There have been disturbances in some parts of Jerusalem and surrounding areas in the occupied West Bank after Israeli police staged a huge security operation to prevent rioting after Friday prayers. The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists there are…
China and Japan have agreed to try to reduce tensions over a disputed chain of islands in the East China Sea.
The US Senate’s new Republican leader and President Barack Obama have both promised to end the political gridlock that has so frustrated American voters.
Tony Banbury: “We definitely do not have the response capability on the ground”The head of the UN mission charged with fighting Ebola in West Africa has told the BBC he does not yet have the resources necessary to defeat it.
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says she will not take action over Israel’s deadly commando raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010.
The party won in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia.
A driver has rammed a car into several pedestrians in East Jerusalem, killing one person, hours after clashes erupted at the city’s holiest site.
The Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, increasing its power in the final years of Barack Obama’s presidency. The party took Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia. Republican…
Americans are voting in mid-term elections which will decide who controls the Senate and pave the way for the 2016 race for the White House.
Police in Mexico say they have arrested the fugitive mayor of the town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing in September.
Americans are preparing to vote in mid-term elections which will decide who controls the Senate and pave the way for the 2016 race for the White House. Polling booths open on Tuesday beginning 06:00 Eastern (11:00 GMT). The Republicans, who…
By Mark Whitehouse As the U.S. prepares for a new round of congressional elections on Tuesday, it’s worth keeping in mind the huge influence lawmakers can have over the country’s economic well-being. Consider, for example, the role of budgeting decisions…
The move comes a day after the army ordered more than 100 politicians, including ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra, to come to the military council.
US police have confirmed that a man who killed six people in a rampage in California was 22-year-old Elliot Rodger. The student was the son of Hollywood filmmaker Peter Rodger, who was assistant director on The Hunger Games.
Thailand’s military has ordered 35 more people, including prominent academics, to report to them by Saturday afternoon as the post-coup crackdown continues.
A gunman has killed six people in drive-by shootings near the Californian city of Santa Barbara, US police say.
A dawn attack on a checkpoint in eastern Ukraine has left at least 14 soldiers dead, in the worst loss of life for government forces to date.
Thailand’s military has announced it is taking control of the government and has suspended the constitution.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed a multi-billion dollar, 30-year gas deal with China.
Thailand’s acting PM has issued a plea for the army to act peacefully and within the constitution following its imposition of martial law.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops near Ukraine’s border to withdraw, the Kremlin says.
Turkey is calling a halt to the Soma mine rescue operation after two more bodies were found, raising the death toll to 301.
The opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called its predicted landslide win in India’s election a “people’s victory”.
Trade unions in Turkey are holding a one-day strike in protest at the country’s worst ever mine disaster, which has claimed at least 282 lives.
President Barack Obama has joined September 11 survivors and rescuers at the dedication of a memorial museum on the site of the attacks in New York.
Residents of three villages in northern Nigeria have repelled an attack by suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters, an eyewitness has told the BBC. About 200 of the militants were killed during the fighting in the Kala-Balge district of Borno state,…
A new video released by Islamist militants Boko Haram claims to show around 130 girls kidnapped from a school in Nigeria last month.
Vietnamese naval ships and Chinese vessels have collided in the South China Sea, Vietnamese officials say.
A Thai court has ordered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and several cabinet ministers to step down.
A team of US experts has been sent to Nigeria to help find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted last month by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. US President Barack Obama said the team comprised personnel from military, law enforcement…