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.
Reusable antimicrobial SonoMasks from Israeli startup Sonovia Tech now are proven to be more than 90 percent effective against coronaviruses...
The entire leadership of Britain’s biggest Muslim charity has resigned after it emerged that it had replaced a trustee who had stepped down over antisemitic posts...
Youths volunteering at an archaeological dig in central Israel have found 425 gold coins that had lain buried in a clay jar for 1,100 years.
Innovation has been a driving force behind Switzerland’s financial success in recent years, and will be essential for its post COVID-19 economic recovery.
Scientists have created an army of microscopic four-legged robots too small to see with the naked eye that walk when stimulated by a laser...
Scotland is developing its own coronavirus contact-tracing app, which it hopes to have ready for use in the autumn.
According to Mishustin, Russia’s healthcare system during the coronavirus pandemic proved that it was ready for challenges.
With some European countries reimposing restrictions to avoid another Covid-19 flareup, the ultra-rich are abandoning some of their traditional mooring spots.
Denmark will levy the equivalent of $480 million in new taxes on banks and wealthy investors to fund early retirement for some workers.
An Israeli start-up has developed a technology that allows farmers to grow crops in spite of the salinity of the water or soil that they have at their disposal...
The advanced system is designed to intercept long-range missiles.
The Lithuanian government has designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, it announced.
Nine years after Steve Jobs stepped down and thrust Tim Cook to the top of Apple Inc., the company is more valuable than ever—and so is Cook.
On the surface there’s no reason why Kuwait, the kingdom at the end of the Persian Gulf, would be a leading critic of Israel.
Israel plans to draft as many as 3,000 reservists to help rein in the coronavirus outbreak, the Defense Ministry said.
Russia’s Health Ministry plans a mass vaccination campaign against the coronavirus for October, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko told reporters.
Singapore will make some incoming travelers wear an electronic monitoring device...
HOT cable TV provider has declined to request a new license for the Shelanu TV Evangelical channel...
Ask any expectant couple what they hope their baby will be, and one answer is likely to be “healthy.”
For the first time in history, Swedish female priests outnumber their male counterparts, sixty years after they were first allowed to don the clerical collar, the Church of Sweden said.
Uncovered only three kilometers (1.8 mile) outside the Old City, the compound is believed to have served as an administrative center...
In the 1970s, prominent archaeologist Nahman Avigad, who was conducting excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem, came across a small complex in the Jewish Quarter.
“I will never go back to Germany, not even for a holiday,” Mariana Costea, a seasonal worker from Romania, told DW.
Dutch civil servants took a picture with one of the terrorists charged with killing 17-year-old Rina Schnerb...
It’s been almost two decades since the government decided to move the IDF intelligence headquarters from Tel Aviv to the South.
There are at least 28 missile launching sites belonging to Hezbollah in civilian areas in the Lebanese capital of Beirut...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to “liberate al-Aqsa mosque” from Israel after “resurrecting Hagia Sophia” as a mosque.
