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`Reasonable chance` of finding MH370 in new search: Australia PM

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 10:40

A new underwater hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 had a "reasonable chance" of finding the plane, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday, adding that searchers would not give up easily.

Gaza toll tops 2100 as war resumes; Hamas says its military chief still alive

Last Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2014, 00:50

Justifying the strike targeted to kill the Hamas military chief, an Israeli cabinet minister has said that he deserves to die like Qaeda kingpin Osama bin Laden was killed.

Syria, US fight common jihadist enemy, but not as one

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 10:38

Syria and the United States find themselves on the same side of the battle against Islamic State jihadists, but a common enemy is unlikely to mean direct cooperation.

Gaza war resumes with deadly strikes, rocket fire

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 10:24

Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets at Israel for a second day on Wednesday after fighting resumed with the collapse of truce talks and an Israeli air strike that killed three people in Gaza.

UN decries `harsh` Thai sentences for royal slurs

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 09:42

The United Nation`s human rights office has voiced alarm at recent arrests and jail sentences for insulting Thailand`s monarchy, warning of "chilling effects" on freedom of expression under the junta.

German cop to go on trial over cannibalism website killing

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 09:40

A German police officer will go on trial Friday accused of murdering a willing victim he met on a website for cannibalism fetishists.

Beers, ducks and talk of war on Donetsk beach

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 09:38

As a shell explodes close by in the twilight on Donetsk`s beach, everyone falls silent for a moment. Then the chatter about where it fell and who fired it starts again.

1 killed, 19 injured in bus fire in China

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 09:36

One person was killed and 19 others injured today after a public bus caught fire during morning rush hour in China`s eastern Shandong Province.

Masked gunmen slay family collecting body at Honduras morgue, kill 9

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 09:28

Masked gunmen attacked a family collecting a body from a morgue in the ultraviolent Honduran city of San Pedro Sula on Tuesday, killing nine people including four of the deceased`s kin. 

Israeli strike killed Gaza commander`s wife and child: Hamas

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 09:26

Hamas said Wednesday that an Israeli air strike killed the wife and child of its Gaza military chief, as a temporary ceasefire went up in smoke and Cairo truce talks froze.