BBC Middle East
Moscow is ready to sell new weapons of "a defensive character" to Syria, Russia's foreign minister says.
The Israeli High Court orders that the route of the barrier in the West Bank be changed to give Palestinians more land.
The front-runner to become Israel's next PM, Tzipi Livni, plays down hopes of reaching a Mid-East peace deal this year.
Iraq says a deal on the future of US forces is "very close" after talks with the US secretary of state in Baghdad.
Should athletes change nationality for Olympics?
A Japanese tanker and Iranian vessel are captured by pirates off the Somali coast in the latest in a spate of hijackings.
The son of Libya's leader, Sayf al-Islam Gaddafi, says he is retiring from political life though he is seen as a likely successor.
Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora arrives in Baghdad, in the first visit by a Lebanese leader since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Amnesty International condemns the hanging in Iran of a youth for a crime committed when he was under 18 years old.
Drought heightens West Bank water woes
The civil trial opens of an ex-US marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees in Falluja, in the first case of its kind.
At least 13 people are hurt in a fire at the upper house of the Egyptian parliament in Cairo, officials say.
Egyptian police shoot dead a Sudanese man trying to cross illegally into Israel, Egyptian officials say.
A bomb attack on a police college east of Algiers kills 43 people and injures 38, according to Algeria's interior ministry.
Bahrain's Rashid Ramzi holds off Asbel Kiprop down the final straight to win the 1500m at the Beijing Olympics.
Hamas-Israel truce brings little relief to the Gaza Strip
The governor of Diyala province says his secretary was killed in an attack by a unit of the security forces on his office in Baquba.
A rare insight into the world of Israel's Haredi Jews
The impact of a century of oil production on Iran
Tim Franks considers a very Israeli art exhibition
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