusation that the US media is biased in favour of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to a latest Gallup poll.

The essay, which uses lengthy religious arguments in an effort to justify such attacks, also declares there is no difference between the Republican and Democratic parties in their "policies against Islam and Muslims".

The Mauritanian diplomat, who arrived in the insurgent-held capital on Thursday for his second visit in a week, has led talks in Yemen since April 2015 and brokered several ceasefires that were often violated and failed to generate momentum towards a peac...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by 5 percentage points: Reuters/Ipsos.

The FBI operates on "concrete decisions" and not on incomplete information or leaks, US President Barack Obama has said as he spoke for the first time on the reopened investigation against Hillary Clinton's alleged email scandal by the country's top domes...

India is relying on President Pranab Mukherjee to put its relationship with Nepal back on track and dispel any misconceptions in the mind of the political leadership in the country.

Over half of the respondents in a recent US poll said they were "alarmed" over the upcoming presidential election, with most still deciding on which candidate to choose to lead the nation.

An Australian man who was reported missing for two weeks and "covered in leeches" in a Malaysian jungle was rescued and said he survived by eating wild plants.

A fresh analysis of the final moments of doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 suggests no one was controlling the plane when it plunged into the ocean, according to a report released by investigators on Wednesday.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign officials have dismissed a poll suggesting that her Republican rival Donald Trump may have taken the lead in the final days before the November 8 election.

Kyrgyzstan's security service said on Tuesday that a drunk man who halted operations at the country's main airport with a false bomb scare was trying to stop his wife from leaving for Moscow