Pakistan closed its air space for Indian airlines and rejected New Delhi&s suspension of a critical water sharing treaty yesterday in retaliation for India&s response to a deadly Islamist militant attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir.

From patrols on the River Tiber to surveillance drones and snipers deployed around St Peter&s Square, Rome is preparing to throw a thoroughly modern security shield around the ancient rituals of a papal funeral.

Only 15pc of young people believe the US is on the right track under the leadership of president Donald Trump, a new Harvard youth poll has found.

Hovering in the doorway of her roommate&s bedroom one evening in July 2006, TV production assistant Miriam Haley said Harvey Weinstein & her boss & had forcibly performed oral sex on her, Ms Haley&s then roommate testified yesterday at the ex-movie mogul&s retrial.