Five members of an Israeli family were killed in the West Bank early on Saturday morning in what the Israeli military is calling a "terror attack."

The Arab League has backed the idea of a no-fly zone over Libya, as rebels continue to be pushed back by Colonel Gaddafi's forces.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday called for "utmost restraint" and "a genuine and broad-based dialogue" in Yemen in order to avoid a further deterioration of the situation in the Middle East country.

A work safety bureau chief and a township head were removed from post on Saturday after gas explosion at an illegal coal mine killed 19 workers and left 15 others injured in southwest China's Guizhou Province.

The 8.9-magnitude earthquake and coastline-devouring tsunami that hit Japan on March 11 has led 49 countries, the European Union and even the International Atomic Energy Agency to band together and offer relief to the devastated island nation.

An estimated 170,000 people have been evacuated from the area around a quake-damaged nuclear power station in north-east Japan that was hit by an explosion, the UN atomic watchdog says.

The tsunami generated by a massive earthquake in Japan could reach 6 feet (2 metres) when it hits parts of the northern California coast and force some evacuations, a state emergency agency spokesman said.

The morning after Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake to hit the island nation in recorded history and the tsunami it unleashed - and even as the earth continued to twitch with aftershocks - the disaster's massive impact was only beginning to be revealed.

Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the Madrid train bombings – four coordinated attacks on morning rush hour commuter trains that killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800.

India has test fired the naval version of a short-range missile capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads, a defense ministry official said Friday.