JERUSALEM, May 7 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ordered tenders for West Bank settlement construction frozen, Army Radio reported Tuesday.
MANILA, May 7 (UPI) -- Mount Mayon volcano in the Philippines erupted Tuesday, killing at least five hikers and injuring seven other people, authorities said.
JERUSALEM, May 7 (UPI) -- Israel and Turkey reached a draft accord to mend a three-year diplomatic crisis stemming from a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, officials said.
PYONGYANG, North Korea, May 7 (UPI) -- North Korea, in addition to withdrawing two mid-range missiles from its east coast, also has lifted its highest combat alert, a source told Yonhap News Tuesday.
BEIJING, May 7 (UPI) -- China expects to play a bigger role in the Middle East, analysts said, as new leader Xi Jinping hosted both Palestinian and Israeli leaders.
LONDON, May 7 (UPI) -- As many as 10,000 Kenyans could get compensation for mistreatment in British prison camps during the Mau Mau Uprising, officials say.
YORK, England, May 7 (UPI) -- About 100 people marched through York Monday, demanding King Richard III be buried in the English city where he governed as lord of the North.
LONDON, May 7 (UPI) -- Nigel Lawson, who served as Margaret Thatcher's chancellor of the exchequer, said Monday it is time for Britain to give up on the European Union.
BEIJING, May 6 (UPI) -- A subway line under construction collapsed in northwest China's Shaanxi province, killing five people, authorities said Tuesday.
BERLIN, May 6 (UPI) -- A 93-year-old German man was arrested Monday, suspected of committing war crimes while a Nazi death camp guard during World War II.
SHANGHAI, May 6 (UPI) -- Chinese consumers are buying less mutton from produce markets over fears it may turn out to be rat, fox or mink meat, a meat supplier says.
JOHANNESBURG, South Korea, May 6 (UPI) -- The South African detective who investigated the death of Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend says he is convinced the Olympian intentionally killed her.
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 6 (UPI) -- U.S. officials confirmed a video that surfaced of a cargo plane crashing in Afghanistan was that of a civilian cargo flight operated by National Airlines.
MILAN, Italy, May 6 (UPI) -- An Italian court Monday denied former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's request to relocate prostitution and tax evasion trials due to judicial bias.
PADSTOW, England, May 6 (UPI) -- British television executive Nick Milligan and his youngest daughter were killed in a speedboat accident near Padstow, England, officials said.
LONDON, May 6 (UPI) -- Nigel Evans, the gay British politician who was accused by two men of rape, got a vote of confidence from a former MP who said Evans should stay in office.
MADRID, May 6 (UPI) -- An air show pilot was killed when his vintage aircraft plunged to the ground and burst into flames during an exhibition in Madrid, officials said.
MOSCOW, May 6 (UPI) -- A helicopter carrying nine people and explosives used to blast ice dams in rivers crashed in Siberia's Irkutsk Region, Russia's Emergency Ministry said Monday.
ARUSHA, Tanzania, May 6 (UPI) -- Eight people, four Tanzanians and four Saudi nationals, were arrested Monday following a church bombing in the Tanzanian city of Arusha, police said.
DAMASCUS, Syria, May 6 (UPI) -- The U.N. panel looking into claims of human rights abuses in Syria backed off reports Monday it has evidence rebels used the nerve agent sarin gas.
Sarah Jessica Parker arrives on the red carpet at the Costume Institute Benefit for the "PUNK: Chaos to Couture" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on May 6, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo
