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Bayern Munich, helped by two record-breaking VfL Wolfsburg own goals and two from man-of-the-match Michael Olise, demolished the visitors 8-1 in the Bundesliga on Sunday to extend their lead at the top, as the league resumed after its winter break, Reuters reported. 

The reigning champions, who are undefeated in the league this season, are on 44 points, 11 ahead of second-placed Borussia Dortmund. RB Leipzig, with a game in hand, are third on 29, as many as Bayer Leverkusen and fifth-placed VfB Stuttgart.

"It's not normal (for such a result), it's not a given and we should not forget that," Bayern coach Vincent Kompany said. "The first half was really not easy. But I had the feeling that when they get a bit tired, we'd create even more chances – and that's exactly what happened in the second half."

Raphinha scored twice as Barcelona won the Spanish Super Cup after an intense 3-2 victory over Real Madrid in Sunday’s final in Jeddah, Reuters reported. 

The match at King Abdullah Sports City Stadium turned into a thriller, with four goals packed into a breathless phase at the end of the first half.

After an even opening spell, Barcelona gradually asserted control before the interval, and were rewarded in the 36th minute when Raphinha burst into the box and drilled a low shot into the far corner to give his side the lead, according to Reuters. 

Sudan's military-led government has returned to the country's capital after nearly three years of operating from its wartime base in the eastern city of Port Sudan, BBC reported. 

Sudan's Prime Minister Kamil Idris told reporters on Sunday that the "government of hope" was officially back in Khartoum and would begin efforts to improve services for the city's beleaguered residents.

The military was forced out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) when civil war erupted between the two sides in 2023. The army recaptured it in a significant breakthrough last March, according to BBC. 

Thousands of tourists have been stranded in Finland's Lapland as a severe cold spell has grounded flights out of one of its airports, BBC reported. 

Departures from Lapland's Kittila airport that would have ferried winter travellers back to places like London, Bristol, Manchester, Paris and Amsterdam were all cancelled on Sunday as temperatures did not go above -35C on Sunday.

The issue is expected to continue on Monday as a low of -39C is forecast by Finland's meteorological agency. The first flight out of Kittila has already been cancelled, according to BBC. 

Donald Trump has urged Cuba to "make a deal" or face consequences, warning that the flow of Venezuelan oil and money would now stop, BBC reported. 

The US president has been turning his attention to Cuba since US forces seized Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro in a 3 January raid on its capital, Caracas.

Venezuela, a long-standing ally of Cuba, is believed to send around 35,000 barrels of oil a day to the island, according to BBC. 

Iran has warned it will retaliate if attacked by the US, as BBC sources and activists report hundreds of protesters have now been killed in an escalating government crackdown, BBC reported. 

"Things here are very, very bad," a source in Tehran said on Sunday. "A lot of our friends have been killed. They were firing live rounds. It's like a war zone, the streets are full of blood. They're taking away bodies in trucks."

The BBC counted about 180 body bags in footage from a morgue near Tehran. The US-based Human Rights Activist News Agency says it has verified the deaths of 495 protesters and 48 security personnel nationwide, according to BBC. 

As many as 2,662 general convention representatives of the Nepali Congress have registered their names in favor of the special general convention (SGC) that began at Bhrikutimandap, Kathmandu.

Eight stalls were set up on the first day of the event organized by a faction of NC supporting SGC. 

The general convention representatives had begun registering their names in favor of the SGC since 9 am Sunday.

Event coordination committee coordinator Yubraj Pandey informed the number of leaders in favor of SGC from Koshi Province stood 425, while from Madhes Province 446, from Bagmati Province 432, from Gandaki Province 296, from Lumbini Province 398, from Karnali Province 134, from Sudurpaschim Province 148, and Kathmandu Valley (Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur) 178 and from sister organizations, well wishers and liaison committees 195.

The registration will resume from 8 am on Monday, it was informed. 

Nepali Congress (NC) General Secretary Gagan Kumar Thapa asserted that the special general convention (SGC) was called in a bid to address public disenchantment. 

Addressing the two-day SGC that kicked off in the federal capital, Kathmandu on Sunday at the call of SCG supporters, General Secretary Thapa stated that the political parties should address the public resentment demonstrated during the Gen Z movement last September. 

Thapa said, "The public, during that uprising, vented their ire on the government in which the Nepali Congress was the partner. The new generation is angry due to corruption, misgovernance and anomalies. They are angry, hurt and dissatisfied with the rule of 'Nepo babies' in the republican system introduced by abolishing the monarchy."

In this light, he added the SGC has been summoned to listen to and address those voices. According to him, summoning the SGC at the initiatives of the General-Secretaries duo of the party may seem to emerge due to power struggle within the party, but, it is rather meant to be a struggle of ideologies and norms and values. 

"It was imperative to ponder the resentment and dissatisfaction expressed by thousands of men and women taking to the streets in the name of the Gen Z movement. In view of such an incident, Democratic Party like Nepali Congress does not have the luxury to overlook it and term it a normal incident," Thapa reminded.

Referring to the absence of party President and Acting President in the SGC, the General Secretary regretted that their wish to see the presence of the party leadership in the SGC remained unfulfilled. It may be noted that the leaders in the faction led by party President Sher Bahadur Deuba have snubbed the SGC and therefore have remained absent in the SGC. 

NC is the national power, he observed, it is therefore the NC's responsibility to seek resolutions to the national issues. "We must continue to uphold the confidence of the public. The Nepali Congress has a long history of successfully earning and maintaining public trust since democratic movement of 2007 BS," he mentioned. 

In order to ignite hope among new youths, creation of an environment where youths are retained within the country is essential, according to him. 

During his address, Thapa pledged adherence to the decisions made by the SGC representatives. 

He clarified that according to the party statute, no one is greater than the general convention and thus viewed that the SGC should be concluded by making it special as its name suggests.