Israeli and Palestinian officials pledged to de-escalate surging violence after meeting on Sunday, issuing a joint statement in which Israel said it would halt discussions about new settlement units in the occupied West Bank for four months.
The cartoon Dilbert has been dropped from numerous U.S. newspapers in response to a racist rant by its creator on YouTube.
Forty-five people died, including some children, when a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants crashed against rocks on the southern Italian coast early on Sunday, authorities said.
The decision that Camilla, the Queen Consort, will wear Queen Mary's 1911 crown at the coronation in May effectively eliminated potential controversy over whether the crown placed on Camilla's head would include the famed — and contested — Koh-i-Noor diamond.
