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Manchester City maintained their squeeze on Arsenal at the top of the Premier League with a 3-0 victory at Crystal Palace on Sunday, a result that keeps Pep Guardiola's side lurking two points behind the leaders and ready to pounce, Reuters reported. 

Aston Villa came from behind to win 3-2 at West Ham United to remain in the thick of the title race, while Nottingham Forest trounced error-prone visitors Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 for their fourth win in six league games.

Sunderland earned derby bragging rights with a 1-0 home victory over Newcastle United as the North-East rivals met in the league for the first time in nearly a decade, while Leeds United climbed three points above the danger zone after a 1-1 draw at Brentford, according to Reuters. 

The candidacy filing of the candidates for the election of the new leadership is taking place today in the ongoing 11th National Congress of the CPN-UML, according to the Chairman of UML Central Election Commission Dr Bijaya Subba.

The namelist of the voters was made public last evening. The timeline to lodge complaints over the voters' namelist was set until 9 this morning.

The final namelist of the voters will be published at 10:15 am today and the candidates will be given the nomination form from 9 am to 12 this afternoon.

The candidates can register their forms from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm and the preliminary namelist of the candidates will be released at 2:30 pm. 

Dr Subba said that complaints on the candidates could be filed from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm today itself. 

Likewise, the final namelist of the candidates will be made public at 6 this evening, Dr Subba said.

As per the schedule, the voting will be held at Bhrikutimandap in Kathmandu from 11am to 5 pm on December 16. 

The voting will be conducted by electronic voting machines. 

Incumbent Chairman KP Sharma Oli and senior Vice Chairman Ishwor Pokhrel are vying for the top post in the UML.

The building of Metropolitan Police Circle, Boudha, which was torched and damaged during the Gen-Z protests on September 9, was rebuilt with support from the local residents and different organizations. 

The policing services were delivered from the new office building from Sunday.

Inspector General of Nepal Police Dan Bahadur Karki inaugurated the new office building on Sunday. 

Mayor of Gorkaneshwor Municipality Dipak Kumar Risal, Chief of Police Range Kathmandu Ramesh Thapa and several others were present at the event.

On the occasion, the speakers have urged the authority to book those involved in vandalism and arson of public property adding that CCTV footage could be instrumental to confirm the wrongdoers. 

With just 80 days remaining for the  House of Representatives (HoR) elections scheduled for March 5, the Election Commission has made some new provisions in the Election Code of Conduct-2082. 

As per the new provisions in the Election Code of Conduct-2082, all spending and income should be done through banking systems and all bills and vouchers of the expenses should be kept safe. 

The EC stated that such a provision was aimed at ensuring transparency in the source of election spending.   

Similarly, the political parties and the candidates need to release the estimated costs for election campaigns and the sources of such amounts while filing their nominations. 

The candidates should open a separate bank account and carry out the transactions solely from the same account for the election campaigning purpose, according to the new Election Code of Conduct.

Seventeen people were killed and 20 were injured after a bus carrying school children fell off a cliff in a rural area in northern Colombia, the local governor said on Sunday night, Reuters reported. 

In a post on X earlier in the day, the governor of Antioquia, Andres Julian, said the bus was traveling from the Caribbean town of Tolu to Medellin after a school trip and was carrying students from the Antioqueno High School.

The students had been celebrating their graduation on the beach, he added on Sunday night, according to Reuters. 

Two alleged gunmen who killed 15 people at a Jewish celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach were a father and son, police said on Monday, as Australia began mourning victims of its worst gun violence in almost 30 years, Reuters reported. 

The father, a 50-year-old, was killed at the scene, taking the number of dead to 16, while his 24-year-old son was in a critical condition in hospital, police said at a press conference on Monday. Officials have described Sunday's shooting as a targeted antisemitic attack.

Forty people remain in hospital following the attack, including two police officers who are in a serious but stable condition, police said. The victims were aged between 10 and 87, according to Reuters. 

Two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter have been killed in Syria in an ambush by an Islamic State (IS) gunman, the US Central Command (Centcom) has said, BBC reported. 

Officials said three other service members were injured in the attack, during which the gunman was "engaged and killed". Syria's state news said two Syrian service personnel were also injured.

US President Donald Trump wrote on social media that it was "an ISIS attack" against the US and Syria and said there would be "a very serious retaliation". Syria's president sent condolences to Trump after the attack, according to BBC. 

Chile has elected the far-right wing Jose Antonio Kast to be its next president, after an election campaign that was dominated by themes of security, immigration and crime, BBC reported. 

Kast won decisively with more than 58% of the vote in his third attempt at running for president.

It marks the biggest shift to the right since the end of Chile's military dictatorship in 1990. Kast has openly praised Chile's former right-wing dictator, Augusto Pinochet, according to BBC.