Shinzo Abe, Japan's Prime Minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), centre, speaks, as Taro Aso, ...

Nikkei rises 4 per cent as Abe wins poll

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's conservative coalition scored a convincing upper house election raising hopes he can push ahead on economic reform.

President Jacob Zuma of South Africa arrives for the inauguration ceremony of Uganda's long-time president Yoweri ...

ANC set to lose Pretoria

South Africa's ruling party may be heading towards its first major loss since the end of apartheid

Is the United States unraveling?

The centre is not holding. The United States is not a country in open revolution. We are not a country under enemy siege. We are the United ...