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Oil prices have risen after Saudi Arabia said it would make cuts of a million barrels per day (bpd) in July. Other members of Opec+, a group of oil-producing countries, also agreed to continued cuts in production in an attempt to shore up flagging prices. Opec+ accounts for around 40% of the world's crude oil and its decisions can have a major impact on oil prices. In Asia trade on Monday, Brent crude oil rose by as much as 2.4% before settling at around $77 a barrel. Opec+ said production targets would drop by a further 1.4 million bpd from 2024. The seven hour-long meeting on Sunday of the oil-rich nations came against a backdrop of falling energy prices. Oil prices soared when Russia invaded Ukraine last year, but are now back at levels seen before the conflict began.

US fighter jets scrambled at supersonic speed to intercept an unresponsive plane as it flew over Washington DC on Sunday. The F-16 jets caused a loud sonic boom that was heard around the region, prompting concern from some residents. They were deployed after the plane entered some of the most heavily restricted airspace in the country and failed to respond to the authorities. It then crashed in a rural area of Virginia after a rapid descent. Police and rescuers reached the wreckage near the George Washington National Forest by foot hours later and said no survivors had been found. Four people were reportedly on board. It is not clear why the pilot was unresponsive or what caused the Cessna Citation small aircraft to come down. Military officials speaking on condition on anonymity said it was not shot down and the fighter jets did not cause the crash. US aviation officials said the plane took off from Elizabethton, Tennessee at 13:14 local time on Sunday and was heading to Long Island in New York.

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Auniversal basic income of £1,600 a month is set to be trialled in England for the first time under “exciting” plans drawn up by researchers. Under the pilot programme, 30 people in two areas would be paid an unconditional lump sum each month for two years, with the effects monitored to understand how it affects their lives. Advocates of a basic income say the policy would provide security to people both in and out of work and eradicate poverty for good, while critics say it is expensive and that support should be targeted. More about Universal Basic Income

It’s another normal day in the Furnish-John household. Daddy Elton has woken up in his tour hotel in Germany to check in with Papa David to see if our sons safely got to school this morning. Every day I drop the boys off at the school gates, they bound into the building full of confidence and laughter. Parents and school staff give me a friendly wave and smile before I head into the office for another day’s work. This blissful routine was unimaginable when I was growing up in Canada. I tried to come out to my mother when I was 21, but was met with a cascade of tears, emotion and fear. How would I ever find happiness? The simple things that brought mum so much joy – through marriage and parenting – would be unavailable to me.

One of the largest Catholic advocacy groups in the nation is encouraging parents and concerned citizens to remove sexualized books for children at their local libraries, arguing taxpayer-funded institutions shouldn't provide "pornography" to children. CatholicVote launched its second annual "Hide the Pride" event June 1, to coincide with libraries and businesses across the country prominently displaying rainbow flags and pro-LGBTQ content for gay Pride Month. Fox News Digital previously reported how dozens of libraries in blue states have ramped up Pride celebrations and content for children this year.

If you've ever discovered one of your devices had been infected with malware, you know how disruptive and frustrating it can be to attempt to unravel the dirty deed left by a hacker. However, none of us expect brand-new devices we've just purchased to have any malicious dangers on them right out of the box. Unfortunately, this has become the case for many Android phone and TV owners whose devices came with malware pre-installed on them.

Former FBI Director James Comey said in an interview that aired Sunday that he predicts prosecutors are facing "intense pressure" to come up with a charging decision with regard to former President Donald Trump before he can possibly become the GOP nominee for president in 2024. Comey, who was abruptly fired by Trump in 2017 while leading the FBI investigation into whether Trump and his allies colluded with Russian in the 2016 election, recently sat down with President Joe Biden's former White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, for an interview that aired Sunday on Psaki's MSNBC show.

President Biden's officials reportedly "leave him alone" as often as they can on the weekends and tend to adjust his schedule to avoid tiring "an aging president," according to the New York Times. The outlet reported that officials have said they try to leave the president alone on weekends and tend to schedule all public appearances between 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. A Democrat who chose to remain anonymous told the New York Times that Biden's age was a popular discussion topic among prominent members of the party. "At a small dinner earlier this year of former Democratic senators and governors, all of them in Mr. Biden’s generation, everyone at the table agreed he was too old to run again. Local leaders often call the White House to inquire about his health," the outlet reported.

President Joe Biden will “at some point” meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, as the two countries work to reset normal relations amid what has been an extremely tumultuous and tense year in the relationship. “We will, I hope, soon see American officials engaging at senior levels with their Chinese counterparts over the coming months to continue that work. And then, at some point, we will see President Biden and President Xi come back together again,” Sullivan told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview on “GPS” that aired Sunday

The room is vast, cold and the stench of death hangs in the air. Behind a plywood partition are rows upon rows of empty body bags. Sanitation workers are sweeping the water that's melted from countless blocks of ice. This is where the bodies of the dead from the worst crash this century have been brought to. It is a chilling and unforgettable scene. Read more: India train crash: How safe is the country's rail network? India train crash: Hospital resembles a war zone in town on front line of overwhelming tragedy Harish Patel has watched as streams of victims were brought into the makeshift morgue in his NOCCI Business Park - the only place large enough to temporarily house the dead.

While they are being promoted around the world as a crucial weapon in reducing carbon emissions, solar panels only have a lifespan of up to 25 years. Experts say billions of panels will eventually all need to be disposed of and replaced. "The world has installed more than one terawatt of solar capacity. Ordinary solar panels have a capacity of about 400W, so if you count both rooftops and solar farms, there could be as many as 2.5 billion solar panels.," says Dr Rong Deng, an expert in solar panel recycling at the University of New South Wales in Australia. According to the British government, there are tens of millions of solar panels in the UK. But the specialist infrastructure to scrap and recycle them is lacking.

China's defence minister has said war with the US would be an "unbearable disaster" for the world in his first major speech since taking on the role. At a security summit, General Li Shangfu said "some countries" were intensifying an arms race in Asia. But he said the world was big enough for both China and the US, and the two superpowers should seek common ground. Earlier the US alleged "unsafe" manoeuvres by a Chinese destroyer near a US warship in the Taiwan strait. On Saturday the US navy said a Chinese destroyer sailed "in an unsafe manner" near an American warship as it transited the Taiwan Strait with Canadian vessels. China criticised both countries for "deliberately provoking risk". The US and Canada said they were sailing where international law allows. Gen Li, who became defence minister in March, accused the US of a "Cold War mentality" and said this was "greatly increasing security risks".