POLITICS

Daniel Kibblesmith, from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, took the US president down with a hilarious series of tweets, saying Trump wanted one adult ticket to see Boss Baby.

Donald Trump is set to mark a key reversal in policy from the previous Obama administration by denouncing climate change as a possible threat to the US.

Weird news stories in 2017 included Donald Trump tweeting "covfefe," Theresa May's conference disaster, the bizarre statue of Cristiano Ronaldo and a black bear playing piano.

Several thousand North Koreans braved freezing conditions in Pyongyang to pay tribute to their former leader Kim Jong-il on the sixth anniversary of his death.

Scotland houses 2,000 Syrian refugees three years ahead of schedule through the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement Programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announces.

Family planning organisation, Having Kids are offering US House Speaker Paul Ryan $25,000 to get a vasectomy as part of their push for people to have smaller families.

There were some very high-profile dismissals from Trump's White House in 2017 - can you name them all?

"This is not even remotely normal. There's something going on here," one Twitter user said.

"Ted Cruz, the Jar Jar Binks of the Republican party," one Twitter user wrote.

Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage said he was "53, separated and skint" in an interview with the Daily Mail - but Twitter found it easy to mock him with British schadenfreude.

Twitter blasted Sarah Huckabee Sanders over her tweet about the most "underreported" Trump stories of 2017.

This comes at a time when the BJP has struggled to woo voters after demonetisation and the poor implementation of a national sales tax.

The Organisation of American States said Honduras should re-run the election, citing "deliberate human intrusions into the computer system, intentional elimination of digital traces" and opened ballot boxes.

Theresa May is being urged to stay on as leader until after the next election to help Britain's chances for a good Brexit trade deal.

French president Emmanuel Macron spent the weekend before his 40th birthday at chateau in Loire Valley.

For the first time, the US Pentagon has admitted to funding a project investigating unidentified flying objects (UFOs): Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programme.

Donald Trump becomes the least popular first-year president according to a new poll that shows his approval at 32%.

Indonesian capital Jakarta witnesses massive demonstrations, during which calls for boycott of American and Israeli goods were made.

Chan Han Choi, born in South Korea and now a naturalised Australian citizen, was suspected of helping North Korea to earn more money beating sanctions.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been issued a list of words which its employees will not be able to use in any documents being prepared for next year's budget.

Prime Minister previously committed to leaving the European Union on 29 March 2019 but a delay would appease MPs.

The two clear front-runners are Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, former chair of the African Union Commission and Zuma's ex-wife.

"You misspelled #NetNeutrality, you genetically altered butternut squash," one Twitter use fired back.

"Was this Trump's performance review?" one Twitter user questioned.

Before the election, both parties campaigned on the need for tougher immigration controls, quick deportations of asylum-seekers whose requests are denied and a crackdown on radical Islam.

Moscow had dismissed hacking allegations as "baseless" while Trump has continued to denounce the ongoing Russia probe as a "witch hunt".

Former president of the United States, Barack Obama surprised children at an after-school club in Washington DC dressed as Santa with a large sack of presents.

His post to Instagram seemed to suggest Charles Dickens's novel A Christmas Carol is a book about Christmas hymns.

Israeli police troopers shot a man wearing what looked like a suicide bomb vest after he stabbed an officer near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank.