Israeli aircraft attacked Gaza on Saturday for the first time since an August truce ended a 50-day conflict after a rocket hit the Jewish state, witnesses and the army said.
Polling started in Tunisia on Sunday in a landmark runoff to choose the country's first president nearly four years after the political and social turmoil of late 2010 and early 2011.
Russia vowed on Saturday to take retaliatory measures against a fresh round of punitive measures, after the United States and Canada followed EU steps to ratchet up sanctions over Crimea and for what they say is Russia's role in the ongoing Ukrainian crisis.
Cuban President Raul Castro said on Saturday he was ready to discuss any topic with Washington after the historic bilateral rapprochement, but warned not to expect political change.
Two New York City police officers who were ambushed and shot dead in their vehicle were "quite simply, assassinated", and the suspect had earlier made Instagram posts that were very anti-police, Police Commissioner William Bratton said.
Eight children ranging from babies to teenagers were found dead, victims of what was reported as a gruesome stabbing, at an Australian home in Cairns on Friday.
An operation by Kurdish fighters backed by US-led airstrikes broke the Islamic State group's weeks-old siege of Iraq's Mount Sinjar on Thursday, a top Iraqi Kurdistan security official said.
A key adviser to Australian mining billionaire and politician Clive Palmer was arrested on Friday and charged in the alleged kidnapping of a bank employee on an Indonesian island.
A leftist political party in the Republic of Korea was disbanded on Friday in a rare decision by the constitutional court, which said the party supported the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Mandy Rice-Davies, a key figure in Britain's biggest Cold War political scandal, the Profumo Affair, has died at the age of 70.
The Church of England has named a saxophone-playing vicar with a taste for soccer as its first female bishop in a move hailed as an important step toward greater gender equality.
Libby Lane, the next bishop of Stockport, was educated at the University of Oxford and became a priest in 1994.
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