Reacting to the news on Twitter, Starmer said that Biden had run a campaign "on the values that we in the United Kingdom share - decency, integrity, compassion and strength."

Joy and relief is abundant across the United States of America.

AP snapped Donald Trump playing golf at one of his clubs in Virginia, at the moment television networks across the country called the presidential election for Joe Biden.

"It's a lot easier to be a parent today," Jones said, before going on to recount how difficult the Trump presidency had been - particularly for people of colour.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been elected as the 46th president of the United States.

Bemused journalists assumed that Trump had intended to gather the world's eager press at the Four Seasons hotel, but clarification from the White House confirmed that the president was indeed heading for Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

Talks will continue, with a Brexit cliff-edge looming next month.

"These people seek absolute sameness, total uniformity," he claimed.

Urging Donald Trump to accept the election result, Jim Kenney - the Mayor of Philadelphia - told the president to "put his big boy pants on" and admit he has lost.