The step, confirmed several weeks ago by the Israel's anti-settlement Peace Now movement, has had no impact on construction already under way in settlements - projects that have raised Palestinian concern and drawn international condemnation. Read Article Israel has frozen building in settlements, housing minister says
Israel is moving forward with plans for more than 1,000 new homes in two West Bank settlements, a watchdog said yesterday in a move denounced by the Palestinians as an "abortion" of US peace efforts. Read Article Israel pushes plans for 1,000 new homes in West Bank
The Life: Red threads mean the embroiderer is a married woman; pictures of pines and rivers talk of the Palestinian northland; tents point to the drier south; it all adds up to development aid from a fashion house called Palestyle. Read Article A charity's Palestinian fabric
Israel has completed an investigation into a decade-old French TV report that claimed Israeli forces killed a Palestinian boy in a gunbattle with Palestinian militants, saying the video was misleading and unfairly blamed Israel. Read Article Israel denies its forces killed Palestinian boy
As Palestinians around the world recently marked the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war over Israel's 1948 creation, the refugees in Gezirat Al Fadel say they have it worse than others who fled to Jordan, Syria or Lebanon. Read Article Palestinians in Egypt exiled, forgotten
The Dubai-based graffiti stencil artist Steffi Bow, who has created a life-size artwork of the Lebanese rapper Malikah for an adidas campaign, talks about how picking up a spray can five years ago changed her life.
Dubai's Steffi Bow is a girl with a graffiti habit
The United States and the Afghan government announce they will hold talks with the Taliban in Doha this week aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan. US to hold peace talks with Taliban
A culinary map of the variety of Indian food organised by Indian states in just the two-kilometre radius of Karama in Dubai - often billed Little India. With map. A guide to Karama's Indian restaurants state by state
The days of taking one picture at a time on real film, rather than a disk, have never lost their romance. Neither have the images, a website is proving. Rym Ghazal reports Snapshots tell of the way we were
