Two missiles fired from rebel-held territory in Yemen fell short of a US warship patrolling the Red Sea off the coast of the war-torn country, the US navy said Monday.

An Arab coalition intercepted two missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi group at targets in Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Marib province on Sunday, Saudi Arabian official media reported.

A Palestinian opened fire from a car in Jerusalem yesterday and again as Israeli police chased him, killing an officer and a woman, officials said, as fears grew of a new spike in violence.

Syrian government forces yesterday kept up their blistering assault on rebel-held eastern Aleppo after a divided UN Security Council failed to agree on a truce to save the war-battered city.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in Yemen said yesterday it will investigate an air raid that killed more than 140 people at a funeral, after Washington announced it was reviewing support for the alliance.

A collision between a truck driven by an Egyptian and a vehicle carrying three US soldiers in Kuwait was a ‘terrorist attack,’ not an accident as first thought, the embassy confirmed Sunday.

Thousands of Yemenis, many of them armed, gathered at the United Nations headquarters in Sanaa calling for an international investigation into an air strike on a wake this weekend that was widely blamed on Saudi-led forces.

A Palestinian opened fire from a car in Jerusalem on Sunday and again as Israeli police chased him, killing an officer and a woman, officials said, as fears grew of a new spike in violence.

An Indian businessman has paid $9mn at auction to grab a single-digit car registration plate in Dubai, feeding a passion for "unique" number plates.

Nine Turkish soldiers were killed and more than 20 people were wounded on Sunday when suspected Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb that ripped through a checkpoint near a police station in the country's southeast, security sources said.

A Palestinian opened fire from a car in Jerusalem on Sunday, wounding at least four people before police shot him dead, authorities said.

It was the fifth time Russia has used its veto on a UN resolution on Syria during the more than five-year conflict