India will issue at least 27,000 more Emergency Certificates to enable its citizens to leave Saudi Arabia for home after a new labour policy came into force in the Gulf Kingdom.

London's Heathrow airport closed both its runways on Friday morning after an emergency landing.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck 255 kilometres (158 miles) southwest of Tonga on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey, but there were no reports of damage.

In a suspected terror attack, a person believed to be a British soldier was on Wednesday beheaded near a barrack by two reported Islamists who were later shot and wounded by the police.

British Prime Minister David Cameron called an emergency security meeting on Wednesday after a man was killed near an army barracks in London, and two men were shot and wounded by police.

Saudi Arabia has arrested 10 people on suspicion of espionage for Iran, the Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday.

While maintaining its earlier position on Syria, US has said the only outcome that is right for the people of west Asian country is the transition from the Assad era to a post-Assad era and strongly believed that Bashar al-Assad has no place in the country's future.

Iranian legislative body has approved eligibility of eight Presidential candidates for the June 14 poll in the country.

A gunman shot dead four people in a bank in Israel on Monday after being refused an overdraft and cash from its automatic teller machine.

A wave of attacks killed at least 95 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Tuesday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 240 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years.