GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israel reopened its only goods crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in response to relative calm on the border after months of tensions prompted a blockade on most goods

A large explosion has gone off in front of an educational centre in the west of the Afghan capital, Kabul. A spokesman for Afghanistan's ministry of public health told Al Jazeera at least 25 people

At least 22 children have drowned in Sudan when their boat sank in the Nile while they were on their way to school, according to official media. A woman also died when the vessel went

The Afghan military has made significant gains against the Taliban in Ghazni city. The assault began on Friday and at least 400 people have been killed, a quarter of them civilians. There is still

Since the conflict in Syria began in 2011, the government has been accused of "forcibly disappearing" tens of thousands of people, many of them peaceful protesters who later died or were killed in detention.

About two million people in Yemen are living with some type of disability, and the International Red Cross (IRC) says thousands of people have lost a limb or suffered some other severe injury since

A dangerous mix of economic and political forces has triggered a crisis in Turkey and other emerging markets. Turkey is just the latest developing economy to plunge into chaos. The Turkish lira has shed

Buying a home in New Zealand just got a lot tougher for most people. The country's parliament on Wednesday passed a law banning foreigners from buying into most parts of its residential property market

A top Silicon Valley fund that helped launch major startups like Airbnb and Dropbox is setting its sights on China. Startup accelerator Y Combinator has tapped Qi Lu, a former Baidu (BIDU) and Microsoft

Co-founders of Tinder and eight other former and current executives of the popular dating app are suing the service's current owners, alleging that they manipulated the valuation of the company to deny them of