Israel

Qandil's trip comes as Israel calls up 30,000 reservists adding to speculation that a ground attack is imminent.

Air raid sirens sound in Israel's most populous city. Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu says the Israeli army is ready for ground invasion of Gaza.

Hamas leader Ahmed Jabari had just been given the draft of a truce agreement when he was assassinated in Israeli strike, peace activist Gershon Baskin revealed.

Israel targeted 100 Hamas' sites while Palestinian militants fired more than 200 rockets towards the Jewish state.

Three Israelis have been killed by rocket-fire from Gaza, where 11 Palestinians have died in Israeli air strikes since it killed a Hamas chief on Wednesday.

US calls for caution while acknowledging Israel’s right to self-defence.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas calls for urgent Arab League meeting over Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

Israel's military spokeswoman Avital Leibovitch says the Gaza attack is 'start of a broader operation' called Pillar of Defence.

Internal document for Israel's foreign ministry claims removing Abbas 'only option' over UN bid

The Palestinian Authority's bid to gain "observer state status" at the UN set to gain backing from 12 European states.

Israel tanks fire on Syrian targets after stray mortar from Syrian civil war lands in Golan Heights.

The well indicates the beginning of domestication in prehistoric times, long before the invention of pottery and metal.

Saudis to buy 20 military transport planes and five refuelling Hercules aircraft.

IBTimes UK reveals convicted fraudster had HSBC Jersey account and was given £20m overdraft facility.

Canada's Supreme Court rules Pfizer’s original patent application incomplete.

Three experts give their opinion on what four more years of Barack Obama will mean for cyber-security and a potential cyber war.

Renminbi's ascendance as international reference currency depends on size and scale of new leadership's economic reforms.

Nicholas Levene (Beano to his friends, of which I am one) is a crook, a wrong 'en, a "more front then Brighton" conman, who has just been found guilty of £32 million fraud and sentenced to 13 years in prison.

The threat of a nuclear war between Iran and Israel is the subject of Channel 4's Dispatches, as the filmmakers look at the impact a conflict of this sort could have.

Five-day meeting to focus on ways to form alternative Syrian government in exile.

Tehran halts uranium enrichment programme at critical 20 percent hoping for lifting of sanctions.

Several prominent publications have decided to back Obama because of Romney's policy schizophrenia has undermined his creditbility.

Extreme weather is God's revenge on sinful America, says anti-gay chaplain.

Iran says pictures were transmitted by Hezbollah drone before it was shot down by Israeli forces.

Former City trader cries as he takes stand to deny claims he defrauded UBS out of £1.4bn

Sam Allardyce has revealed that West Ham United might attempt to sign Rio Ferdinand next summer.

The Serbian Football have banned two players for a year after their involvement in a fight following the under-21 Euro 2013 play-off match against England in Krusevac.

Information minister Ahmed Belal Osman warns Israel: We reserve right to react to attack.

Four Palestinian militants killed in retaliatory airstrikes by Israeli Defence Force.

Gay rights, climate change, Europe and Guantanamo Bay left off trio of televised debates.