French president Emmanuel Macron extended an olive branch to US president-elect Donald Trump yesterday, declaring that France is &a solid ally& as he outlined his vision for global diplomacy in 2025 during his New Year&s address to French ambassadors.

Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the certification of her defeat to Donald Trump on Monday, four years after he tried to stop the very process that will now return him to the White House.

A federal judge in New York City has said that Rudy Giuliani is in contempt of court for failing to properly respond to requests for information as he turned over assets to satisfy a 148 million dollars (£118 million) defamation judgment granted to two Georgia election workers.

President-elect Donald Trump was thwarted in his bid to indefinitely postpone this week's sentencing in his hush-money case while he appeals against a ruling that upheld the verdict and put him on course to be the first president to take office convicted of crimes.