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Champions-elect Inter Milan were held to a 2-2 draw at Torino on Sunday, with the Serie A leaders letting slip a two-goal lead and leaving the title race ticking over with four rounds left, Reuters reported. 

Inter move to 79 points, 10 ahead of Napoli who won 4-0 at Cremonese on Friday. AC Milan are three points off Napoli in third ahead of their home game against fourth-placed Juventus later on Sunday. Torino are 13th on 41 points.

Inter appeared to be cruising after Marcus Thuram put them in front in the 23rd minute and Yann Bisseck doubled their lead 16 minutes after the break with another header but Torino clawed their way back into the game.

Crisis-hit Chelsea beat Leeds United 1-0 at Wembley on Sunday to reach the FA Cup final, a first-half goal from Argentine midfielder Enzo Fernandez earning them a clash with Manchester City in the showpiece match next month, Reuters reported. 

Fernandez slipped between defenders to nod home a cross from Portugal winger Pedro Neto in the 23rd minute of the semi-final.

Eight-times winners Chelsea, who sacked coach Liam Rosenior on Wednesday after five Premier League defeats in a row, dominated the first half but had to rely on Robert Sanchez to keep Leeds at bay. He pulled off fine saves in each half from Brenden Aaronson and Anton Stach.

For the first time in the Himalayan district, Jumla, e-pension services have been introduced for permanent government employees. 

Manjit Achhami, the District Treasury Controller Office (DTCO) in Jumla, announced that the e-pension service initiated by the Ministry of Finance of the federal government has been implemented in Jumla. 

Under this service, Kamal Thapa Kshetri, an agricultural officer from the Agriculture Development Office who retired from Chandannath Municipality, has become the first beneficiary. 

The necessity to travel to Kathmandu has been eliminated with the introduction of the e-pension service, resulting in savings of both time and costs, Achhami said. 

The presence of westerly and local winds, along with a low-pressure area in the lower atmosphere near eastern Nepal, is having a partial impact on the weather. 

As per the Meteorological Forecasting Division, the weather is anticipated to be generally cloudy in the Koshi, Bagmati, and Gandaki Provinces, and partly cloudy in the hilly and mountainous areas of Lumbini, Karnali, and Far-Western Provinces, as well as in the Madhes province. 

There is a likelihood of light to moderate rain or thundershowers, accompanied by temporary gusty winds, occurring in several locations within the Lumbini, Karnali, and Far western Provinces.

Goods valued at Rs 31.3 billion have been imported from Rasuwagadhi Customs point during the first nine months of the current fiscal year. 

Rasuwagadhi serves as a crucial center for Nepal-China trade. 

Tulsi Prasad Bhattarai, Chief Customs Officer of the Rasuwa Customs Office in Timure, said that Rs 6.42 billion has been generated in revenue over the nine-month period from the evaluation of imported goods. 

He noted that trade continues to occur at the trade point despite challenging geographical conditions and natural barriers. 

The imports from the customs points include roll-cloth, ready-made garments, electric vehicles, construction materials for hydropower and infrastructure development projects, and industrial raw materials, machinery components for industries as well as equipment for the 'fast track' project being developed by the Nepal Army.  

Similarly, a large scale of apples, garlic, mills and other edible items are imported via the border point. 

From Nepal to China, goods worth approximately Rs 6.5 million have been exported, encompassing handicraft items, traditional Nepali attire, bamboo beads, 'packed' dry grass used for rice in the Tibetan region, rice, and biscuits. 

Despite the constraints in production capacity, the demand for Nepali goods in export markets is on the rise. 

Trade experienced significant disruption for a period following the destruction of the Miteri Bridge due to severe flooding in Lhendekhola on 8 July 2025. 

The customs office reported that regular import-export operations resumed only on December 2 2025, following delays in the completion of the bridge's reconstruction.

Mali's defence minister has been killed in an apparent suicide truck bombing on his residence near the capital Bamako, BBC reported. 

Multiple news outlets reported the death of Sadio Camara, part of a wave of coordinated attacks by jihadist militants and separatists carried out across the country.

State TV confirmed the death several hours later, saying he died of wounds received while engaging with the attackers. Reports say the head of the military junta, Gen Assimi Goita, was moved to a safe location after his home was targeted.

Iran’s top diplomat, Abbas Araghchi, has left Islamabad for Moscow, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, as mediators hope to keep the prospect of more Tehran-Washington talks alive, Aljazeera reported. 

Araghchi sandwiched a trip to Muscat, Oman, in between visits to the Pakistani capital, leaving on Sunday to be in Russia the following day. But there was no indication that direct talks between Iran and the United States would resume.

However, in a sign that indirect efforts were ongoing, the Fars news agency reported that Iran had transmitted “written messages” to the Americans via mediator Pakistan, which were “about some of the red lines of the Islamic Republic of Iran, including nuclear issues and the Strait of Hormuz”.

"I can't imagine that there's any profession that is more dangerous," Donald Trump said of his job, just hours after he was at the centre of yet another major security incident, BBC reported. 

While a small army of Secret Service agents make the US president arguably the world's most protected person, keeping him safe is proving to be no easy task.

First there was the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2024 in which a bullet grazed his ear. Just 64 days later, Trump was again the target of a would-be assassin as he played a round on his Florida golf course. 

And now, hours after gunshots shattered the revelry of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Hilton hotel in the nation's capital, Trump's security is once again under scrutiny.