Israel and Hamas agree to an unconditional 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire to begin on Friday morning, the US and UN say.

A Sudanese woman who fled to Italy after being spared a death sentence for renouncing Islam has arrived in the US.

The star witness in the corruption trial of Virginia ex-governor Bob McDonnell says the ex-first lady sought gifts in return for business help.

Oscar-winning make-up artist Dick Smith, who memorably transformed Marlon Brando into Vito Corleone in The Godfather, has died aged 92.

China's factory activity grows at its fastest pace in more than two year in July, the latest in a series of signs that the country's economy may be stabilising.

A hospital in Atlanta is preparing to receive a US aid worker infected with the deadly Ebola virus while working in West Africa.

The World Trade Organization says its 160 members have failed to agree a global customs pact drawn up in meetings in Bali last December.

Police have shot dead two suspects in the killing of the imam of China's largest mosque and captured another, state media say.