The Israeli air force shot down an unarmed and unidentified drone today after it entered the country's airspace from the Mediterranean Sea, an army spokesman reported.
Daily life is gradually returning to normal in the Turkish border town of Akçakale, where a Syrtian mortar struck a house Oct. 3, killing five civilians.
Rebels seized a Syrian village near the Turkish border after hours of fierce fighting today in which 25 troops and three insurgents were killed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Pope Benedict XVI's former butler Paolo Gabriele today got 18 months in prison for stealing secret documents from the Vatican that reveal fraud and intrigue in the tiny state.