Between distractions, diversions and the flickering allure of a random suggestion, the major computer platforms aim to keep us glued to our screens come what may.
Kyoto, Japan’s ancient former capital, is home to temples, shrines, and imperial gardens.
The Polish government is reconsidering whether to exhume human remains at a World War II-era site where Jews were burned alive by Polish neighbors...
The world had almost 200,000 ultra-high-net worth individuals last year, according to the broker’s wealth study...
Luminaries were some of the best-known pioneers who shaped modern Zionism and the State of Israel.
Eight start-ups presented their innovative solutions to IAG executives during a dedicated pitch day at Tel Aviv’s newly-opened WeWork ToHa.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is set to condemn Israel’s “occupation” of the Golan Heights in Geneva as it wraps up its month-long 40th session.
For the 19th year in a row, about 1,000 people took part in a march commemorating Latvian Legion, who were Nazi collaborators...
The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Gaza border protests has created a confidential file of Israelis who it holds could be culpable of killing peaceful Palestinians...
Declining attendance at America’s churches—a persistent trend in recent decades—has forced some to take a novel approach to keeping their doors open...
A strong majority of people in wealthy countries want to tax the rich more and there is broad support for building up the welfare state in most countries...
Alphabet Inc unit Google was fined 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion), its third large European Union antitrust penalty in two years...
Finland topped the ranking of the world’s happiest countries for the second year in a row, with the Nordic countries taking the leading spots, an annual survey showed.
The race to build the next generation of super-fast mobile-data networks has begun in Germany, which started auctioning off its spectrum licenses for 5G.
Rwanda has proposed the world’s first countrywide DNA database, a project that will involve collecting samples from all of the country’s 12 million citizens...
Paris and Hong Kong for the first time joined Singapore as the world’s most expensive cities to live in...
The annual Templeton Prize was awarded to Brazilian Marcelo Gleiser—a theoretical physicist dedicated to demonstrating science and religion are not enemies.
Voters in Toledo approved a “Lake Erie Bill of Rights” as an amendment to the city charter...
For the past couple of years a big story about the future of China has been the focus of both fascination and horror.
Nearly a third of Britain’s billionaires have either moved or are relocating to tax havens...
Voters in Toledo approved a “Lake Erie Bill of Rights” as an amendment to the city charter...
Behold “Beresheet”—the lander that [took] off from Cape Canaveral on board a Space-X Falcon 9 rocket.
Japanese car maker Honda is set to announce it’s closing its only British car plant in 2022 with the loss of 3,500 jobs...
Amazon, which doubled its profits and made more than $11 billion in 2018, won’t pay any federal income taxes for the second year in a row...
Voters in Toledo approved a “Lake Erie Bill of Rights” as an amendment to the city charter...
A group of Israeli activists are calling on the government to establish a synagogue on the Temple Mount and open it for Jewish prayer.
People who were born and raised in Israel are not used to hearing that their upbringing is something to be envious of.
In the case of household consumption alone, 880,000 tons of food—valued at $2.2bn—was wasted last year.
Behold “Beresheet”—the lander that [took] off from Cape Canaveral on board a Space-X Falcon 9 rocket.
As Egypt’s population heads towards 100 million, the government is trying to change the minds of people.
India’s Supreme Court has ordered its government to evict a million people from their homes—for the good of the country’s wildlife.
Amnesty International has long sought to isolate Israel by lobbying governments...
The online startup can’t retrieve about C$190 million ($145 million) in Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether and other digital tokens held for its customers...
Germany needs at least 260,000 new migrant workers per year until 2060 in order to meet labor shortages caused by demographic decline, according to a study.
About 530,000 families each year are financially ruined by medical bills and sicknesses.
A Dutch publisher that created school textbooks accusing Israelis of ethnic cleansing has released a new one omitting Jerusalem’s significance to Jews.
Nearly every week I read about a dazzling new Israeli high-tech or medical invention.
Lithuania sees Israel as a “strategic partner not only in the Middle East, but in the entire world,” Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said.
U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp has bid $5.5-$6 billion in cash and stock to buy Israel’s Mellanox Technologies, Israeli media reported.
Despite technologies, regulations, and policies to make humanity less of a strain on the earth, people just won’t stop reproducing.
