Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on Ukraine to end violence against people after dozens of civilians were killed in clashes in the main airport of the self-proclaimed Republic of Donetsk.
Two cases of MERS infections, a deadly virus first reported two years ago in Saudi Arabia, have been confirmed in Iran for the first time.
Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested nine university professors over alleged links to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, which is banned in the Saudi kingdom.
China is going to make air cleaner by taking more than 5.3 million ageing cars off its roads, according to a government document.
A British freestyle motocross rider has become the first person to jump over Bournemouth Pier in the UK on a motorcycle. Dan Whitby completed the stunt on Sunday, on the second day of the first Bournemouth Wheels Festival.
Egyptians have resumed voting for a new president in an election expected to give a landslide victory to the ex-army chief who ousted the country's first democratically-elected leader and crushed his Muslim Brotherhood movement.
A negotiator expects a Palestinian unity government to be announced later this week in what would be a first significant step toward ending the crippling rift between Hamas and Fatah.
Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun says he will not declare himself a presidential candidate unless the battle becomes serious.
Rockets fired by militants operating in Syria have hit a Lebanese border town, wounding a Syrian national.
British nationals who joined the notorious al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group are the most bloodthirsty terrorists operating in Syria, a top opposition commander has said.