A judge has set US President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case for January 10 - little over a week before he is due to return to the White House - but indicated he would not be jailed.

Mike Johnson won the vote to be speaker of the US House of Representatives yesterday after a delay caused by a handful of insurgent Republicans who revolted against him during the first vote of the 119th Congress.

The benefits of exercise are well known. But now researchers have found that just 22 minutes of daily activity that raises the heart rate can stave off 19 chronic diseases and conditions.

Terrorist Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar was captured on CCTV scoping out the streets of New Orleans just over an hour before he drove a pick-up truck into new year party-goers, killing at least 14.