US House adjourns after holding a record eleven failed votes since Tuesday to put Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy behind the gavel as the new House speaker.

Control of the United States congress still hangs in the balance after Americans casted their ballots in Tuesday midterm elections.

People in New Caledonia have voted overwhelmingly to remain part of France.

Peter Marki-Zay, a conservative provincial mayor, looks set to challenge Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at an election next year after taking a lead in an opposition primary vote.

Ecuador's National Assembly has elected a representative of the Pachakutik indigenous political party as its president for the next two years, with the support of allies of conservative President-elect Guillermo Lasso.

British MPs have voted in support of Boris Johnson's plan for a second lockdown by a big majority.