Reading Time: 3 minutesSyrian government forces have advanced into the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, state media say, as part of a widespread government crackdown.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA teenager from a poor family in the rural Philippines has been declared the worlds shortest man as he turned 18.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA 10-year old Wearside girl has had emergency surgery after becoming impaled on metal railings.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople in Turkey have voted in a general election, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expected to win a third term in office.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has rejected its rival Fatahs nomination of Salam Fayyad as prime minister in a transitional government.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPolice in southern China say they have arrested 25 people after clashes between residents and security forces near the city of Guangzhou.
Reading Time: 2 minutesQantas has cancelled all its flights in and out of Melbourne, Australia, because of ash drifting over the Pacific Ocean from a volcano...
Reading Time: 2 minutesFazul Abdullah Mohammed, suspected of having played a key role in the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa, has been killed in...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo mountain peaks in the Austrian Alps have been put up for sale for 121,000 euros (£107,000; $170,000).
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSomali Interior Minister Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan has been killed in a suicide attack at his home in the capital, Mogadishu.