Isis: Islamic State deputy leader Abu Alaa al-Afri 'killed in Iraq air strike' by US-led coalition
BREAKING: Mosul-based physics teacher said to be leading IS after Baghdadi was wounded by US strike.
Malaysia: New boat with 500 desperate Rohingyas located off Penang
Emergency off Malaysian coast as fate of migrants' boats is unclear.
Philippines footwear factory fire: 60 workers feared dead in Manila suburb
At least 60 people trapped in rubber footwear factory blaze.
Amtrak train crash: Five killed and dozens injured as Philadelphia train derails
Front of the Washington-bound passenger train 'mangled up' according to witnesses.
Myanmar Rohingya migrants face starving to death in stranded boat near Malaysia
Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims left without food or water for three days in abandoned ship off Malaysia.
Nepal: Strong 7.4 magnitude earthquake strikes close to Everest
Strong quake hits Nepal west of Namche Bazaar with shockwaves felt as far away as New Delhi
Bangladesh: Third secular blogger hacked to death
Mukto-Mona writer Ananta Bijoy Das killed in northeastern Bangladesh by masked gang.
Yemen: Houthis claim downing of Moroccan F-16 jet
Footage on rebel-controlled TV shows Houthis celebrating amid wreckage of Moroccan jet.
Libya: Turkish cargo ship attacked near Libya's Tobruk port
Turkish ship's third captain killed by airstrikes off Tobruk.
Rohingya Muslims: Boats with 1,600 migrants land in Malaysia and Indonesia
New migrant arrivals in Malaysia and Indonesia, as thousands are stranded in international waters.
Yemen: Saudi Arabia announces five-day humanitarian truce
Humanitarian ceasefire will begin on 12 May to allow arrival of aid.
Yemen: Saudi Arabia retaliates against Houthi rebels after cross-border attacks
Saudi-led coalition pounds Shi'ite rebels in Saada as humanitarian ceasefire being considered.
Syria: 'Assad chlorine attack' reported in Idlib province as rebels gain ground
Rights group say Assad forces dropped gas-filled barrel bombs on three villages in north-western Syria.
Canada court frees ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr on bail
Khadr was captured in 2012 for killing a US soldier in Afghanistan.
Syria: Saudi-Turkish alliance backs 'Conquest Army' rebels to defeat Bashar al-Assad
Unlikely pact by Sunni powers provides financial and logistical support to anti-Assad groups in war-ravaged Syria.
Yemen crisis: Saudi Arabia considering humanitarian truce
Foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir opens door to US-brokered humanitarian pause to allow arrival of aid in war-ravaged country.
Netanyahu formed 'racist government of war' says Palestinian chief negotiator
Fresh coalition with hardline Bayit Yehudi party will seek settlement expansion says Saeb Erekat.
Yemen: Humanitarian catastrophe looms over stranded Eritrean refugees
Yemen in danger of plunging into a humanitarian crisis due to shortage of fuel, food, water and electricity.
Somali migrant aboard stricken Mediterranean boat: 'Help us. We're lost in the sea'
EXCLUSIVE: IBTimes UK interviews Somali migrant on rubber boat in distress carrying 102 people off Libya.
Mediterranean migrants crisis: 'Dozens drowned' in new tragedy off Libya
Witnesses tell Save the Children up to 40 migrants are feared to have died after incident on rubber boat.
Milan Expo 2015: Violent May Day protests at No Expo anti-capitalist demonstration
Milan: Police fired teargas against masked protesters who set cars and rubbish bins on fire
Sicily's Mineo migrant centre: Smugglers 'operative base' to northern Europe revealed
International network of human traffickers had its base at migrant holding camp near Catania.
Nepal earthquake: Thousands still missing as death toll passes 6,000
Fears grow for 3,000 unaccounted for in remote Gorkha district, near quake's epicentre.
Nepal earthquake: Woman pulled from rubble after spending 5 days alongside bodies
Krishna Kumari Khadka, 24, rescued after more than five days under wreckage.
Nepal earthquake: 15-year-old boy rescued from Kathmandu wreckage after five days
Pemba Tamang pulled from the rubble as quake death toll is past 5,000.
Iraqi cellist plays amid the rubble after Baghdad car bomb
Karim Wasfi's impromptu performance at the site of car bomb seeks to restore humanity amid destruction
Bali 9: Australia recalls ambassador after execution
Political fallout between Indonesia kills Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran
Iran seizes US cargo ship in Gulf: MV Maersk had no Americans on-board Marshall Island-flagged vessel, says Pentagon
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency said the vessel had been detained "for trespassing on Iran's territorial waters".
Mediterranean migrants meet the Mafia at Sicily's Kafkaesque Mineo camp
IBTimes UK investigates allegations of mistreatment at the Mineo hosting centre near Catania.
Nepal earthquake: Aid struggles to reach remote Gorkha villages near quake's epicentre
Gorkha district villages still unreachable after three days after 7.9 quake hit Nepal.
