The head of the UN Aids agency has said the number of new HIV infections could jump by more than six times by 2029 if American support for the biggest Aids programme is dropped - warning that millions of people could die and more resistant strains of the disease could emerge.

The European Commission said on Monday it would react to protect EU interests after US president Donald Trump's announcement of impending metals tariffs, but said it would not respond until it had detailed or written clarification of the measures.

The Vatican's main charity has voiced outrage at what it called the &reckless& and &unhuman& U.S. plans to gut USAID.

A father who stabbed his 14-year-old daughter in the heart while they were "play-fighting" in the kitchen has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years after he was convicted of her murder.