Israel says a Palestinian effort to set a three-year deadline for it to end its occupation of Palestinian territories is a "gimmick".

The European Union needs a "plan for years" towards Russia, Donald Tusk says, chairing his first summit as European Council president.

The agency guarding the US president is too insular and must recruit its next head externally, a review prompted by a White House security breach says.

A secret CIA report released by Wikileaks says strikes against Taliban leaders have had little impact on the group.

Eight children are found dead at a house in the Manoora suburb of Cairns, Australia, say police, reportedly after a mass stabbing.

South Korea bans a political party for the first time in decades, with a court ordering a party accused of supporting the North to disband.

Tracking data reveals that golden-winged warblers fled one day before the April 2014 US tornado outbreak, probably because they "heard it coming".

A Chinese court has jailed a pilot for three years over a 2010 crash in Heilongjiang province that left 44 people dead.