The builders of an unmanned supply rocket which exploded on the way to the International Space Station have vowed to find the cause of the failure.

Samsung Electronics sees its quarterly operating profit fall to its lowest level in more than three years because of slowing smartphone sales.

Israel faces strong criticism at the UN Security Council over plans to build hundreds of homes in occupied East Jerusalem.

Rescue workers in Sri Lanka intensify their search for survivors of a tea plantation landslide which is feared to have buried more than 100 people.

Tunisia's secularist Nidaa Tounes party wins 81 seats in parliament, pushing the Islamists of Ennahda into second place, official results show.

Prominent right wing Jewish activist Yehuda Glick is shot and seriously wounded while leaving a conference in Jerusalem, police say.

A nurse who cared for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone is fighting the US state of Maine over its right to quarantine her against her will.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto meets the families of 43 students who went missing more than a month ago, sparking nationwide protests.