Here are the early picks and top contenders for some of the key posts overseeing defense, intelligence, diplomacy, trade, immigration and economic policymaking

Trump said Musk and another stalwart ally, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, would lead a "Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE')" a tongue-in-cheek reference to an internet meme and cryptocurrency

"Most of Gaza is now a wasteland of rubble," acting UN aid chief Joyce Msuya told the council.

Hegseth is an Army National Guard veteran and according to his website served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

International aid groups said that Israel had failed to meet a series of US demands intended to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza by a deadline that ended yesterday.

US President-elect Donald Trump has picked Senator Marco Rubio as secretary of state and Congressman Michael Waltz as National Security Advisor (NSA), reports said yesterday.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday told world leaders at the COP29 summit to “pay up” to prevent climate-led humanitarian disasters, and said time was running out to limit a destructive rise in global temperatures.

A man killed 35 people and injured 43 more when he ploughed his car into those exercising around a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai on Monday

A New York state judge has paused proceedings in President-elect Donald Trump’s already decided criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a document made public yesterday showed.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigned “in sorrow” yesterday, saying he had failed to ensure there was a proper investigation into allegations of abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps decades ago.

A hit-and-run attack at a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai killed 35 people and severely injured 43, local police said yesterday.

Eleven people were killed when a teashop in Myanmar was hit by a military airstrike in the town of Naungcho in the northern Shan state yesterday afternoon, a spokesperson for a local ethnic armed group said.

The UN warned yesterday that already low levels of aid trickling into Gaza had dwindled further, with the situation in the besieged north especially “catastrophic”.

The Israeli military pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs with airstrikes yesterday, mounting one of its heaviest daytime attacks yet on the Hezbollah-controlled area after the defence minister ruled out a ceasefire until Israeli goals were met.

A car drove into a group of people outside a sports centre in China's southern city of Zhuhai

The executive actions would give federal immigration officers more latitude to arrest people with no criminal records, surge troops to the US-Mexico border and restart construction of the border wall

Last month's airport bombing in the southern port city that killed two Chinese engineers returning to work on a project after a holiday in Thailand was the latest in a string of attacks on Beijing's interests in Pakistan.

"Oil, gas, wind, sun, gold, silver, copper, all... are natural resources and countries should not be blamed for having them and should not be blamed for bringing these resources to the market, because the market needs them."

"Many of you have been reporting on the climate implications of political events in the last weeks. I'll just say this: our process is strong. It's robust, and it will endure," Simon Stiell told reporters at the COP29 talks in Baku.

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