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 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
Israel plans to declare legal four unauthorised West Bank settler outposts, a court document showed yesterday, days before US secretary of state John Kerry returns to the region to try to restart peace talks.
Read Article Israel to authorise four West Bank settler outposts
Palestinians mark the loss of their ancestral homeland and their dispersion across the Middle East from the establishment of the state of Israel 65 years ago. Hugh Naylor reports from Ramallah Read Article Palestinians mark 'Day of Catastrophe'
A sprawling amusement park on the outskirts of Gaza City exemplifies the businesses Hamas has created in the territory that it has controlled for six years. Hugh Naylor reports from Beit Lahia Read Article Hamas denies ownership of Gaza City amusement park
Leading Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef Al Qaradawi paid a high-profile visit to Gaza yesterday, giving a boost to the Islamist group Hamas that runs the territory, but also laying bare Palestinian rivalries. Read Article Influential Muslim cleric visits Hamas-ruled Gaza
Jerusalem's top Muslim leader arrested after 'clash' at holy site, angering Palestinians and prompting Jordan's parliament to unanimously call for bill to annul the 1994 Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty. Hugh Naylor reports from Ramallah Read Article Israel detains Jerusalem's grand mufti, enraging Muslims
Win an invitation for you and a guest for a celebration of all things decadent to be held at Maison Sez in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, June 26. Win - A night with The National
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
British scientists have discovered a vaccine that creates an immunity to Traveller's Diarrhoea - the global curse with a handful of names, but one certain unpleasant effect. Vaccine set to vanquish Delhi belly
A zoo in Russia is home to a unique animal – the liliger. That's a big cat breed where the father is a lion and the mother is a lion-tiger hybrid, called a liger. In pictures: Lililger cubs in Russia
