Donald Trump will be sworn in for a historic second term as US president Monday, promising a new "golden age" for America as the world braces for the return of his unpredictable leadership. Freezing weather has forced the 78-year-old's inauguration ceremony in Washington indoors, but the first hours of the most extraordinary comeback in US…

The European Union launched a new challenge at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Monday against China's rules on royalty rates for high-tech patents, amid escalating trade tensions between Beijing and Brussels. The European Commission accused China of pressuring innovative European high-tech companies into lowering their fees by allowing its courts to set binding worldwide…

Swedish prosecutors on Monday asked a court to remand in detention a convicted Swedish jihadist for his suspected involvement in the 2014 killing of a Jordanian pilot in Syria. Osama Krayem, 32, has already been sentenced for his involvement in the 2015 attacks in Paris and the attacks in Brussels a year later. Prosecutors requested…

Thai authorities intercepted more than one and a half tonnes of crystal methamphetamine in a record seizure of the illegal drug, senior narcotic officials said Monday. The haul -- which authorities said had been sent from Africa via India and was bound for Europe, the United States or Australia -- was found at a warehouse…

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Monday praised Donald Trump as warm and friendly with "incredible grace" and in no way a "warmonger", in marked contrast to past scathing comments. In 2018 Lammy, who was then in opposition, called Trump a "woman-hating, neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath" and a "tyrant in a toupee" while other senior Labour…