Macron rejects ‘excessively military’ ceremony for Armistice Day, sparking row over commemorations

Emmanuel Macron has provoked a row by ordering that ceremonies in France marking the centenary of the end of the First World War next month must avoid commemorating it as a military triumph. Sixty heads of state and government including US President Donald Trump are to attend ceremonies in Paris on Armistice Day, November 11.  The French…

Donald Trump said black people were ‘too stupid’ to vote for him, his former lawyer Michael Cohen claims

Donald Trump once claimed black people were "too stupid" to vote for him and regularly used explicitly racist language before coming into office, his former lawyer has claimed.  Michael Cohen, who served as the president’s lawyer and fixer for a decade, claimed he witnessed Mr Trump making derogatory comments about black people throughout the 2016…

The migrant caravan is the gift that keeps on giving for Donald Trump’s midterm elections campaign

When Bill Clinton was running for president his strategist James Carville had a sign put on the wall at campaign headquarters reminding everyone the election was about "the economy stupid". In 2018, despite presiding over a booming stock market, low unemployment, and major tax cuts, Donald Trump has decided next month’s US midterm elections are not…

Man pleads guilty to kidnapping and raping British backpacker in Australia

A 23-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the rape and kidnapping of a British backpacker in Australia after holding her captive during a brutal 900-mile road trip across the outback.  Appearing via video in a court in Cairns in north Queensland, Marcus Allyn Keith Martin pleaded guilty to three counts of rape and one count…

Overwatch’s new tool for fighting toxicity is Avoid as Teammate

A new Avoid as Teammate option is coming to Overwatch “as soon as possible”, finally giving us some immediate power to prevent other people ruining our fun. Maybe you’re grouped with a tyrant, maybe you’re grouped with someone deliberately working against the team and throwing the match, or maybe you’re simply partnered with a pratt….

French far-right overtakes Macron in EU parliament election poll

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally has overtaken the centrist party of Emmanuel Macron, the French president, for the first time, according to an opinion poll released Sunday, in a further sign of the rise of the far-Right in Europe. The Ifop poll measured voting intentions for European Parliament elections next May, seen as a decisive battle between pro-EU…

WATCH: Donald Trump’s abortion stance is alienating women – but is his Christian support enough to win the midterms?

Two Years Of Trump is a week-long series of special video reports by The Telegraph’s US team. Each day, as the midterm elections approach on November 6, we’ll examine the key issues which voters will be weighing up when they go to the polls. Scroll down to watch our video special report. Donald Trump came…

Despite Donald Trump’s warnings the weary migrant caravan of hope marches onwards

In Honduras she had run a stall selling pupusas, a local tortilla, but been forced to shut down after being extorted by street gangs. "If you don’t pay them they kill you," said the woman, drawing a finger slowly across her throat. "It’s like a tax of war, money to bandits, and you can’t not…

Nine people wounded after woman blows herself up in central Tunis

  A 30-year old woman blew herself up in the centre of the Tunisian capital Tunis on Monday, wounding nine people including eight police in what the Interior Ministry called a "terrorist explosion". Witnesses described a blast on the central Habib Bourguiba avenue where hundreds of police later cordoned off an area near the capital’s…