Continuing the great and honourable tradition of finding the local angle in any story, no matter how large, here's Scotland's Buchan Observer.

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Donald Trump famously owns a golf course in the area.

BBC Radio 5 live

Hundreds of callers got in touch during BBC Radio 5 live's Your Call to give their reaction to Donald Trump's election as US president.

Sarah from Manchester said she had “tears in her eyes” thinking of her children’s future, whereas Eddie from Country Durham welcomed Mr Trump’s pledge to make peace with Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

Pennsylvania was certainly one of the surprises of the night. Until Trump, Republicans had not won there since 1988 and many polls were giving the state to Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Watch voters there celebrating the "fantastic" result.

President Obama has called Donald Trump to congratulate him and invite him to a meeting at the White House on Thursday to discuss the transition of power.

Obama also phoned Hillary Clinton to congratulate her on her campaign.

The president will make a statement on Wednesday at the White House "to discuss the election results and what steps we can take as a country to come together after this hard-fought election season", the White House press secretary said in a statement.

Full statement below.

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New York magazine, external describes how the night unfolded at the Trump camp in New York:

"While virtually the entire media establishment was predicting Hillary Clinton was on track to win the election, Trump’s team remained 'nervous but optimistic', in the words of one adviser, that their man would pull off a historic victory."

The mood changed when Trump's victory in Florida was confirmed, the report says. A campaign manager sent a text message saying: “Humility to Euphoria". 

The report continues: "An air of vengeance was palpable last night. There were of course the chants of 'Lock her up!' from the crowd ...  One senior Trump aide emailed me: 'I told you: revolt'."

Trump has issued his first tweet since winning the election. In it he says the "forgotten man and woman will never be forgotten again". 

He has also updated his Twitter profile to reflect his new status as president-elect.  

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Very few people thought Trump would actually run, then he did. They thought he wouldn't climb in the polls, then he did. They said he wouldn't win any primaries, then he did. They said he wouldn't win the Republican nomination, then he did.

Now he's been elected US president.

The BBC's Anthony Zurcher has identified five reasons for his unexpected victory.

Read them here.

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has said there is "no possibility" Donald Trump can reverse the nuclear deal brokered between the US and Iran under President Obama. 

"Iran's understanding in the nuclear deal was that the accord was not concluded with one country or government but was approved by a resolution of the UN Security Council and there is no possibility that it can be changed by a single government," Rouhani told his cabinet, according to Iranian state television.    

Trump was critical of the deal during his campaign and threatened to tear it up.  

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Melania Trump's birthplace in Slovenia is celebrating her husband's victory in the US presidential elections in style, Slovene TV reports. 

The Mayor of Sevnica, Srecko Ocvirk, is hosting a street party with wine, local delicacies and music by the local folk music band Slavcki - The Nightingales - who performed a tune specially written for Melania Trump. 

Mayor Ocvirk said "people are coming and going, expressing their happiness", adding that "Melania will now put Sevnica on the world map".

Quentin Somerville
Middle East Correspondent in Mosul, Iraq

On the ground, in the battle to capture Mosul from so-called Islamic State, Donald Trump's election will make little difference.

The military campaign is advanced and IS in retreat. Despite his criticism of the strategy used against IS, in Iraq at least, it is delivering results. 

In Syria, it is a different case. Trump has already questioned the US partnership with moderate rebels. Across the Middle East, he is encouraging more co-operation with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's staunch ally, Russia.

In the short term, some suggest it might encourage Moscow to begin its bombing campaign on rebel-held Aleppo sooner rather than later. The balance of power in Syria's war - a proxy war as much as a civil war - may be about to change dramatically. 

An interesting look from the Washington Post on how Wednesday's front page - or 'A1' - evolved.

Newsday correspondents have called in with reaction and analysis from around the world, from China, to Russia, to the UK.

Listen below.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier has proposed a meeting of EU foreign ministers, Jenny Hill reports. He described Trump's victory as "not the result I or the German people wanted".

Russian president Vladimir Putin has made his first official statement on Trump's win.

Via spokesman Dmitry Peskov, he said: "Trump's first statements give us hope that steps towards improving relations between the USA and Russia are possible."

"The US election result does not mean that all contentious issues in relations between Moscow and Washington will be resolved. The main thing is the intention to resolve them through dialogue."

Russia was widely thought to have been supporting Trump during the election campaign. US officials say they believe state-sponsored Russian hackers were behind a leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee which damaged Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Trump praised Putin, during the campaign, saying he was glad to have been praised by the Russian leader.

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Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

The Washington Post journalist, Anne Applebaum, wrote a few months ago that we were a few elections away from "the end of the West as we know it". 

She told the Today programme "I think we are now here." 

The Huffington Post has announced that it will no longer attach a note to its stories about the US presidential election calling Donald Trump a "serial liar", "racist", and "xenophobe".

The news website began making the extraordinary addition back in January.

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Huffpost's Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim said in a statement, published by Politico, that they might put it back. 

"The thinking is that (assuming he wins) that he’s now president and we’re going to start with a clean slate... If he governs in a racist, misogynistic way, we reserve the right to add it back on. This would be giving respect to the office of the presidency which Trump and his backers never did."

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the UK Labour Party, has issued a statement called Trump's victory a "global wake-up call".

Corbyn, who pulled off a shock victory of his own to become Labour leader last year, also said Trump was "clearly wrong" is his answers to "the big questions facing America". 

Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, said Donald Trump's victory was "great news" and showed that "democracy is still alive".

Orban has drawn widespread international criticism, including from Hillary Clinton, over his approach to the refugee crisis and weakening of media freedoms in Hungary.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has also congratulated Trump, saying he "looks forward to working with the incoming administration".

Duterte was heavily criticised by President Obama over a brutal drugs crackdown in the Philippines. He has also courted controversy with praise for Hitler and a vow to kill 100,000 drug dealers.

Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda has written to Trump, saying: "Polish-US ties are a great example of a strategic partnership based on common values and freedom, which is so dear to Poles, Americans and to me personally.”

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Donald Trump pulled off a one-point win in Pennsylvania, making him the first Republican to win the state since George HW Bush in 1988.

The BBC's Jessica Lussenhop was there to watch Trump supporters reacting to the surprise victory.

As news rippled through the room that AP had called the state of Pennsylvania, which would have put the final nail in the coffin of the Clinton campaign, the partygoers grew jubilant.

"Call it!" they began shouting at televisions mounted on the walls, "USA! USA! USA."

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