18 April 2013 Last updated at 13:28 GMT Grant Cameron, Karl Williams and Suneet Jeerh were on holiday when they were arrested A British woman has appealed to a Dubai judge to release her son who was allegedly tortured by police [...]

18 April 2013 Last updated at 15:26 GMT The MoD says all those who died were killed on the battlefield A teenager killed in Iraq was tortured and hanged by British troops, his uncle has told an official investigation. Khuder [...]

18 April 2013 Last updated at 09:02 GMT Voters in Iraq are going to the polls in provincial elections on 20 April. Ten years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, they are faced with a chaotic and deeply divided political landscape. [...]

18 April 2013 Last updated at 09:20 GMT By Jason Patinkin Loliondo, Tanzania In a remote corner of northern Tanzania, Boeing 747 planes land on a private airstrip, trucks with [...]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the BBC that Israel has a right to prevent weapons from falling into the wrong hands in Syria. He said that if terrorists seized weapons such as anti-aircraft and chemical weapons they could [...]

Muslims living in Boston have been describing their feelings following the marathon bombings which killed three people and left more than 170 wounded. One man at the Islamic Cultural Center said, “Whoever tried to kill an eight-year-old [...]

18 April 2013 Last updated at 10:54 GMT By Jon Donnison BBC News, West Bank The Palestinian Olympic Committee has asked Israel to grant permits to Gazan runners Israel is refusing [...]

18 April 2013 Last updated at 10:13 GMT Seven members of an alleged al-Qaeda cell have been arrested over plans to attack targets in the United Arab Emirates, officials tell state media. The group was planning actions which [...]

18 April 2013 Last updated at 07:07 GMT Seven members of a local al-Qaeda cell are arrested over alleged plans to attack targets in the United Arab Emirates, officials tell state media. The group was planning actions which [...]

Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has wrapped up a tour of three West African states. Africa is a continent that he has long courted for economic and political ties, with Iran’s increasing isolation because of international [...]

17 April 2013 Last updated at 20:42 GMT Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said the West will pay a high price for what he described as its support for al-Qaeda in his country’s conflict. In a TV interview, [...]

18 April 2013 Last updated at 02:53 GMT Benjamin Netanyahu says militants with powerful weapons could worsen regional conflict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the BBC that Israel has a right to prevent weapons [...]

17 April 2013 Last updated at 15:27 GMT By Bill Law BBC News Angry young protesters reject calls for peaceful protests The main opposition society in Bahrain has called for [...]

17 April 2013 Last updated at 08:41 GMT By Rana Rahimpour BBC Persian The candidates will be approved by the Guardian Council, appointed directly or indirectly by the Supreme [...]

Iran has been struck by its most powerful earthquake for more than 50 years, with tremors felt across Pakistan, India and the Middle East. The epicentre of the 7.8-magnitude quake was near the south-eastern city of Khash, close to Pakistan. The [...]

17 April 2013 Last updated at 09:57 GMT The UK government has repeatedly attempted to have Abu Qatada deported The government has asked for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court against a ruling preventing the deportation [...]

17 April 2013 Last updated at 08:18 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. More than 30 people were killed and dozens injured in [...]

17 April 2013 Last updated at 06:59 GMT At least two rockets have hit the southern Israeli city of Eilat. Police said the rockets landed in open areas, without causing damage or injury. Warning sirens went off just before the [...]

17 April 2013 Last updated at 00:08 GMT By John Ware BBC News Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. [...]

Iran has been struck by its most powerful earthquake for more than 50 years, with tremors felt across Pakistan, India and the Middle East. However, there has been just one confirmed death in the country whereas in Pakistan more than 30 people [...]

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Iran has been struck by its most powerful earthquake for more than 50 years, with tremors felt across Pakistan, India and the Middle East. This footage shows the effect the 7.8-magnitude quake on mountains in Kahir, a small village in the south [...]

16 April 2013 Last updated at 07:29 GMT Bill Law Gulf analyst Unrest on the island forced the cancellation of the 2011 Bahrain Grand Prix As Formula 1 returns to [...]

Nader and Hammuda, two former inmates released into the Gaza strip after an exchange deal between Hamas and Israel reached in 2011, have opened a sweet shop. They specialize in a popular sweet they used to make for their fellow prisoners. BBC [...]

16 April 2013 Last updated at 10:43 GMT Unconfirmed reports said there were a number of injuries Police in Bahrain have fired tear gas and clashed with students in a raid on a secondary school in the capital, Manama, reports [...]

16 April 2013 Last updated at 07:39 GMT More than a million people have been left homeless by the conflict The heads of five major UN agencies have issued a rare joint appeal to the international community to do much more to [...]

16 April 2013 Last updated at 12:22 GMT Iran has been struck by its most powerful earthquake for nearly 40 years, with tremors felt across Pakistan, India and the Middle East. The epicentre of the 7.3 magnitude quake was near [...]

16 April 2013 Last updated at 06:05 GMT By Jon Donnison BBC News, Ramallah Salam Fayyad is an independent politician and a former official at the IMF Salam Fayyad, [...]

15 April 2013 Last updated at 23:20 GMT By Raffi Berg BBC News, West Bank Israel is launching a Year of National Heritage, to coincide with the country’s independence [...]

15 April 2013 Last updated at 16:56 GMT Syria’s government and rebels accuse each other of using chemical weapons during an attack last month The UK is increasingly concerned there is evidence that chemical weapons have [...]