In a documentary that premiered in Rome, Pope Francis called for the passage of civil union laws for same-sex couples...
The United Arab Emirates has betrayed the Islamic world and the Palestinians by reaching a deal toward normalizing ties with Israel...
Turkey is rapidly expanding its rocket-engine capabilities in an effort to build its weapons industry.
Some 52% of COVID-19 patients over the age of 65 in Israel are ultra-Orthodox...
Human rights groups hailed the snub to Riyadh, which deals a blow to the kingdom’s attempts to improve its image in the international community.
In South Korea, churches resumed in-person services and stadiums welcomed sports fans as the country once again manages to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
A Jordanian army officer was airlifted to Israel for urgent medical treatment...
After opting against lockdown measures throughout the coronavirus pandemic...
The scion of one of the world’s most privileged families, he wrapped himself in the trappings of royalty, wealth and a comfortable hideaway thousands of miles from his subjects.
The Netherlands and Denmark have cemented their positions as having the best pension systems in the world...
Coronavirus passport trials are taking place at Heathrow to test technology to let people travel the globe without risk of being quarantined.
Global Athlete, a sports advocacy organization that seeks to advance the rights of athletes...
What are the biggest Covid-19 concerns associated with flying?
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan opened the Turkish parliament’s legislative session with a long speech that addressed the city of Jerusalem...
A synagogue has opened for the first time in Obninsk, a city near Moscow that was built in 1945 to accommodate the staff of the world’s first nuclear power plant.
Tel Aviv has been named the fifth-most creative city in the world...
A year after the Defense Ministry and the US Army signed a deal for two Iron Dome missile defense batteries, the first battery has been delivered.
This tiny wealthy country on France’s southeastern coast is famous for its beautiful beaches, coastal mansions and splendid casinos.
The Swiss city of Geneva is to introduce a minimum wage of 23 Swiss francs ($25) an hour...
There are many challenges to applying facial recognition technology to animals.
The job of harvesting cauliflowers could one day be in the mechanical hands of robots...
Three concepts for the world’s first zero-emission commercial aircraft have been unveiled by Airbus.
Chandler Guo was a pioneer in cryptocurrency, the digital currencies that can be created and used independently of national central banks and governments.
Abortion has been available throughout Germany since the 1970s but the number of doctors carrying out the procedure is now in decline.
Pope Francis addressed the representatives of the 193-member world body.
The Bank of England indicated that it could cut interest rates below zero for the first time in its 326-year history...
A statistics report published on the eve of Rosh Hashanah estimated the population of Israel to be about 9.246 million...
Nearly two thirds of people in leading Western European countries would consider augmenting the human body with technology to improve their lives...
A Swiss region will ask citizens to vote on a proposal to incorporate the fundamental rights of primates into their constitution...
What would happen if archaeologists could excavate tears?
Germany’s dog owners will soon to be ordered by law to walk their pets twice a day.
Scientists have created gene-edited pigs, goats and cattle to produce sperm with traits such as disease resistance and higher meat quality...
A team of researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, has built a bionic device that they say can restore vision to the blind through a brain implant.
There have been a handful of key events over the last century that fundamentally altered the world order...
Cuba has a lot of experience in vaccine research.
The Knesset approved a bill to ban psychologists from practicing conversion therapy in Israel, amid a stormy plenum vote.
Israel has privately expressed concerns to the Trump administration about a new nuclear facility reportedly built in the Saudi desert with Chinese help, Israeli officials said.
The arresting officers came for the young man about a month after he was declared free of the coronavirus and discharged from the hospital.
Archaeologists from the City of David did not expect to find anything this special when they began digging near what is now the Armon Hanatziv Promenade.
Caroline Wellbery’s father, the late German literary scholar Egon Schwarz, fled Austria with his family after the Nazis annexed the country in 1938, when he was 15.
Since 1970, the law, and its accompanying aliyah benefits, have applied to anyone with a Jewish grandparent.
