AFP – Wildfires that destroyed at least 28 homes in Australia were coming under control Sunday as a blistering heatwave that claimed dozens of lives eased, officials said.

… is folly. On November 29, 1947, the United Nations proposed a partition plan which would offer … of Israel, the Arab armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon invaded …

… with the most promising route passing through Syria. President Bush’s problem was that he loved … a more evenhanded way. Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, told me he was very …

An armed gang ransacks a synagogue in Venezuela, and demands that Jews are expelled from the country.

The Italian city of Venice launches a website to help it deal with the 15m tourist who visit every year.