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British medics on hand to help Gaza casualties
The 8-year-old boy's question seemed simple enough but was all the more tragically poignant for that.
The 8-year-old boy's question seemed simple enough but was all the more tragically poignant for that.
The days of the military strongman are on the wane around the world - few people would be sad about that.
Fiji's interim Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is set to face protests during his visit to New Zealand this weekend to campaign for the upcoming elections.
Vladimir Putin has ordered bans on food imports from countries that have issued sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
Google is facing criticism for continuing to allow Android mobile users to download a game called "Bomb Gaza".
An Israeli airstrike killed a militant leader in the Gaza Strip last night, as other flashpoints in the wider Middle East flared up in worrying signs of regional instability.
Memories of his service along the Gaza border two years ago have been streaming through the mind of Shai Davidovich this week.
Hundreds of people living in the Torres Strait face the prospect of having to leave their homes in the coming decades as rising seas engulf their low-lying islands.
Russia's economy faces a financial stranglehold and President Vladimir Putin's inner circle will be hit with asset freezes and travel bans.
Even while "the monstrous anger of the guns" was hauling millions to their death, the blame game was already well under way.
Banking group HSBC sees economic growth picking up in China and the momentum continuing into next year.
Anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise in Europe amid a growing chorus of criticism at Israel's assault on Gaza.
Vladimir Putin is facing a multimillion-dollar legal action for his alleged role in the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine.
While the 1962 Cuban missile crisis is widely regarded as the nearest the world has come to nuclear war, historians and military analysts believe we were even closer to the brink in late 1983.
Barack Obama has openly questioned why Hillary Clinton would want to go through the "undignifying process" of running for the White House in 2016.
Eighteen years ago this month, the Northern Territory became the first place in the world to legalise voluntary euthanasia
The largest flight of Christians in the Middle East since the massacre of Armenians in Turkey during World War I continues as Isis stick to its hardline policies.