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Inter Milan and AC Milan's bid to to get a new stadium built on the site of the San Siro was boosted on Tuesday after the mayor of Milan said he hoped to sell the iconic old ground to the Serie A clubs before the summer.

The world's biggest iceberg appears to have run aground roughly 70 kilometres from a remote Antarctic island, potentially sparing the crucial wildlife haven from being hit, a research organisation said Tuesday.

As the world's biggest wireless technology fair, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is packed with manufacturers showing off their latest gadgets and inventions.

Ukraine on Tuesday sought to maintain bonds with Washington after President Donald Trump ordered US military aid deliveries be suspended following a public clash with counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.

Skipper Steve Smith and Alex Carey hit half-centuries as Australia made 264 all out against India in the first semi-final of the Champions Trophy in Dubai on Tuesday.

At a bustling Shanghai trade fair, exporters of goods ranging from plush toys to chainmail bikinis expressed growing unease at the escalating US-China trade war as new US tariffs took hold on Tuesday.

Ukrainians in Kyiv and soldiers on the front lines were in shock on Tuesday and grappling with a sense of betrayal after US President Donald Trump's decision to suspend military aid.

Prayers at home and smaller gatherings to break the fast -- Muslims in a city recently captured by Rwanda-backed fighters in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo face a more subdued holy month of Ramadan this year.

Stock markets slid Tuesday on trade war fears as world powers hit out at the start of US tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada that risk being extended to Europe.

Pope Francis was breathing without a mask on Tuesday after suffering two bouts of acute respiratory failure, the Vatican said as the leader of the world's Catholics spent his 19th day in hospital with pneumonia.

Skipper Mitchell Santner said New Zealand have endured some "tough travel" but insisted they are raring to go for their Champions Trophy semi-final against South Africa on Wednesday in Lahore.

Sporting military uniforms and multi-coloured traditional garb, delegates from all four corners of China descended on the capital on Tuesday for the country's largest annual political event -- a red-carpet cameo for the ruling elite.

With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser al-Shaalan studied the names of professions in a Chinese textbook, one of thousands of Saudi children now learning the language at school.

France voiced opposition Tuesday to seizing frozen Russian assets to fund a European military spending boost for Ukraine, arguing such a move would be against international agreements.

More than a dozen hardcore fans of AC Milan and Inter Milan go on trial on Tuesday facing a raft of charges relating to organised crime following a probe into the alleged illegal activities of the Serie A teams' so-called "ultras" groups.

Hundreds evacuated from dozens of flooded neighbourhoods around Jakarta on Tuesday as torrential rains pounded the Indonesian capital and its surrounding satellite cities, causing several rivers to overflow.

Markets fell in volatile trade Tuesday on fears of a trade war after China announced fresh tariffs on US imports in retaliation for President Donald Trump's latest levies.

Oil giant Saudi Aramco posted a drop in annual profits on Tuesday as lower prices and volumes hit the lynchpin of the kingdom's ambitious economic reform plans.

Pope Francis, hospitalised with pneumonia in both lungs, slept all night and was resting on Tuesday after suffering two bouts of acute respiratory failure the day before, the Vatican said.

The husband of Dolly Parton, Carl Dean, died Monday aged 82, the country music superstar said, after nearly 60 years of marriage kept out of the spotlight despite the singer's chart-topping fame.

A Thai court on Tuesday accepted a class-action lawsuit filed by hundreds of fishermen seeking $73 million in damages from a agribusiness giant over invasive blackchin tilapia, a representative of the Thai lawyers' council said.

Asian markets recouped some of their early losses in volatile trade on Tuesday after China announced fresh tariffs on US imports in retaliation to President Donald Trump's latest levies.

Pope Francis, hospitalised with penuemonia in both lungs, slept "all night long and continues to rest" after suffering two bouts of acute respiratory failure, the Vatican said on Tuesday.

Japanese startup ispace on Tuesday set a June 6 target touchdown date for its Moon lander, following the success of its rocket "rideshare" buddy, a spacecraft from a US firm.

Lema Tefera's voice broke as he described losing four children to malaria in just one month -- deaths that could likely have been prevented if not for the conflict in Ethiopia's Oromia region.

Under a dry, smoggy sky, a beekeeper in Pakistan's Punjab province carefully loads boxes filled with tens of thousands of bees onto the back of a truck.

Mounting trade wars between the United States and its largest economic partners deepened on Tuesday as US tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China kicked in, sparking swift retaliation from Beijing and Ottawa.

Taiwanese chip-making giant TSMC will invest at least $100 billion in the United States to build "cutting edge" manufacturing facilities, President Donald Trump said on Monday, announcing the latest blockbuster financial pledge by a private company since his return to office.

The Japanese parent company of 7-Eleven said Tuesday that a buyout bid from a Canadian convenience store rival was still on the table despite a report that it planned to reject the multibillion-dollar offer.

Donald Trump will promise a "renewal of the American dream" on Tuesday in his first address to Congress since returning to office, laying out a vision of extended presidential power and a reshaped world order.

Under a dry, smoggy sky, a beekeeper in Pakistan's Punjab province carefully loads boxes filled with tens of thousands of bees onto the back of a truck.

Asian markets tumbled on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump hiked tariffs on Chinese imports and warned that levies on Mexico and Canada could not be averted.