NEW YORK: Disgraced R&B singer R Kelly was sentenced to 30 years behind bars on Wednesday for leading a decades-long effort to recruit and trap teenagers and women for sex.

WASHINGTON: Former US president Donald Trump angrily lunged at his Secret Service driver and grabbed at the steering wheel of his limousine in a bid to join the crowd as it marched on the Capitol on the day of the deadly insurrection, an aide testified yesterday.

BOGOTA: At least 51 inmates were killed and two dozen more injured early yesterday after a fire broke out during a prison riot in southwestern Colombia, the national prisons agency said.

WASHINGTON: An eight-year-old boy shot dead a baby and wounded her toddler sister while playing with his father’s gun in Florida last weekend, police said.

NEW YORK: A US federal judge on Wednesday was set to sentence disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly nearly a year after he was convicted of leading a decades-long effort to recruit and trap teenagers and women for sex.

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis  (pic) paid tribute Sunday to an Italian missionary killed after two decades of working with children in Haiti, describing her as a martyr.

BOGOTA: At least four people were killed and more than 300 injured on Sunday when the grandstand at a bullring in Colombia collapsed during a popular event at which members of the public face off with small bulls, officials said.

ELMAU CASTLE: The G7 group of rich democracies has announced an attempt to compete with China’s formidable Belt and Road Initiative by raising some $600 billion for global infrastructure programmes in poor countries.

NEW YORK: A stampede occurred at a Pride parade in the US city of New York yesterday, with hundreds of people attempting to flee after mistaking the sound of fireworks for gunfire, police said.

KYIV: Explosions rocked a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv Sunday morning as G7 leaders gathered in Germany to discuss their backing of Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, with a crucial Nato meeting set to follow in days.