Swedish film-maker Malik Bendjelloul, who shot to fame with his Oscar-winning documentary, "Searching for Sugar Man", has died aged 36. Swedish police said the director had died in the capital Stockholm on Tuesday, but would not specify where his body was found or the cause of...

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in the Saudi Arabia Tuesday, the first leg of a regional tour focusing on Iran's nuclear programme and Syria's civil war. Hagel will hold talks with Saudi officials and on Wednesday he will meet Gulf Cooperation Council defence ministers...

(Reuters) - Kidnappers freed Jordan's ambassador to Libya and he said on his arrival home on Tuesday that in exchange his government had sent back to Tripoli a Libyan Islamist militant who had been serving a life sentence for a bombing plot. Jordan's foreign minister said...

US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in London this week, the first time since peace talks collapsed last month, officials said Monday. "Secretary Kerry will meet with president Abbas in London on Thursday," State Department spokeswoman Jen...