Deposed president could be freed as soon as Thursday.
US soldier who supplied diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks convicted by military court at Fort Meade.
Chemical weapons experts debate report that more than 200 people killed by Assad's toxic rockets.
Pink Floyd's frontman launches appeal inspired by violinist Nigel Kennedy and accuses Tel Aviv of crimes against Palestinians.
Nationalist Israeli former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman hits back at Turkish PM for conspiracy remarks.
Chemical weapons expert says timing of attack while UN inspectors are in Syria is 'suspicious'.
Pro-Assad Facebook page praises chemical attack that allegedly killed more than 200 people
Liberal opposition leader ElBaradei faces lawsuit following his resignation as vice-president.
The man who helped introduce the Terrorism Act 2000 says there was no legal basis for detention of Guardian journalist's partner at Heathrow
Rebels claim troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad bombarded suburbs with nerve gas overnight.
Downing Street sent officials to warn Guardian about publishing of NSA and GCHQ stories.
1,000 settlement homes are not an impediment to peaces, insist Reuven Rivlin.
Cologne prosecutors investigating how bodybuilder got through security to break into chancellor's plane at military airport.
Angela Merkel visits the former Nazi concentration camp of Dachau outside Munich.
Powerful Israeli intelligence say 15 Salafi groups alone operate in deadly Sinai peninsula.
Sori Kotei house in Tokyo's Nagatacho district was scene of murders and coups d'état
On 18 August 2013, General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi appeared on Egyptian state television calling the unrest, verging on civil war, which the world has been witnessing since the overthrow of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi on 03 July, "terrorism"
Social media campaign backed by politicians and TV hosts after Stockholm assault on Muslim woman in headscarf.
Authorities opened a probe into Joué-lès-Tours incident involving two officers after footage is posted on YouTube
Interior Minister Manuel Valls says France on high alert over threat.
Erdogan cites French Jewish intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy that 'democracy is not the ballot box'.
Former president on conspiracy plot charges over death of populist PM killed in 2007 in Rawalpindi.
Russian military creating cyber security command and operational wing.
Majority of 2010 voters think Miliband should not take on Cameron in 2015.
Badie faces charges of incitement to murder and attack on state institutions.
Northeastern China ravaged by heavy rain triggering massive floods as Beijing deploys troops.
An Egyptian court dropped on Monday (August 19) a corruption charge against Hosni Mubarak, the president ousted in the 2011 uprising, a ruling his lawyer said would clear the way to his release from jail soon.
Spanish tourists in UK may bear brunt of diplomatic row over border controls and artificial reef in Gibraltar.
Gulf superpower pledges support to Egypt's military government against 'terrorists'.
SOHR earlier reported Jesuit missionary abducted in ar-Raqqah by Islamic State of Iraq and Levante (ISIS) had been executed.