Saudi shells hit an international humanitarian aid office in northern Yemen, killing five Ethiopian refugees and wounding ten, a local official says.

Laden was fixated on attacking US targets and pressured al Qaeda groups to heal local rivalries and focus on that cause,according to documents the US says were seized in his hideout in Pakistan.

Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners, recruiting extra staff to carry out an increasing number of death sentences, usually done by public beheading.

A Saudi-led coalition has resumed its air strikes against Yemen's rebels after the end of a ceasefire, Yemeni military officials and witnesses say.

The Islamic State group on Thursday released an audio message purportedly from its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has not been seen or heard from in months.

Two Bangladesh nationals die in Najran area, South Eastern province of Saudi Arabia, 650km away from Jeddah and 50km from Yemen border, by mortar shells launched by Houthi rebels of Yemen.

Rebels in Yemen say they will respond "positively" to a ceasefire offer by the Saudi-led coalition that has been carrying out air strikes against them.

Yemen urges the UN to authorise use of foreign ground forces to drive back Houthi rebels, specifically in the cities of Aden and Taiz.

Yemen's rebels fire rockets into Saudi Arabia, killing at least three people and purportedly capturing five soldiers in an attack showing insurgents' ability to launch assaults.

The Saudi-led coalition carrying out air strikes in Yemen has used US-supplied cluster bombs banned by much of the world, a rights group has said.

The civilian death toll from fighting and airstrikes since the bombing started on March 26 reaches an estimated 551 people,United Nations says.

THE airstrikes undertaken by a Saudi-led coalition against targets in Yemen may usher a new phase in one of the longest, most destructive, and most confused conflicts to affect the Middle East and much of the Muslim world: the Saudi-Iranian confrontation.

Two air strikes in Yemen has killed at least 40 people, most of them civilians and has wounded dozens of others, medical sources said.

A total of 136 more Bangladeshi nationals, who were evacuated from Hodeida, Yemen to Djibouti on 16 April by an Indian Naval Ship, reach Dhaka.

More 136 Bangladeshis returns from Yemen by a special flight of national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines tonight.

Twenty nine more Bangladeshi nationals have been evacuated from Sana, the capital of the war-torn Yemen, by International Organization for Migration.

The 337 Bangladeshis, who were evacuated recently from strife-torn Yemen and brought to south Indian port city of Kochi by two ships, reach home. Two special fights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Bangladeshis land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka around 4:30am and 5:15am.

A total of 337 Bangladeshi nationals, who were evacuated from war-torn Yemen last week, are expected to return home Sunday.

Evacuated last week from war-torn Yemen, 337 Bangladeshis, who were on the way to Cochin port of Kerala in India, will return home by Biman Bangladesh Airlines tomorrow.

Five more Bangladeshi nationals comes back home after being evacuated from war-torn Yemen. This is the third batch of stranded Bangladeshis who came back to the country after evacuation. Twenty-one were brought home earlier.