The Associated Press

Nabil Qassis says he decided to quit after his proposed austerity measures were struck down; Palestinian Authority's 2013 budget deficit expected to reach $1.4 billion.

Remarks come against backdrop of a strategic victory for Assad's regime, as Syrian forces take control of villages along strategic supply route to the northern part of the country.

Miami maintains lead in Eastern Conference, San Antonio still best in West

Manchester United tramples Norwich City on path to the Premier League title.

Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, leader of North African Al-Qaida group, reportedly killed by Chadian troops in northern Mali.

Violence in cities of Mansoura and Port Said came as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Cairo talking with opposition figures ahead of his Sunday meeting with President Morsi.

Rabbi Leib Glanz sentenced for lying to the U.S. government in order to defraud it of more than $36,000 in federal housing grants.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says comments by Turkey's Erdogan equating Zionism to crime against humanity are 'objectionable.'

Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich denounces Obama administrations move, cites concern for 'inevitable sufferings of ordinary Syrians'

Show precedes Sotheby's auction in New York; sale’s star work is Frankfurt Mishneh Torah, a 15th-century illuminated Hebrew manuscript priced to sell for at least $4.5 million.

The Lebanese Football Association concluded that players took money from betting companies to lose domestic and other matches in Asia.

Lew, who had served as Obama's chief of staff, will replace Timothy Geithner, according to a source; Lew has close working relationships with Israeli envoy to the U.S. and Deputy FM Danny Ayalon and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz.

Hikind, a longtime and outspoken opponent of anti-Semitism, dressed up as an African-American for the Jewish holiday of Purim, sporting a basketball jersey, a wig of curly black hair and blackface.

Once home to some 300,000 Jews, Morocco is increasingly taking a fresh look at its long history with Judaism and spurning the flat rejection of all things Hebrew found in so many other Arab countries.

Orthodox Jew cited religious reasons for ignoring 2005 law.

Democratic assemblyman Dov Hikind initially said he meant no offense when he wore black-face makeup, an Afro wig, and a basketball jersey to a costume party.

Syrian TV reports many wounded in blast; incident comes after a series of car bombs in central Damascus last week, the most serious of which killed at least 60 people, according to activists.

Syrian FM Walid al-Moallem, who is in Moscow to discuss Syria's civil war with Russian officials, did not say whether the rebels would first have to lay down their arms before Damascus would agree to sit with them at the negotiating table.

Two films by Israeli and Palestinian directors, The Gatekeepers and 5 Broken Cameras, are among five films competing for best documentary.

In pontificate's final Sunday speech, pope thanks crowd assures he will spend remaining years in prayer.

Violence intensifies in Aleppo area as Assad's forces attempt to reverse recent losses to Syrian rebel forces.

One Palestinian reportedly taken to hospital after being shot with live bullets; 30-year-old Palestinian prisoner dies of a heart attack while incarcerated in Megiddo jail.

Nobel laureate Mohammed ElBaradei says he will not take part in a 'sham democracy' as four-stage vote set to begin on April 28.

According to Palestinian demonstrators, clashes began when a group of Jewish settlers chased a Palestinian farmer and his family off land in the village of Kusra; IDF: Jewish settler shot live rounds.

Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guard, meanwhile, begins three-day ground and air military exercise aimed at upgrading its combat readiness.