3 May 2013 Last updated at 15:34 GMT This picture provided by activists purports to show Syrian soldiers at the scene of the killings More than 40 people have been killed by government forces in a village in north-western Syria, [...]

3 May 2013 Last updated at 07:14 GMT World Press Freedom Day celebrates its 20th anniversary on Friday. It was first officially proclaimed during the UN General Assembly in 1993. The theme for 2013 is Safe to Speak: Securing Freedom [...]

2 May 2013 Last updated at 23:48 GMT By Jim Muir BBC Middle East correspondent Protests swept Iraq after security forces killed 23 Sunnis in Kirkuk province Some observers see [...]

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has acknowledged his government is no longer ruling out arming Syrian rebels. It is the first time a senior US official has said openly that the US is reconsidering its opposition to supplying weapons to rebel [...]

2 May 2013 Last updated at 17:47 GMT Heightened tensions between Iraq’s Sunni and Shia led to a peak in violence last month April 2013 was Iraq’s deadliest month since June 2008, the United Nations mission in Iraq [...]

3 May 2013 Last updated at 12:34 GMT Previous tagline (left) and current tagline on google.ps Internet giant Google has changed the tagline on the homepage of its Palestinian edition from “Palestinian Territories” [...]

2 May 2013 Last updated at 23:04 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Hagel: ‘You’re always… going to continue [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 23:51 GMT By Bill Law Gulf analyst, BBC News There were no casualties in the Tamweel Tower blaze in Dubai, but the building was gutted Fears of [...]

2 May 2013 Last updated at 12:02 GMT By Jonathan Marcus BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Barack Obama is seen as reluctant to get embroiled in military action in Syria In [...]

2 May 2013 Last updated at 12:29 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Det Spt Nigel Rock told the BBC’s Daniela Relph: [...]

2 May 2013 Last updated at 15:54 GMT Sayed Mansour (L) and Ahmed Mohammed are suspected of belonging to a vast terror network planning to attack US, British and Israeli targets in Kenya A Kenyan court has found two Iranian men [...]

2 May 2013 Last updated at 12:03 GMT Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was captured in November 2011 while allegedly trying to flee the country The son of deposed Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam, has briefly appeared in [...]

2 May 2013 Last updated at 10:33 GMT The World Health Organisation says it is closely monitoring the novel coronavirus Five people in Saudi Arabia have died from a Sars-like virus and two more are seriously ill, officials say. The [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 23:51 GMT By Bill Law Gulf analyst, BBC News There were no casualties in the Tamweel Tower blaze in Dubai, but the building was gutted Fears of [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 13:45 GMT By Wyre Davies BBC correspondent on Lebanese-Syrian border Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 12:48 GMT By Ahmed Maher BBC Arabic, Tunisia The Ghriba synagogue is the oldest Jewish temple in Africa Murdokhai Izra will celebrate his 60th birthday [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 15:11 GMT Saudi authorities have been criticised in the past for a lack of preparedness for floods At least 13 people have died and four other are missing in flash floods in Saudi Arabia. Deaths were [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 15:01 GMT Awakening Council fighters provide security in many areas of Iraq At least 14 members of an anti-al-Qaeda Sunni militia have been killed in two attacks by militants near the western Iraqi [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 11:30 GMT Mr Abu Dheeb has spent more than two years in jail Rights group Amnesty International has renewed its call for the release of the jailed president of the Bahrain Teachers Association, Mahdi [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 01:32 GMT By Rana Jawad BBC News, Tripoli Libya’s disgruntled militiamen are flexing their muscles in the capital, Tripoli. Both the foreign [...]

1 May 2013 Last updated at 00:04 GMT Rodrigo Abd says the Pulitzer is an endorsement of his 14 years of work BBC Brasil’s Marcia Carmo speaks to Argentine photographer Rodrigo Abd – who has been awarded this year’s [...]

As the conflict in Syria drags on, pro-government fighters near the country’s borders are turning for increasing support to their allies in neighbouring territories. Shia towns well inside Lebanon are being deliberately targeted by anti-Assad [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 20:25 GMT Mr Nasrallah said reports that large numbers of Hezbollah’s fighters had been killed were lies The head of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has declared that Syria has real friends [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 15:56 GMT The president was given a ceremonial welcome at Windsor Castle The president of the United Arab Emirates has been given a lavish welcome as he was greeted by the Queen on the first day [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 14:16 GMT Police in Saudi Arabia say they have shot and wounded a man wanted over his involvement in protests in a restive province in the east of country. The interior ministry said Abdullah al-Asrih [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 15:03 GMT The justice minister and his staff left the building after it was surrounded by armed men, the BBC was told The offices of the Libyan justice ministry in Tripoli have been surrounded by [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 06:20 GMT By Abubakr Al-Shamahi BBC Arabic There is growing anger among Yemeni civilians over drone strikes Farea al-Muslimi was born and raised [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 07:10 GMT Sheikh Khalifa Al-Nahyan met the Queen on her visit to the UAE in 2010 The president of the United Arab Emirates is on a two-day state visit to Britain amid claims that three Britons were [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 09:42 GMT Police say Evyatar Borovsky was stabbed before being shot An Israeli settler has been killed by a Palestinian at a bus stop in the northern West Bank, police say. The attack took place [...]

30 April 2013 Last updated at 10:28 GMT Mishal was killed while riding a motorcycle A Palestinian militant has been killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City. Haytham al-Mishal, 29, was hit while riding a motorcycle. At least [...]