Israeli airstrikes killed at least 14 Palestinians in three separate attacks in the Gaza Strip yesterday, taking the weekend death toll to 102, Palestinian medics said, as US and Arab mediators stepped up efforts to conclude a ceasefire deal.

New Orleans mourned, wept and danced at a vigil Saturday evening along the famous thoroughfare where a man rammed a pickup truck into a crowd, killing and injuring revellers who were there to celebrate the new year.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli air strike last year while inside the militant group's war operations room, according to new details disclosed by a senior official.

Former Greek prime minister Costas Simitis, who led the country into the European Union's single currency in 2001, died on Sunday aged 88 at his summer house in the Peloponnese.