Pope Francis has married two cabin crew members in an impromptu wedding on a flight taking the pontiff and his entourage between two Chilean cities.

Paula Podest, 39, and Carlos Ciuffardi, 41, had been married in a civil service but their planned religious ceremony was scotched when an earthquake almost destroyed their parish church in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in 2010.

Seizing a rare opportunity, the couple asked Francis to bless their marriage. But he had something else in mind.

“Do you want me to marry you?” he asked them.

“Here?” they replied, astonished.

In his first medical exam as US President, Donald Trump “did exceedingly well” on a cognitive test, scoring 30 out of 30. US President Donald Trump received a perfect score in a cognitive function test used to detect a mental decline in someone who's otherwise healthy. White House doctor Ronny Jackson said Mr Trump did "exceedingly well" in the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). But what did the President have to do?

The new US embassy in London opened its doors to the public for the first time on Tuesday, a billion dollar glass monolith presiding over a former industrial site south of the city.

With a $1 billion price tag, the embassy is not only one of the most expensive buildings of its kind in the world, but also perhaps one of the most notorious after US President Donald Trump last week said he was canceling a planned visit to London in part because of his proclaimed outrage over the cost.

Five officers involved in two Navy ship collisions last year that killed a total of 17 sailors are being charged with negligent homicide, the Navy said Tuesday. A Navy spokesman, Capt. Greg Hicks, said the charges, which also include dereliction of duty and endangering a ship, will be presented to what the military calls an Article 32 hearing to determine whether the accused are taken to trial in a court-martial.

President Donald Trump is ending his first year in office with the lowest average approval rating of any elected president in his first term.

According to polling by Gallup, Trump has averaged just a 39 percent approval rating since his inauguration. The previous low was held by Bill Clinton, whose first-year average stood 10 points higher than Trump's, at 49 percent.

Recent surveys show most Americans view Trump as a divisive figure and even question his fitness for office. One relative bright spot for Trump is his handling of the economy, though even there his ratings are not as high as might be expected given a relatively strong economy.

Trump's current approval rating in Gallup's weekly poll is comparable to his average rating, standing at just 38 percent, with 57 percent saying they disapprove.

A California couple has been charged with torture after police rescued their 13 malnourished children from a home where some of them had been chained to beds, and neighbours on Monday described the family as shut-ins who shunned social contact. Reuters reports, Police made the discovery after a 17-year-old girl escaped the house in Perris, about 70 miles (113 km) east of Los Angeles, and used a cellular phone she had found in the house to call them, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said on Monday.