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Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal met on Thursday to discuss reforming the Palestine Liberation Organisation.

The IAEA says it has credible intelligence Iran has sought nuclear weapons technology - and that those efforts may be ongoing.

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, described the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, as a “liar” in a private exchange with Barack Obama at last week’s G20 summit in Cannes that was inadvertently broadcast to journalists.

A Libyan Jew who returned to the country after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in hopes of resurrecting its Jewish community said on Monday that he was forced to stop work on the long-abandoned Tripoli synagogue after a violent threat.

The photographs of Representative Gabrielle Giffords have been released, almost six months after she was gunned down and shot in the head in Tucson in January.

Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias literature award on Wednesday for a body of work of "immutable merit," the jury said.

Jewish Mark Ndesandjo meets with chief rabbi, agrees to press Obama to release Jonathan Pollard

Owners of an Austrian pastry shop that showcases cakes decorated with Nazi themes should be prosecuted, a Holocaust awareness group urged.

An American museum has agreed to return a 370 year-old painting that was looted by the Nazis during the Second World War.

The Israeli medical delegation will establish a medical clinic geared to handle the casualties and refugees concentrated in the Miyagi prefecture, six hours north of Tokyo.