French, Spanish and German leaders yesterday visited a makeshift rescue base near the site of the Germanwings air crash, as investigators stepped up their probe into the mysterious disaster that killed 150. French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel flew over the crash site to see the devastation for themselves before meeting rescue workers outside the crisis centre set up on Tuesday after the worst crash in France in four decades.

Italy's top court has put back a ruling on Amanda Knox's murder conviction to Friday, delaying what could be the final act of an eight-

A naval aircraft crashed off the western Indian coast leaving two pilots missing, the navy said yesterday. Rescue operations were

Benjamin Netanyahu will be asked to form Israel's next government later yesterday amid an escalating row with United States. Israel's

Pakistan yesterday hanged six prisoners condemned for murder, officials said, bringing the total executed since the death penalty was

A suicide car bomber killed seven people in Kabul yesterday as the Taliban warned that Washington's decision to slow the withdrawal

China has rejected calls from several foreign governments to free five women's rights activists who have spent nearly three weeks in detention.

A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near a district police headquarters close to Afghanistan's presidential palace in central Kabul killing at least seven people and wounding 22

Two crew members are missing since an Indian navy plane crashed into the sea off the western state of Goa.

30 militants allied to the Pakistani Taliban have been killed by Pakistani jet fighters in a missile attack in the mountainous northwestern of Khyber.

Fox officially announces that it's bringing The X-Files back as six-episode event series, reports CBS News

A cockpit voice recorder badly damaged when a German jetliner smashed into an Alpine mountainside and a crucial two-minute span when the pilot lost contact are vital clues into what caused the plane to go down, killing all 150 people on board

A tiny new tracker designed to monitor bee behaviour is being tested by ecologists at Kew Gardens in London

A Detroit mother is arrested after officials found two of her children dead inside her freezer

About 500 children aged 11 and under are missing from the Nigerian town, Damasak which has been recaptured from Islamist militants

A breakthrough in the development of temperature- resilient beans could help sustain a vital source of protein for millions of people around the globe

Thousands of people in Singapore are queuing to pay tribute to late statesman Lee Kuan Yew as he lies in state in parliament

Fighters from Yemen's Houthi rebel movement are advancing into southern Yemen, clashing with forces allied to President Abdrabbuh

Canada will extend its air strike campaign against Islamic State (IS) into Syria, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced.

China yesterday executed three people for a mass stabbing in Kunming that killed 31 people last year, the country's top court said, with