A pilot of a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight accidentally pressed an emergency alarm, creating a hijack scare and triggering a major security response at Manila airport on Tuesday, authorities said.

The governor of Homs said late on Monday the planned evacuation of several hundred Syrian rebels from their last foothold in the city would be postponed for several days because it was difficult to guarantee their safe passage.

Syrian government troops, supported by Russian air forces, repelled an offensive by militants on the northern fringes of Syria's largest city of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing 40 attackers, RIA news agency quoted Russia's Defence Ministry as saying.

A Palestinian armed with a knife attempted to stab an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and was shot and killed, the Israeli army said.

Israeli forces yesterday killed two Palestinians in the West Bank, police said, and two Israeli police officers were stabbed in occupied East Jerusalem in a resurgence of violence now into its fourth day.

Air raids hit aid trucks near the city of Aleppo yesterday, a monitoring group reported, as the Syrian military declared that a week-long ceasefire was over.

Visitors look at electric cars on the first day of the ‘Inter Solar Connecting Solar Business’ exhibition, the annual Intersolar Middle East forum for professionals in the solar power industry, in Dubai.

Staff at a hospital in eastern Saudi Arabia have gone on strike over unpaid wages, workers said on Monday, in the kingdom's latest case of corporate financial difficulties.

Saudi Arabia said on Monday it has smashed three cells linked to the Islamic State group which planned to attack military facilities and other targets and has also detained 17 suspects.

Ride-hailing services such as Uber and others will have to register their apps and heed new regulations to operate in Abu Dhabi, a top official at the Gulf emirate's taxi regulator said on Monday.

Amnesty International said Monday a US-made bomb was used in an air strike on a hospital in Yemen, urging Washington and London to stop supplying the Saudi-led coalition with weapons.

A truce brokered by the United States and Russia has "practically failed and has ended" and there is no hope that aid will be delivered to rebel-held eastern Aleppo, a Syrian rebel official said on Monday.