US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the US sank an Iranian warship near Sri Lanka with a torpedo on Wednesday.

British police on Wednesday arrested three men on suspicion of spying for China, including the husband of a lawmaker from the ruling Labour party.

Members of the Iranian intelligence community quietly signalled a willingness to explore talks with the United States during the early days of the ongoing conflict with Washington and Israel, according to a report by The New York Times on Wednesday.

At least 87 people were killed after a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, news agency AFP reported today. The warship, IRIS Dena, had participated in a naval exercise in India just weeks ago.

Almost no political family in Nepal has left as deep an imprint on the nation's democratic evolution as the family of late Madan Bhandari and former President Bidya Devi Bhandari.

Russia is ready to divert oil to India to offset Middle East supply disruptions, with about 9.5 million barrels of Russian crude in vessels near Indian waters and able to arrive within weeks, an industry source with direct knowledge told Reuters.

The Iranian Navy warship IRIS Dena that was sunk by an American submarine near Sri Lanka today while returning from a naval exercise in India was not a first-time visitor to this part of the world.

IRIS Dena was returning from India after participating in the 2026 International Fleet Review in Visakhapatnam when it was reportedly attacked and later sank off the southern coast of Sri Lanka.

These things usually appear in memoirs, long after wars and battles end. One such moment likely unfolded today, if the details shared by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) are true.

Sri Lanka's foreign ministry said that the military had rescued 32 people on board the sinking Iranian ship. Dr. Anil Jasinghe, a top health ministry official, says one of them is in critical condition, seven are receiving emergency treatment.

Israel-Iran War live updates: An Iranian ballistic missile hit the United States' military base at Al-Udeid on Tuesday, Qatar's defence ministry said, as Tehran struck targets across the Gulf in retaliation for US-Israeli attacks.

Nepal heads into the high-stakes March 5 general election, but one of the country's most influential political families, the Deuba-Rana clan of the Nepali Congress, won't be on the ballot.

High-resolution satellite imagery accessed by NDTV shows the scale of destruction inflicted on Tehran after a wave of coordinated American and Israeli strikes. The images -- captured before and after the bombardment -- show damage across sites.

One of the officials, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was carried out by a US military submarine.

A ballistic missile fired from Iran and heading into Turkish airspace was destroyed by NATO air and missile defence systems in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.

The work done by a small Iranian suicide drone in Saudi Arabia may draw Pakistan, a country thousands of kilometres away, to the war in the Middle East.

Israeli experts have suggested that external assistance may have played a role, raising speculation about possible transfers of military know-how from Russia or China.

Iran announced that a state funeral for supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which had been planned for Wednesday evening in Tehran, was postponed "in anticipation of unprecedented turnout," state television reported.

Iran has said it will allow only Chinese vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz as an expression of gratitude for Beijing's stand towards Tehran since the war in the Middle East began, sources have said

Oil giant Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura, home to its largest domestic refinery, was struck again by a drone today, a Saudi Defence Ministry spokesperson said.