At least 15 people have been killed and 160 wounded in an Israeli air strike that hit a market near Gaza City, Palestinian officials say.   The explosion hit a busy fruit and vegetable...

Militant Islamists in Somalia have shot dead a Muslim woman for refusing to wear a veil, her relatives say.   Ruqiya Farah Yarow was killed outside her hut near the southern Somali town of...

The Ukrainian army says it has seized a key town near the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, as fighting rages in the east.   Pro-Russia separatists were driven out of Avdiivka today, the army...

Israel attacked a UN-run school housing refugees in Gaza despite warnings that civilians were there, the UN has said.   UN spokesman Chris Gunness said "the world stands disgraced"...

International observers turned back Wednesday after making another attempt to reach the site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down in eastern Ukraine, and a government official said the area...

Several Israeli tank shells slammed into a crowded U.N. school used as shelter for refugees in the Gaza war early on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 90, a Palestinian health...

Shells smashed into a residential neighborhood of Donetsk on Tuesday as Ukrainian forces intensified their campaign to encircle the rebel stronghold. The shelling killed at least two people, blew...

The EU has adopted new economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, targeting the oil sector, defence equipment and sensitive technologies, EU sources say.   Russian state...

A vet who was filmed having sex with a horse and a dog has been struck off his profession's register.   Oliver Fraser Lown of Kesgrave, Suffolk was found guilty of five charges by...

Dating website OKCupid has revealed that it experimented on its users, including putting the "wrong" people together to see if they would connect.   It revealed the tests after the...