The official leading the hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner MH370 says a full search of the suspected crash area could take up to a year.

At least 18 people including 11 children are killed in two suicide bombings in the Syrian province of Hama, state media has reported.

Hamid Mir, the Pakistani journalist shot last month, makes his first appearance at a judicial commission set up to investigate his shooting.

Web users in Saudi Arabia can now petition their King directly through a website.

Mathematicians have found a strategy that may give players of rock-paper-scissors a winning edge.

Police in Nigeria appeal to parents of more than 200 abducted schoolgirls to come forward with photographs of the daughters to confirm the number of missing.

Gunmen in the Libyan city of Benghazi raid a security headquarters, sparking clashes in which five people died, military sources say.

Tunisia's interim parliament takes one of the last steps towards the country becoming a full democracy by approving a new electoral law.