Uncertainty in French presidential exacerbated by complex pollster situation

Uncertainty over the outcome of the presidential elections in France, with four evenly-matched candidates, has been heightened by a lack of reliable prediction polls that had anyway failed to foresee the results in the United States presidential contest or in the United Kingdom's Brexit referendum.

National Front's Marine Le Pen takes lead in new opinion poll

National Front leader Marine Le Pen has edged ahead of conservative rival and former frontrunner François Fillon of Les Républicains party, a major poll released on Thursday showed.

Le Pen could lose presidential runoff: poll

Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Front (FN) party is gaining on Francois Fillon, the favourite candidate in the polls to win the first round of the 2017 presidential race, but she would be largely beaten by Fillon in the runoff, a pollster said on Tuesday.

S.Korean main opposition party leads presidential polls after impeachment

Presidential hopefuls of South Korean main opposition party led presidential polls after the bill to impeach President Park Geun-hye was passed through the National Assembly last week, a local survey showed on Monday.

After rapid rise, Italy's Renzi braced for fall

If voters reject Renzi's plan to streamline parliament, the center-left leader has said he will step down
Matteo Renzi rose from local government in Florence to running Italy in the space of only a few months.

US public shocked, baffled over Trump victory

After the long and grinding process of vote counting that went into 3 a.m. Wednesday morning, the result was finally out and put much of the U.S. mainstream media, many experts and the general public in a state of disbelief.

Poll: Donald Trump vaults into lead over Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump got a post-convention bounce Monday, vaulting into a lead over Hillary Clinton in a CNN/ORC survey, but a CBS poll shows a deadlocked race.

Surge in Brexit support causes shockwaves as EU referendum nears

Latest polls, as Britain's referendum on continued membership of the European Union neared, sent shockwaves through business and financial circles Monday.

New poll shows 55 percent of Brits favor leaving the EU

A new poll shows that a majority of British voters want Great Britain to leave the European Union with less than two weeks before the upcoming referendum.