External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday met US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Washington DC as part of an ongoing three-day visit to the United States.

The first husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with killing his wife at their Delaware home in late December, authorities announced in a news release Tuesday.

The most prominent son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, has been killed, sources close to the family, his lawyer Khaled el-Zaydi and Libyan media said on Tuesday.

Renowned American intellectual Noam Chomsky privately sympathized with Jeffrey Epstein over what he described as the "horrible way" the press treated the late sex offender, urging him in a 2019 email to lie low and avoid media "vultures."

Spain will seek to ban social media for under-16s to protect them from harmful content such as pornography and violence, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday, in the latest such move by governments.

As a teenager in southern India, Susai Jesu led 4:30 a.m. prayer services in his small Catholic village before the farmers went into the fields. He directed the choir, helped at Mass and soon began training for the priesthood.

Multiple AI-generated photos falsely claiming to show New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a child and his mother, filmmaker Mira Nair, with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

British maritime security firm Vanguard Tech said Tuesday that a US-flagged tanker was approached and challenged by Iranian gunboats in the Strait of Hormuz before continuing on its way.

In France, civil servants will ditch Zoom and Teams for a homegrown video conference system. Soldiers in Austria are using open source office software to write reports after the military dropped Microsoft Office.

Russia fired around 450 long-range drones and 70 missiles of various types at Ukraine in a major attack overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday.

Elon Musk's flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualised images of people even when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent, Reuters has found.

A British couple was directed to leave India after they pasted stickers in support of Palestine against Israel at various public locations in Rajasthan's Ajmer.

A cherub in a Roman church bears a striking resemblance to Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni, sparking a scandal. Italian newspapers published the photographs of the Meloni-esque cherub, which drew harsh reactions from the public.

A US stealth warplane shot down an Iranian drone that "aggressively" approached an American aircraft carrier as it sailed in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday, a US military spokesman said.

Pakistan on Tuesday said that it has been invited to participate in Iran-US talks in Turkey aimed at diffusing tensions between the two nations. Foreign ministers from Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have also been invited.

Witnesses reported the elephant grabbed him with its trunk, slammed him to the ground, and stomped on him.

The UK's former ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, is stepping down as a member of the upper house of parliament, it was announced Tuesday, as a scandal deepened over his ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In a significant breakthrough after months of tense negotiations and public sparring, Washington and New Delhi have sealed a trade deal that slashes US tariffs on Indian goods from 50 per cent to 18 per cent.

France summoned billionaire Elon Musk to a "voluntary interview" as cybercrime authorities on Tuesday searched the French offices of his social media network X, the Paris public prosecutor's office said.

India responded to a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi being stolen from Australia's Melbourne. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that India has raised the matter with Australian authorities.