News brief: Big stories of the day

The US and Russian leaders opened a historic summit in Helsinki on Monday, with Donald Trump promising an "extraordinary relationship" and Vladimir Putin saying it was high time to thrash out disputes around the world.

Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday made optimum use of the 'teary-eyed' video of Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and said, unlike Karnataka's failed coalition politics, during 2019 polls India should opt for a "strong and decisive political leadership" under Narendra Modi.

At least 20 people suffered injuries after a tent collapsed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Midnapore, West Bengal on Monday. 

A British man exposed to Novichok, four months after the same nerve agent was used against a former Russian spy nearby, had found it in a perfume bottle, his brother said.

Chloe Ayling, a 20-year-old-model from London has been in the news ever since she got kidnapped last year by a photographer who lured her into a modelling job in Milan. After being held captive in Italy for six days, the said photographer named Lukasz Herba dropped her at the British consulate in Milan. While this is a story that most of us who have been following her news are aware of, what was left out was her ordeal post-release from captivity.