Amid a controversy over US Vice President JD Vance's comments about his wife's religion, Indian-origin Congressman Ro Khanna has come out in support of Second Lady Usha Vance, and called her an "accomplished daughter of immigrants."

US President Donald Trump was all praise for his Russian and Chinese counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, when asked who among the two global leaders was tougher to deal with.

With Harmanpreet Kaur as the captainand led by stellar performances from Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, and Smriti Mandhana, India produced a dominant all-round display to claim their first-ever world title in women's cricket.

Four suspects in the Louvre heist have been handed preliminary charges and incarcerated, including three believed to be members of the team who forced its way into the museum, leaving with $102 million worth crown jewels.

The Republican claimed the US was "doing very well against China" but acknowledged that Beijing has a "power" of rare earth minerals over Washington.

Questions have swirled about whether Trump would allow shipments of a version of the Blackwell to China since August, when he suggested he might allow sales of a scaled-down version of Nvidia's next-generation advanced GPU chip in China.

Buckingham Palace made the announcement last week, leaving Andrew to now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

Trump has accelerated power moves, taking revenge on his political opponents, sending more troops into more US cities, muzzling the media and asserting control over every lever of government.

Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump's administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid programme, using contingency funds during the government shutdown

Eastern and northeastern Afghanistan, especially regions along its borders with Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan, are particularly prone to earthquakes.

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that, for now, he is not considering a deal that would allow Ukraine to obtain long-range Tomahawk missiles for use against Russia.

Israel on Sunday signalled it could intensify operations in Lebanon against Hezbollah, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused of rearming, urging Beirut to disarm the Iran-backed group.

A top US congressional Democrat on Sunday accused President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans of choosing to "weaponize hunger," as a prolonged government shutdown disrupts critical food benefits for millions of low-income Americans.

One of the monkeys that escaped last week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi roadway was shot and killed early Sunday by a woman who says she feared for the safety of her children.

The report called on world leaders to increase pandemic preparedness by investing in "social protection mechanisms" within their countries while also tackling global inequality, including through debt restructuring for developing countries.

President Donald Trump sees tariffs - or the threat of them - as a powerful tool to bend nations to his will.

US President Donald Trump recently ordered new tests of the American nuclear weapons system. However, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has clarified that the testing will not involve nuclear explosions at this time.

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring about 260, authorities said, with the death count likely to rise.

Police arrested two British citizens on suspicion of attempted murder, but later released one after concluding that "he was not involved".

Israel said on Sunday it had received the remains of three additional captives from Hamas as part of the ongoing hostage-prisoner exchange under a US-brokered ceasefire agreement for Gaza.