From the peace process with the Palestinians to Iran's nuclear program, U.S President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu covered a wide range of thorny issues during their recent meeting in Washington. 

At least 56 people were killed more than 100 others wounded in a suicide car bomber on July 9 in a market in Mohmand Agency in Pakistan's tribal region, officials said.

A suicide bomber has blown up a car at an army check point in Baghdad killing at least five people, officials say.

Chinese authorities have seized 38 tons of milk powder laced with a toxic additive that killed children and sparked a nationwide uproar in 2008, official media reported, underscoring the stubbornness of food safety failings.

At least five people have been killed by bombs targeting Shia pilgrims in Baghdad on July 8, Iraqi officials say.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled on July 8 he would not extend beyond September a 10-month moratorium on new housing starts in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.

A former senior justice official was executed on Wednesday in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, the city's higher court said.

More than 40 people have died and some 100 have been wounded in bomb attacks on Shia pilgrims converging on a shrine in northern Baghdad, say police.

The Justice Department announced charges Wednesday against five people who prosecutors say are members of an al Qaeda plot to stage attacks in the United States and the United Kingdom.

A judge in Brazil has ordered the arrest of one of the country's top footballers in connection with the disappearance of his ex-mistress.