Canada's main immigration website appears to suffer repeated outages as Trump takes the lead in several major states and his prospects for winning the US presidency turns markedly higher.

Republican Donald Trump scores a series of surprising wins in battleground states including Florida and Ohio, opening a path to the White House for the political outsider and rattling world markets counting on a win by Democrat Hillary Clinton.

European shares fall at the open after Republican nominee and political outsider Donald Trump won the US presidential election, bringing uncertainty which roiled global markets.

Donald Trump is US President elect winning 276 Electoral College votes while Democrat Hillary Clinton gets 218, according to The Guardian.

Republican White House nominee Donald Trump makes a last-minute appeal to voters to turn out, saying the election was "far from over," just a few hours before the first East Coast polling stations close.

Social media jokes about Donald Trump "peeking" at his wife's ballot, Obama shoots hoops and the "sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits" is revived. Here are some snippets from around the United States on Election Day.

One man is killed and two women wounded when a gunman opens fire with an assault rifle at a house across the street from a polling station in the Southern California town of Azusa , police say, before the gunman is also found dead.

Republicans hold on to their majority in the US House of Representatives as Republicans secure 222 seats against 160 seats for Democrats according to The New York Times.

In a US presidential election that's already been out of this world, the lone American astronaut in outer space has cast

The US presidential election got under way -- on a small scale -- with the seven voters of a tiny New Hampshire village

Even if, as most polls predict, he loses Tuesday's US presidential election, Donald Trump's populist charge will leave its mark

Democrat Hillary Clinton has about a 90 percent chance of defeating Republican Donald Trump in the race for the

As voters head to the polls in Tuesday's US election, hopes have dampened among Democrats that they will make

Sophy Warner wanted to vote for third-party U.S. presidential candidate Jill Stein. But she worried that her ballot, cast

The world of internet is going crazy to know what is happening at the polling centres across the United States as the most controversial presidential elections in the history of the 240 year old country kicks off.

Here's a list of a few celebrities who say they would move out of the US if Republican Party nominee Donald Trump wins the ticket to the White House.

Hillary Clinton casts her vote near her home in New York state, as America chooses whether to make her its first woman president, or elect the populist Donald Trump.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump wait for voters' verdict. Follow all the latest here with live updates and analysis.

The most grueling and controversial election in the modern history of America is finally coming to a close. Here is a list of when polling ends in each US state and DC and the respective time here in Bangladesh.

Donald Trump is off to a very early lead in the 2016 presidential election, winning over the voters of three New Hampshire precincts by a 32-25 margin over Hillary Clinton.