Pope Francis has appointed the first woman to head a major Vatican office as he tries to bring more female ­influence into the leadership of the Catholic Church.

The leader of Austria&s Freedom Party received a mandate to form a new government, which would be the first headed by the far right since World War II if he succeeds.

Three Israelis were killed yesterday and several injured in a shooting attack on a car and bus near the settlement of Kedumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israel&s national ambulance service Magen David Adom (MDA) said.

Exactly four years after a mob of Donald Trump&s supporters perpetrated the worst attack on the US Capitol since Major General Robert Ross ordered British soldiers to set it ablaze more than two centuries before, US vice-president Kamala Harris presided over a joint session of Congress to give Trump the peaceful transfer of power she was denied after the 2020 election.