US President Donald Trump's decision to stop all funding to the World Health Organization amid pandemic has not gone down well with several celebrities. The United States is the WHO's largest donor, and the State Department had previously planned to provide the organization $893 million in the current two-year funding period.

'How sick!': Barbra Streisand, Bill Gates and other celebrities slam Trump for halting WHO funding

US and Chinese negotiators kicked off two days of high-level trade talks in Beijing on Thursday hoping to resolve a festering dispute that has cast a shadow over financial markets and the global growth outlook.

US, China open trade talks in Beijing as deadline looms

China on Tuesday welcomed US President Donald Trump's move to seek Pakistan's support for his efforts to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table to end the 17-year brutal war in Afghanistan.

China welcomes Trump seeking Pakistan's help to end war in Afghanistan

Wall Street rose on Friday as investors hoped for progress on trade in a critical US-China meeting over the weekend, and the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq posted their biggest weekly percentage gains in nearly seven years.

Wall Street rises on trade hopes; S&P, Nasdaq post best weeks in seven years

Trump put North Korea back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday, a designation that allows the US to impose more sanctions and risks inflaming tension over North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programmes

North Korea calls terror relisting 'serious provocation' by Trump