No agreement on peace talks after Quartet meeting

The United States and its partners in the international diplomatic "quartet" on the Middle East failed on Monday to reach agreement on how to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

A senior US official said a Monday night meeting between Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was unable to produce a unified statement on how to proceed. (AP)