News brief: Big stories of the day

Fuel prices continued to go up on Sunday. After crossing the Rs 80 mark in Delhi on Saturday, petrol prices went up 12 paise a litre on Sunday.

Japan's Naomi Osaka has defeated Serena Williams 6-2, 6-4 in the final of US Open 2018 to win her maiden Grand Slam title.

Hundreds of trucks carrying thousands of troops lined a Pyongyang riverbank in the pale light of dawn early Sunday, as nuclear-armed North Korea prepared to celebrate its birthday with a huge show of military strength.

Syria's last major rebel bastion Idlib was Saturday targeted by the "most violent" Russian air strikes in a month, a monitor said, after the failure of a three-way summit on the Syrian conflict.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi faced calls to resign Saturday as his alliance with a populist cleric who won May elections crumbled over deadly unrest shaking the country's oil-rich south.