BBC Middle East
A Hezbollah assault forces several villages loyal to a pro-government leader to hand control to Lebanon's army.
Electricity blackouts hit Gaza as the territory's only power station shuts down, with officials citing lack of fuel.
A ceasefire between the Iraqi government and Shia militias seems to be holding in Baghdad's Sadr City.
Israeli air strikes kill five Hamas members after a mortar attack from the Gaza Strip kills an Israeli civilian.
The US military in Iraq says a man detained in Mosul is not in fact the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Ehud Olmert is suspected of illicitly accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars before becoming PM.
Israel marks 60 years since its creation in 1948, a date the Palestinians remember as "the Catastrophe".
Seventeen militants are killed in clashes over the last 24 hours with US and Iraqi forces, the US military says.
The body of a woman killed during clashes in the Gaza Strip is found at her home, Palestinian medics say.
Two female Japanese tourists are released in Yemen hours after they were seized by gunmen, officials say.
A former Kuwaiti detainee at Guantanamo Bay carried out a recent suicide bombing in Iraq, the US says.
The government is refused the right to challenge an order saying it should take an Iranian opposition group off a terror blacklist.
Two Baghdad stadiums are prepared to receive people warned to leave home ahead of an assault.
A newspaper prints what it says are excerpts from diaries by ex-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein before his execution in 2006.
Members of Iran's parliament complain about remarks made by former President Khatami on Ayatollah Khomeini.
A last-minute delivery of fuel by Israel to a UN agency in the Gaza Strip allows aid deliveries to continue.
Differences have narrowed, officials say, as Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet for a new round of talks.
British troops acted "humanely" during the disembarkation of 4,000 Jews against their will into Germany in 1947, documents show.
The wife of Iraq's president is unhurt after a bomb exploded near her motorcade in Baghdad.
Mediators from Qatar try to salvage a truce between Shia rebels and the government in Yemen amid rising violence.