Paul Ryan, the top Republican in the U.S. Congress, said on Monday he would not defend Donald Trump nor campaign with him, plunging the Republican candidate's presidential bid deeper into crisis over his sexually aggressive remarks about women. Ryan, speaker of the House of Representatives,...

Republican Donald Trump publicly broke with his running mate, Mike Pence, on how to deal with the civil war in Syria in comments during Sunday's U.S. presidential debate that exposed further tensions within their campaign. "He and I haven’t spoken, and I disagree,” Trump said in response...

A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer was targeted on Sunday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters, saying neither of the two missiles hit the ship. The attempted strike on the USS Mason, which was...

Attitudes to women dominated Sunday night’s presidential debate with Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton condemning Republican rival Donald Trump over vulgar comments he made in footage released earlier in the week. Trump in turn focused on Clinton’s husband’s affairs and accused her of...