Israel has allocated 70 million shekels ($18 million) to evacuate a border police post in order to build 300 more housing units in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, Israeli Television reported on Sunday.
Firefighters raced to contain a major blaze on Monday before the return of strong winds and a heatwave, following the loss of 26 homes in the worst brushfire conditions in South Australia in 30 years.
An Indonesian naval patrol vessel found what the captain said could be the tail of a missing AirAsia jet on Monday. The crucial black box voice and flight data recorders are normally located in that section of an aircraft.
Indonesia ordered the suspension of aviation officials on Monday as it investigates the crash of AirAsia flight QZ8501, also promising action against any domestic airlines violating their flying permits.
A healthcare worker from the United States who experienced high-risk exposure to the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone arrived at a Nebraska hospital on Sunday for observation.
Ebola survivors in the three West African countries worst hit by the epidemic will share their stories through a mobile application to be launched on Monday, in a UNICEF-backed campaign to inform and fight stigma around the disease.
Indonesian Yunita Syawal first feared that her brother was on AirAsia flight QZ8501 when she received a selfie of him and his friends boarding one of the carrier's planes at Surabaya airport.
Saudi Arabia said two armed men, including one with a suicide vest, attacked a patrol near the kingdom's frontier with Iraq, killing two guards and wounding a third.
Politicians from both sides of the aisle mourned the death on Saturday of "trailblazer" Edward Brooke, the first popularly elected black US senator. He was 95.
Buckingham Palace stepped up its denial that Prince Andrew had sex with an underage girl and named the alleged victim who had sought to preserve her anonymity, according to British newspaper reports on Sunday.
The state's Country Fire Service said the intense fire, which broke out on Friday in the Mount Lofty Ranges east of Adelaide, was continuing to burn in all directions at Sampson Flat, threatening lives.
Five men have been arrested over the alleged gang-rape and extortion of a Japanese tourist held as a sex slave for nearly a month in a basement near a famous Buddhist shrine in India, officials said on Sunday.
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