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Despite garnering 165,250 more votes (of the 118.522,912 cast up to the present time) than her opponent Donald J. Trump, Hillary Rodham Clinton lost in an election that exposed the peculiarities of the American voting system.

Donald Trump took a dramatic win, becoming the 45th US President as he managed to win 276 electors, 7 over the 270 threshold necessary. Trump recorded crucial battleground victories in Florida, North Carolina and Ohio, Alaska and Pensylvania. The victories are stunning for a candidate long seen as unlikely to win the presidency. Hillary Clinton conceded her defeat’s.

The landmark Paris agreement on climate change will enter into force on Nov. 4, after a coalition of the world's largest polluters and small island nations threatened by rising seas pushed it past a key threshold on Oct. 5.

Police searching for missing toddler Ben Needham have found evidence of “decomposition” at the Kos dig site. A detective inspector revealed that they would be closely examining an area in the olive grove behind the farmhouse where Ben disappeared. It comes as a result of soil samples being sent to the UK, since they are still being examined back at a laboratory in Aberdeen.

Vegetarianism has come a long way in the past decade.

State police say an elderly Pennsylvania woman's Facebook "friend" stole her $78,000 life savings by convincing the woman they needed the money to import BMWs into the United States.

Donald Trump seized the mantle of Republican standard-bearer for the 2016 presidential election late May 3, sending his only serious challenger Ted Cruz crashing out of the White House race.

Ted Cruz and John Kasich have agreed to join forces to try to deny frontrunner Donald Trump the Republican Party's presidential nomination, their campaigns said April 24.

The sudden alliance, revealed in short statements, arose due to the pressing timing of the Republican party's presidential primary season.

A police woman from Mexico was suspended for posting a selfie topless while on duty. Nidia Garcia, 34, took a photo of herself in her uniform with her breasts exposed in her patrol car. The image swept across social media and the mother of two was immediately relieved of her duties pending further investigations.

Billionaire Donald Trump and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton won sweeping victories in the New York primary on April 19, bolstering their bids to secure the Republican and Democratic nominations for the White House.