An Indonesian air liner has crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta with 189 people on board. Fears for passengers and crew aboard the Lion Air Boeing 737 jet were growing as search-and-rescue workers attempted to sift through wreckage in waters up to 35m deep....

Mohammad Al Arabi's borrowed ute arrives before dawn at Beirut's Burg Hammoud sports stadium. His wife and three boys sit in the low-slung tray of the white Toyota, wedged between a tall load of suitcases, plastic bags stuffed full with clothes, a microwave, a rug and even a giant pink...

Dozens of people from across Mexico who are searching for missing relatives this week journeyed to the city of Guadalajara, where a scandal has erupted over a truck full of unidentified bodies that overflowed local morgues. A wave of violence linked to powerful drug cartels has sent the...

  An Israeli firm says it has sold US customers hundreds of its bullet-proof schoolbags, introduced in the wake of the Parkland school massacre. "We designed a bullet-proof backpack at the request of our distributors in the United States after the huge trauma caused by the...