A Pennsylvania town leader bows to pressure to quit, four months after he compared the Obama family to orangutans in a Facebook post.

At least 23 people die after a fire breaks out in a private hospital in eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, local officials say.

Iraqi forces are "ahead of schedule" following the first day of the battle to retake Mosul from so-called IS fighters, the Pentagon says.

A 72-hour truce in conflict-ravaged Yemen is set to begin on Thursday, the UN special envoy announces.

Melania Trump tells CNN that obscene comments caught on videotape by her husband were unacceptable but did not represent the man she knows.

A former Arkansas judge accused of of giving lighter sentences to male defendants in exchange for nude photos faces federal fraud and bribery charges.

Web robots - or bots - posted many more pro-Trump tweets than pro-Clinton ones during and after the first presidential debate.

An Ontario judge dismisses an application that sought to bar the use of the Cleveland Indians baseball team name and logo in the province.