Palestinian and Israeli negotiators are due to meet to try to extend faltering peace talks beyond a 29 April deadline, the US says.

Members of the UN Security Council view graphic photographs of prisoners allegedly tortured by Syrian government forces.

Shares in the struggling internet search giant Yahoo surge 9%, despite first-quarter profits falling 20%.

The New York Police department shutters a secret programme designed to listen to and track Muslims in the city's neighbourhoods to identify threats.

A robotic submarine resumes its search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on the seabed of the southern Indian Ocean.

A rescue operation is under way after a ferry with about 450 people on board began sinking off the south-west coast of South Korea, coastguard officials say.

China's economy expanded by 7.4% in the first quarter of the year, better than expected but down from 7.7% at the end of 2013.

The European Parliament is voting on a bill to draw up a blacklist to fight the spread of invasive alien species such as killer shrimp.