AGRA, May 25 -- US secretary of state Marco Rubio visited the Taj Mahal here on Monday along with his wife Jeanette Rubio and described the monument as "one of the true treasures of the world" after spending nearly an hour at the 17th-century white marble mausoleum amid intense heatwave conditions in Agra.

Accompanied by Sergio Gor, the US ambassador to India, the couple wrote in the visitors' book, "Thank you for allowing us to visit one of the true treasures of the World."

Dressed in a black suit and white shirt, Rubio arrived at the Taj Mahal with Jeanette Rubio, who wore a sky-blue gown. The couple posed for photographs at the Diana seat near the central tank and toured different sections of the monument despite temperatures hoverin...