The doctors had implored him to ease his schedule and avoid the crowds to stave off infection. Pope Francis agreed up to a point - but it was simply not in his nature to comply fully.

The head of Israel&s domestic intelligence service said yesterday that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu&s bid to sack him followed his refusal to fulfil requests that included spying on Israeli protesters and disrupting the leader&s corruption trial.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be the first country to use artificial intelligence to write and review laws.

The gunman who killed 23 people when he targeted Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart store in Texas in 2019 has pleaded guilty to capital murder and was scolded by a judge over the racist attack in El Paso near the US-Mexico border.