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JERUSALEM (AP) — Schools in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv have postponed class trips to Jerusalem this week because of heightened tensions in the city, Tel Aviv officials said Sunday. JERUSALEM (AP) — Schools in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv have postponed class trips to Jerusalem this week because of heightened tensions in the city, Tel Aviv officials said Sunday.The municipality of Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial and cultural capital, said it honored a request by parents of 8th grade pupils to postpone a field trip planned for most Tel Aviv schools this week because it included visits to areas where violence recently occurred. Last week a Palestinian motorist with a history of anti-Israel violence slammed his car into a crowded light rail train station, killing a 3-month-old girl who was a U.S. citizen and wounding eight people. The municipality said pupils were scheduled to visit a nearby site.

HONOLULU (AP) — Flowing lava from an erupting volcano could soon force dozens of residents of an area in Hawaii to flee their homes. Authorities on Saturday told them to prepare for a possible evacuation in the next three to five days as the molten rock oozed across a country road and edged closer to homes. The flow was about 35 yards wide and moving northeast at about 10 yards per hour.

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — The Lebanese army brought tanks and commando forces into the northern city of Tripoli Sunday, where fighting with Muslim militants has intensified and spread to nearby areas. Several tanks, armored personnel carriers and Humvees carrying commandos arrived on the edge of the Bab Tabbaneh neighborhood, where clashes were heaviest. Intense gunfire exchanges and sporadic explosions rang out across the neighborhood, the worst fighting Tripoli has seen for months.

Mahassan Issa and her new partner Mohammed Mahassan Issa, 29, was on the run in Lebanon with Mohammed Awick for two and a half months after her estranged husband in Australia, Bassem Abou Lokmeh, told authorities they were married and she was there to wed another man. She also revealed her husband's demands in exchange for dropping the charges included cash, their home and other assets. She had met Mohammed, who lives in Lebanon, through his sister after being separated from her husband of nine years. She claims the official separation began in September last year, which he denies. Mahassan's husband and family refused to allow a divorce and eventually she fled to see Mohammed. "He was a supporter of me. He was very kind and compassionate."

Customs officials use a thermometer to screen passengers at the arrival hall of Murtala Mohammed International airport in Lagos, Nigeria. AN Australian man who recorded an elevated temperature has been told to stay at his home in Thailand after returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 49 people have died of Ebola. The unnamed 47-year-old returned to Thailand on October 17 from the DRC, where he works in the oil-drilling industry. He lives in Trat province, 312km southeast of Bangkok.

The Ebola-stricken New York doctor’s condition worsened Saturday as health officials confirmed he was being treated with an experimental drug.

BOTSWANA'S ruling party has won re-election despite a vigorous challenge from the opposition, extending its decades-old hold on the southern African country, an election official says. THE Botswana Democratic Party secured at least 29 parliamentary seats out of 57 directly contested seats, meaning it had enough support to form a government, said Osupile Maroba, a spokesman for Botswana's election commission.

An Afghan mullah has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping a girl, officials say. The cleric had taught the 11-year-old girl at a local mosque in the northern city of Kunduz, police said. "The rape took place in May in the mosque," said Waisuddin Talash, a police official in the province of the same name. Talash said that the case was referred to a Kabul court, which issued its sentence on Saturday. Rights activists had demanded a tougher sentence.

Cameroonian troops killed 39 Boko Haram fighters in clashes with the Islamists, who were carrying out three raids on Cameroon's territory, the defence ministry said Sunday. Friday's fighting in the far north of Cameroon near Nigeria also claimed four civilian lives, the ministry said in a statement sent to AFP. Boko Haram rebels, who have been waging attacks in northern Nigeria and who kidnapped more than 200 school girls there in April, frequently cross into neighbouring Cameroon.

Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate threatened Sunday to kill Lebanese soldiers it captured in fighting in August unless the army halts its operations against Islamist militants in Lebanon's second city Tripoli. Al-Nusra Front, which has previously executed one captive Lebanese soldier, issued its threat after troops cleared militants from Tripoli's historic central market district on Saturday in an operation that left one civilian and one militant dead.

A 26-year-old Iranian woman who spent five years on death row for the murder of a former intelligence official has been executed, defying international pressure to spare her life. Reyhaneh Jabbari walked to the gallows in Tehran's Evin prison, after failing to secure a reprieve from the murder victim's relatives within the 10-day deadline set by sharia law, in force since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. She was sentenced to death in accordance with Koranic "qisas" - eye-for-an-eye law - after being found guilty of stabbing dead an older man, Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, with a kitchen knife in 2007. Tehran's prosecutor's office said Ms Jabbari was hanged at dawn, according to official IRNA news agency reports.

A patient has been isolated at a Brisbane hospital and is being tested for the Ebola virus after arriving from West Africa and developing a fever. The 18-year-old woman arrived 11 days ago, Queensland's chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said, and had until today been in home quarantine. However, she has now been transferred to an isolation unit at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. A first test result for the virus is expected early on Monday morning, while a second test will be carried out in three days' time. The woman, whom Dr Young did not name, is not a healthcare worker. She is from West Africa and was planning to stay in Australia indefinitely.

