The number of babies born in the second quarter totaled only 82,000, down 8.7 percent from a year ago.
According to recently released US federal contracting data, the Drug Enforcement Administration will be expanding the footprint of its nationwide surveillance network.
The European Parliament passed sweeping copyright legislation that, much like its privacy regulations, could have impact far beyond Europe.
There are fewer and fewer clinics and practices in Germany that perform abortions.
When it comes to providing patients with efficient treatment, Israel ranks among the world’s best, in sixth place.
India’s highest court ruled that the world’s largest biometric identification database doesn’t infringe on citizens’ privacy rights—but needs some new limitations.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he has decided to bring another 1,000 members of the Falash Mura community still living in Ethiopia to Israel.
The messianic Jewish community in Ashdod has suffered two acts of vandalism, which it says was perpetrated by two ultra-Orthodox men.
For 35 years, O.S. Arun has been a professional singer of Carnatic music, a classical genre popular in South India.
“By 2025 more than half of all current workplace tasks will be performed by machines as opposed to 29 percent today,” a statement by the Swiss non-profit organization said.
A recent report by Zion market research suggested that the global mobile-wallet market in general is expected to top $3bn by 2022, up from nearly $600m in 2016.
The European Union is looking at Amazon.com Inc.’s use of data it collects from other retailers on its platform, with the possibility that the information gives it an extra edge for its own sales.
China’s financial center Hong Kong overtook the New York metropolitan area as the world’s largest ultra-high-net-worth city in 2017.
The European Broadcasting Union announced that next year’s competition will be hosted in the coastal city, at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds complex.
The new Italian government will introduce a ban on Sunday shopping in large commercial centers before the end of the year as it seeks to defend family traditions, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said.
Since we tend to hear more about foodborne illness outbreaks, there’s a perception that the risk has gone up. But, is our food supply any more or less safe than it used to be?
For centuries, between late May and early October, dairy farmers have been bringing their cows up to graze in the high mountain pastures.
At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Germany, fierce South Korean rivals Samsung and LG showed off their latest TV offerings, sporting giant screen sizes and eye-popping colors.
Years of doomsday talk at Silicon Valley dinner parties has turned to action.
The Arab public, too, shares this pessimistic perception but less so, with 71% responding that the chances of such a breakthrough are slim.
Paraguay will move its embassy back to Tel Aviv, Foreign Minister Luis Alberto Castiglioni said less than four months after it followed the United States lead and moved its embassy to Jerusalem.
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has changed the way businesses worldwide view privacy and will continue to do so.
Economic cooperation between Japan and Israel is being stepped up.
Nearly half of U.S. Jews do not identify with organized religion, a new study by the Pew Research Center finds.
In an interview with Jordan Today TV translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, former Jordanian prime minister Abdelsalam Al-Majali claimed...
Iran’s defense minister unveiled the next generation of Tehran’s Fateh Mobin short-range ballistic missile, according to conservative news agency Tasnim.
More than a third of farmed fruit and vegetables never makes it on to shop shelves because it is misshapen or the wrong size, according to research.
A woman in Muslim-majority Indonesia was sentenced to 18 months in jail for complaining about the volume of a mosque’s call to prayer.
Defense giant Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. has been selected to provide several weapons systems to the Australian Defense Force.
Norway wants those aircraft makers to come up with a 25-to-30-seat airliner powered by electric motors...
Chinese smartphone maker Huawei says the Australian government has banned it from providing 5G technology for the country’s wireless networks.
Support for a two-state solution among Israelis and Palestinians has dropped to a record low following years of a moribund peace process and several rounds of violent military confrontation.
In a sign of Buenos Aires’ changing attitude toward Israel, the Argentine Foreign Ministry has issued a statement that seems to put the blame for recent clashes between the Israeli military and Hamas squarely on the Palestinians.
From Jeju’s bustling seaside, South Korea doesn’t look like it has a happiness problem.
A Swedish Muslim woman has won compensation after her job interview was ended when she refused a handshake.
OurCrowd Labs/02, a Jerusalem-based seed-stage incubator focused on deep-tech innovation, signed dual memorandums of understanding with South Korean venture capital firms.
Saudi Arabia froze new trade and investment with Canada and expelled the Canadian ambassador, in a stern gesture of retaliation after Ottawa urged it to free arrested civil society activists.
The system comprises a unique, dedicated vehicle, which features some of the world’s most advanced robotic capabilities...
The project, with international funding, will ease the acute shortage of water for the Gazan population of 1.8 million.
Two Israeli teams were crowned champions of the European Universities Debating Championship in Serbia...
At a downtown market in Shanghai, people are hustling to sell their goods.
In a rainbow of color and diversity, an estimated 35,000 people took to the capital’s streets for the 17th-annual Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance.
