WORLD

It comes as no surprise President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announces he seeks another four-year term.

British PM Theresa May will meet President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

In what is seen as a test of Donald Trump's Presidential powers the US Supreme Court announced it will consider a challenge to a ban on people from 6 Muslim-majority countries.

Authorities said that a 17-year-old girl survived a raging house fire, while a 13-year-old boy and his father died as the child tried to help his paralysed parent.

Stormy Daniels claims to have had an affair with Trump and witnessed firsthand his "obsession" with sharks.

Donald Trump will be visiting Switzerland where he will meet world leaders at the World Economic Forum.

A once famous German rapper has died following an air strike in Syria. "Deso Dogg" joined the Islamic State in 2014.

In temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius (–22F), believers immersed themselves in cross-shaped holes cut into thick ice covering rivers and lakes.

Norwegian people using snus – an orally taken snuff tobacco – now outnumber smokers for the first time in history. Snus is healthier than cigarettes, yet it is banned by the EU.

Boris Johnson has reportedly floated the idea of a bridge connecting the UK and France in a meeting with Emmanuel Macron.

A coalition of Indian churches has challenged the country's law currently used to penalise homosexuality.

Almost 5,000 Airbnb hosts in San Francisco have had their properties removed from the website after failing to comply with new registration laws.

US Republicans are demanding that a private memo shown to the US intelligence committee is made public.

The Kim Jong-un regime is set to send its 140-member art troupe to South Korea to showcase its softer side to the world.

Whitehall officials had been trying to arrange talks between Trump and May, but their efforts have failed.

Helen Grace James, from Pennsylvania, received an 'honourable discharge' after a 60-year battle with authorities.

Japanese authorities and students' parents are outraged by the flyover as the US forces pushed to damage-control mode.

Dogs seized from home of Turpin family up for adoption as parents deny multiple allegations of child neglect and torture.

Scientists said test was aimed at detecting eight common forms of the deadly disease.

Syrian regime warns Turkish warplanes will have "no picnic" in its territorial airspace and vows to "destroy" the invading jets.

Investigators will comb through the charred wreckage in search for clues as to why the helicopter carrying the group of prominent friends went down after dark Wednesday (17 January).

Nine-year-old girl at Albuquerque School of Excellence says she felt room was "flipping to the side" after accidentally eating THC edible.

Russian President Vladimir Putin immersed himself in a frozen lake to celebrate Epiphany, a major holiday in Orthodox Christianity marking the baptism of Jesus.

Trump had tests done to assess his cognitive abilities which he passed with a maximum score, but it could deter some voters.

Kiev adopted a law labelling Moscow as an "aggressor" state in Donetsk and Luhansk provinces.

The child captured in the video on Weibo has been identified as Li Changjiang or simply "the delivery boy".

A baby was killed and more than a dozen people were injured after a car rammed through pedestrians near Copacabana beach in Brazil.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced she is expecting her first child with her partner Clarke Gayford.

Pope Francis conducted an impromptu wedding of a couple of flight attendants aboard the papal plane as he traveled from Santiago to Iquique, Chile.