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Pakistan's Prime Minister-designate Imran Khan on Tuesday said he was greatly optimistic about the country's future despite the "grave economic crisis" and issues like corruption, as he vowed to realise the vision of the nation's founding fathers.

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday Turkey would boycott electronic products from the US, retaliating in a row with Washington that helped drive the lira to record lows.

Two Malaysian women convicted for attempting to have lesbian sex will be fined and caned, a prosecutor said on Tuesday, in a rare case against gay people.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, calling her "a dog" as his fellow former reality TV star continued to publicly release recordings from her time in Trump's orbit.

Another day, another terror attack in London - and, as is becoming all too frequent, outside the Palace of Westminster.

A car slammed into security barriers outside the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday, injuring a number of pedestrians.

The most senior Roman Catholic cleric convicted of covering up child sex abuse was ordered by an Australian court on Tuesday to serve his one-year sentence in home detention rather than jail.

The driver was sweating as his white Kia pickup truck sped along a rain-slicked Baghdad highway towards a neighbourhood bustling with open-air markets.

Imran takes the oath as a member of the National Assembly in Islamabad on Monday. Khan had to borrow a waistcoat from an Assembly employee for a parliamentary registration card photograph. (AP)

Five hardline extremists were sentenced to death on Monday by a special Bangladeshi tribunal for committing crimes against humanity and siding with the Pakistani troops in carrying out a genocide in a village during the Liberation War in 1971.