MARYSVILLE, Wash., Oct 26 (Reuters) - Members of the Tulalip Tribes community in Washington state say they are trying to comprehend how a life-long friendship among sports-loving cousins ended with one of them gunning down the other two, along with three female friends, in their high school cafeteria. The shooter and one girl, identified by a family friend as Zoe Galasso, were killed while the other freshmen students were gravely wounded in Friday's morning rampage at Marysville-Pilchuck High School north of Seattle.

Iraqi government forces retook four villages on Sunday near a mountain ridge overlooking Islamic State supply lines, security officials said, in a campaign which has struggled to make advances against the Sunni Islamist insurgents. Iraqi security forces backed by Shi'ite militias gained some momentum on Saturday in their bid to loosen the grip of Islamic State, which controls large swathes of territory in the north and west of the country. After months of fighting they drove Islamic State militants out of Jurf al-Sakhar, just south of Baghdad, while Kurdish fighters regained control over the town of Zumar in the north.

The word forgiveness according to the Oxford dictionary means ‘Stop feeling angry or resentful towards (someone) for an offence, flaw, or mistake; According to the Christians dictionary which is the bible, forgiveness or letting go,  simply mean  “forgiving as many times as you can,  as long as there’s a reason to”.- Matthew 18:22-25. Two types of forgiveness appear in the Bible: 1) God’s pardon of our sins- Psalm 103: 3, 12. 2) Our obligation to pardon others- Matthew 6:14-15. The subject of forgiveness is so vital to our eternal destiny. Forgiveness is an act of love. To forgive is not only to pardon, but in the end to love. God’s act of love towards mankind was to send his only son as a propitiation for our sins. That is a supreme act of love, the greatest sacrifice the universe has ever witnessed. -1John 4: 9-10. Often, we are too hard on ourselves, such that even after we have confessed our sins and received God’s forgiveness, we cannot forgive ourselves....

When life gets rough, it can often feel as if you can’t take anymore. It is a lonely world when you feel this way. It can be a struggle to look at the positive things. If it is a tough time for you right now, here are some things to remember: 1.Things are never as bad as they seem A problem can seem like the biggest thing in the world when you can’t see a way out of it. Try to clear your mind and think of a solution, if its a big problem, take small steps towards a solution. Can you remember something you were worried about a year ago? probably not, though at the time it took over your mind and distressed you, yet you found a way out. Do it again. 2.There is always someone worse off We all have something to be grateful for, even things that seem insignificant at the time. It is worth remembering, no matter how bad it gets, there is always someone in the world, who has it worse than you and would love to trade places. Count your blessings.

BAMAKO, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Mali will not close its border with neighbouring Guinea after a two-year-old girl infected with Ebola was brought across the frontier by her grandmother and died in Mali this week, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said on Saturday. The girl travelled hundreds of kilometres through Mali - including a stop in the capital Bamako - on public transport, potentially exposing many people to the virus, before she died in the western town of Kayes on Friday.

An 85-year-old wannabe sugar daddy who went to a website seeking kinky companionship wound up with double trouble instead, the Daily News has learned. The elderly Manhattan man was bound to a coffee table for 20 hours while the twin teenage vixens he had just wined and dined stole his credit cards and $470 in cash — and then went shopping for makeup, court papers revealed. Shalaine Foster and her sister Shaina, both 17, were busted Tuesday and each was charged with kidnapping, robbery, burglary, grand larceny and assault. The teens, who both have rap sheets, were ordered held without bail in Manhattan Criminal Court, records show. And their case has been referred to a grand jury.

When the only way to get an often fatal disease is through contact with body fluids, it makes good sense to be very careful about sexual partners and practices. But since Ebola victims can infect others only when they are showing symptoms -- high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness and aches -- physical intimacy probably isn't a common way of transmitting the disease. However, the Ebola virus can survive in semen for months after a man recovers from the infection, posing an ongoing threat to sexual partners long after he is well. At a time when a man's bloodstream is swimming with antibodies, and he is immune to the disease, he still may be able to infect others..Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids, but only after a patient begins showing symptoms, experts say.

The good news: You survived Ebola. The bad news: Health experts say you shouldn’t have sex for months. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends at least three months of abstinence for Ebola survivors, and urges condom use if you can’t hold out. The virus can linger in a victim’s semen for at least 70 days, according to the World Health Organization. It was not clear whether Dr. Craig Spencer, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in New York, was intimate with his fiancée since his Oct. 17 return from Guinea. She has been quarantined. Blood, vomit and feces are largely behind the rapid spread of the disease in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Transmission from semen, urine and breast milk is less common. Source:nydailynews

A mother poisoned herself and her two young daughters by drinking acid after falling out with her live-in mother and father-in-law, an inquest has heard. Heena Solanki, 34, was found dead in her bed alongside Jasmine, nine, and Prisha, four, by her widower at their home in Ruislip, west London.The biochemist had forced her two girls to drink the toxic substance and had strangled them before taking the poison and strangling herself.Her husband said.. 'Prior to her death I believed that Heena was happy and content,' he said. 'We lived a nice life with our two children, Jasmine and Prisha...