A two-judge Delhi High Court bench comprising the Chief Justice has agreed to hear an appeal filed by Gitanjali Angmo, wife of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, challenging the court's earlier order refusing to transfer him from Hospital to a hospital of his choice. In a special hearing on Sunday, a single-judge bench had held that the police's removal of Wangchuk from Jantar Mantar and his transfer to the hospital was not arbitrary.

India achieved its first private orbital rocket launch on 18 July, when Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace successfully sent its small-satellite launch vehicle -1 into low-Earth orbit.

Iran has fired drones and missiles at , Bahrain, and Jordan, after an eighth consecutive night of US attacks on Iranian cities. The strikes included one on the partly built Darkhovin nuclear facility.

, nicknamed the "King of the North", will become the UK's next Prime Minister on Monday. Burnham left Westminster nearly a decade ago to become Mayor of Greater Manchester, returning to Parliament only weeks ago before securing the Labour leadership. He will be Britain's seventh PM in ten years.

, a collection of poems inspired by the everyday challenges delivery riders face — some scribbled on slips of paper between food deliveries — has won Wang Jibing one of China's top literary honours. Wang became a gig worker in 2019.