Reuters Six American soldiers were killed in an Iranian strike against a military facility in Kuwait on Sunday, the US has confirmed.
US Central Command originally said three soldiers died in the incident but officials confirmed on Monday that the death toll had doubled, after one person succumbed to their injuries and two more bodies were found in the rubble.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed a US bunker in Kuwait was hit after a missile was launched during Iran's
Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent, Waco, Texas
The US strikes on Iran may be the biggest story around the world, but in Texas – where voters head to the polls on Tuesday to select the Democratic and Republican nominees in November's midterm congressional elections – it appears mostly to be an afterthought. At least for now.
At a banquet hall in the central Texas town of Waco on Monday, Ken Paxton, the Republican state attorney general running for the US
Osmond Chia and
Nick Edser , Business reporters
Getty Images Brent crude prices increased by 3.2% to $80 a barrel while the price of gas surged by 30%.
Stocks markets in Europe and Asia continued to fall as investors weighed the impact of the conflict on the financial markets and what it could mean for inflation and interest rates.
The UK's FTSE 100 index opened down 1.4%, while Germany's Dax index was 1.7% lower.
Gas prices rose
Stephen McDonell China correspondent, Tuntou
BBC In China, red lanterns could guide a traveller to safety in cold winter alleyways, be symbols of power outside an imperial hall, or act as a call to religious devotion when hung in a temple.
They are also absolutely synonymous with lunar new year celebrations right across the vast country and link today's Chinese people with the culture of their ancestors.
To imagine how many lanterns would be hung here, at any given time, is like trying to count how many trees would be
Alys Davies and
Gabriela Pomeroy
Handout When Will Bailey stepped off a plane in Dubai in the early hours of Saturday morning, it was supposed to mark a new chapter in his life.
The fitness influencer from the UK had made the trip with the intention of relocating his coaching business there and securing residency.
But within 24 hours of his arrival, he was documenting Iranian missile attacks on some of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s most exclusive and iconic neighbourhoods.
"That was metres away from us,"
Getty Images France is to boost its nuclear arsenal and extend the deterrent to cover other European countries, in a major development of its nuclear defence policy.
In a speech in Brittany, President Emmanuel Macron explained the changes as the response to an increasingly unstable strategic environment.
"The next 50 years will be an era of nuclear weapons," he said.
Speaking to naval officers in front of a nuclear submarine
Alice Cuddy , Senior international reporter, Beirut ,
Samantha Granville , Beirut and
Lucy Williamson , Middle East correspondent, Metula
Israel's military has said it has struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, after the Iranian-backed Shia group said it launched rockets and drones at the Israeli city of Haifa to avenge the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Lebanon's disaster management unit said 52 people were killed by Israeli strikes in the country on Monday
Ian Youngs Culture reporter
Kelly Schenk, Rijksmuseum A long lost painting by Rembrandt has been rediscovered and authenticated by experts, after its whereabouts were unknown for decades.
Rembrandt's Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, from 1633, was excluded from a list of the Dutch master's works in 1960, and disappeared after being sold to a private collector the following year.
But it resurfaced when its owners