Bombers in capital Sanaa blow themselves up during Friday prayers at two mosques used by supporters of Shia rebels, killing 126 and wounding 260.
British nationals in Yemen are told to leave the country “immediately” as British diplomats are withdrawn and embassy operations shut down.
Yemen is currently without a president and a government after Shia rebels took over the capital Sana’a causing ramifications for the region and the US’s war on terror.
Protesters numbering in their thousands take to the streets of Yemen’s capital Sanaa in the biggest demonstration yet against the Houthi group dominating the country.
Fighters from a Shia militant group are in de facto control of Yemen after seizing the presidential residence overnight, but have stopped short of declaring a full blown coup.
Yemen’s information minister says the house of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi is being shelled by “militias seeking to overthrow the ruling system”.
Yemen’s Houthi movement fought battles with the army near the presidential palace in Sana’a, drawing accusations that the militia fighters were mounting a coup.
Armed Shia militants belonging to Yemen’s Houthi movement have seized Yemeni President Abd-Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s chief of staff in the capital city Sanaa.
About 30 people are killed and more than 50 wounded after a car bomb explodes outside a police college in Yemen’s capital Sanaaa, in an attack carrying the hallmark of al-Qaeda.
Luke Somers, a British-born photojournalist held hostage by al-Qaeda in Yemen, is killed in a failed rescue attempt.
A US man was left gasping for air for almost two hours after his lethal injection execution went wrong, leading to calls for the return of the firing squad.
Jonathan Rugman
Ibrahim Hassan Al-Asiri can lay claim to being the most world’s most dangerous man. And he has been linked to bomb fears which have seen the US step up airport security.
Abu Hamza, the extremist cleric, has claimed in court that he was working with British intelligence “to keep the streets of London safe” while preaching hatred in the UK.
As a Japanese man is released after 48 years on death row – a new report shows that publicly disclosed executions jumped nearly 15 per cent in 2013.
This week Senator John McCain moved to shift control of US drones from the CIA to the defence department. Meanwhile, fears grow about the application of activity-based intelligence to drones.