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GAZA, May 21 (UPI) -- Israel has expanded the designated fishing zone off Gaza from 3 to 6 nautical miles in the Mediterranean Sea, the Israeli army said.
HAIFA, Israel, May 21 (UPI) -- An Israeli army patrol vehicle was damaged from gunfire fired across the border from Syria, the army said.
Kerry objects to Israel legalizing outposts
JERUSALEM, May 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry lodged a protest over Israel's decision to legalize four West Bank outposts, officials said.
JERUSALEM, May 21 (UPI) -- Israel, at the last minute, postponed the visit of a UNESCO delegation to Jerusalem's Old City, a Foreign Ministry official said.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 21 (UPI) -- The Church of Scotland's General Assembly Monday approved a compromise that allows congregations who want to have gay ministers to do so.
LONDON, May 21 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron Monday was able to sidestep a Conservative revolt on gay marriage with help from Labor Party leader Ed Miliband.
PORTSMOUTH, England, May 21 (UPI) -- The Ark Royal, the aircraft carrier that was for many years the flagship of the British navy, left Portsmouth for the last time Monday for a Turkish scrap yard.
QENA, Egypt, May 20 (UPI) -- An Egyptian middle school student was arrested after bringing a machine gun to school Monday and shooting a fellow student in the arm, police said.
TROLLHATTAN, Sweden, May 20 (UPI) -- A Swedish town has agreed to pay a man civil damages after an official said he couldn't have an internship if he wasn't comfortable shaking hands with women.
LONDON, May 20 (UPI) -- British police said they searched parliamentary offices of the House of Commons deputy speaker after allegations he sexually assaulted three men.
LYON, France, May 20 (UPI) -- French police said a British man involved in a custody dispute with his ex-wife admitted slashing the throats of his two young children.
MOSCOW, May 20 (UPI) -- Russian police said they killed two suspected terrorists and captured a third in a shootout outside Moscow Monday.
EDMONTON, Alberta, May 20 (UPI) -- Police in Edmonton, Alberta, said they arrested the driver of a car that ran into a patio restaurant table, killing a 2-year-old boy.
Rural Cameroon suffers from lack of telecommunications structure
IBOKO, Cameroon (GPI)-- Without access to mobile phone networks or radio broadcasts, villagers in the Ngolo tribal areas of Cameroon say that the government has forgotten them. The government has ambitious plans for development by 2035. But telecommunications projects are slow to take hold in the country’s most rural areas.
GLASGOW, Scotland, May 20 (UPI) -- Police in Glasgow, Scotland, say they are investigating complaints a night club has a mirror in a women's restroom, allowing male patrons to see inside.
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner Returns to Service
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United and Boeing employees perform a ground check on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner after a flight from Houston at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on May 20, 2013. The Houston-to-Chicago flight landed without incident and marked the return to service of United-owned Dreamliners after the airliner was grounded for 100 days by aviation regulators worldwide due to the overheating of onboard batteries. UPI/Brian Kersey