JERUSALEM, UNDEFINED, Daphne Rousseau- Israel called Tuesday for the shelving of a UN inquiry into its war last summer in the Gaza Strip after the probe's head quit over Israeli accusations of...

LONDON, UK- British botanists have found a previously unrecorded orchid in the mountains of Cambodia, they said Thursday, ahead of a major orchid show at London's Kew Gardens. The new species was...

AMMAN, JORDAN, Mussa Hattar and Kamal Taha- Jordan vowed to begin executing death-row Islamic extremists at dawn on Wednesday, an "earth-shattering" response to the burning alive of one of its...

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, Jennie Matthew- American author Harper Lee is to publish a second novel, more than half a century after the release of her much-loved classic "To Kill a Mockingbird,"...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Syrian government air strikes on opposition-held towns across the country killed at least 44 people on Monday and wounded more than 100, a monitoring group said. In Jassem in the...

NICOSIA, CYPRUS, David Vujanovic with Patrick Hamilton in Brisbane- Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy will soon be freed from an Egyptian jail, Canada's foreign minister said Monday, a day after...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Some 20 mosques in Britain were opening their doors to the public Sunday in an unprecedented gesture of reassurance following last month's Islamist attacks in Paris. Visitors...

PARIS, FRANCE, Michel Sailhan- France and Morocco are to resume judicial cooperation after a year-long row, according to a joint statement Saturday, in a move that will help French investigators...

PARIS, FRANCE, Michel Moutot- After having used the Internet profusely for propaganda and recruitment, jihadist organisations have realised that investigators are gleaning crucial information online...