Donetsk: At least two civilians were killed as fighting erupted Tuesday afternoon in a western suburb of the besieged main rebel bastion of Donetsk in war-torn east Ukraine, city authorities said. "There were two victims among the civilian population," they ...

Britain's state minister Sayeeda Warsi arrives for a cabinet meeting at Number 10 Downing Street in London August 29, 2013. One of five daughters in a Pakistani immigrant family, Sayeeda Warsi's is a remarkable success story. It is ironical that the woman ...

London: British police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of making a hoax bomb threat that forced a Qatar Airways plane to make an emergency landing under military jet escort. Footage of the incident appeared to show an Royal Air Force Typhoon jet ...

A Palestinian source told Ahram Online on Tuesday that Israel will likely impose "unprecedented security restrictions" to limit the entrance of weapons to Palestinian factions. Based in Jerusalem, the source also said that Israel has agreed to send a delegation ...

UKRAINE says its forces are closing in on the main rebel-held bastion of Donetsk and urged the insurgents to let civilians flee besieged eastern cities as fears of a humanitarian crisis grow. The military advances against pro-Moscow separatists came as more ...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat after a passenger plane landed Tuesday with a military fighter escort at Britain's Manchester Airport. There were 269 passengers and 13 crewmembers on board Qatar Airways Flight 23 ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Lagos has eight suspected cases of Ebola, all in people who came into contact with Nigeria's first victim who died last month, the health commissioner said on Tuesday, with one case confirmed. Authorities have been monitoring anyone ...

A picture distributed by ER24 shows rubble from an earthquake in Orkney in the North West.The tremors were felt in various parts of South Africa, shaking buildings, rattling windows and resulting in building evacuations. Johannesburg - The earthquake that ...

A German court ruled on Tuesday that Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone can pay a $US100 million ($A108.2 million) settlement to end his bribery trial. Now likely to stay at the F1 helm, the 83-year-old struck an accord with prosecutors on the huge ...

An incoming plane from Doha, Saudi Arabia, has been escorted into Manchester airport by the RAF over fears that a device was on board. Josh Hartley was a passenger on board the Qatar Airways flight when he spotted a fighter jet outside his window.

GAZA CITY — Israel's military said today it has withdrawn all of its troops from Gaza, effectively wrapping up its ground operation, although the situation is still volatile and the four-week-old conflict has not ended. The announcement from Israel that its troops ...

For all the Westminster village chuckling and briefing about the resignation of Baroness Warsi – she wasn't up to it, they say, and why has she resigned over Israel when the Government doesn't really have a policy anyway? – this development should be seen ...

Johannesburg: A 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit central South Africa on Tuesday, killing at least one man who died when a wall collapsed on top of him, according to emergency services. The US Geological Survey said the tremor was centred in Orkney, ...

As the euro zone experience proves, sustaining a monetary union requires banking, fiscal, and full economic union. Photo: AP. The escalating conflict in Ukraine between the Western-backed government and Russian-backed separatists has focused attention ...

MOSCOW Aug 5 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that Moscow should discuss possible retaliatory measures after the European Union imposed sanctions on a low-cost Russian airline over the Ukraine crisis, RIA news ...

Sayeeda Warsi, a senior minister in Britain's Foreign Office, resigned on Tuesday, accusing Prime Minister David Cameron's government of taking a "morally indefensible" approach to the conflict between Israel and Hamas. While the British government has ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 hit central South Africa on Tuesday, shaking buildings in Johannesburg. The U.S. geological agency says the earthquake was centered six kilometers east of Orkney, a town about 180 kilometers southwest of ...

Israel on Tuesday completed the withdrawal of all troops from Gaza as a 72-hour humanitarian truce went into effect following intense global pressure to end the bloody conflict. Here is the on-going conflict in Gaza in photographs. (Reuters photo) ...

The United States is “taking the necessary precautions to protect Americans” from the spread of Ebola, President Obama pledged in an op-ed Tuesday ahead of his appearance at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington. The president said the U.S. ...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - The second American infected with the Ebola virus is set to land back in the United States on Tuesday. Her private plane bound for Atlanta took off from Liberia early Tuesday morning. Medical aid worker Nancy Writebol will ...