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.
The UK saw record levels of antisemitic incidents over the course of 2018, the Community Security Trust has reported in its annual review...
The United States has purchased Iron Dome systems from Israel for an immediate need of the United States Army, the Defense Ministry announced.
France’s data protection watchdog fined Alphabet’s Google 50 million euros ($57 million) for breaching European Union online privacy rules...
The European Court of Justice ruled that Austrian law discriminated on grounds of religion and belief for not giving plaintiff Markus Achatzi holiday pay for working on Good Friday...
The small, overcrowded, low-lying Netherlands might not sound like the answer to feeding a world whose population is predicted to rise to 9.6 billion people by 2050...
Most payments in the world’s third largest economy involve paper bills and metal coins.
Chinese consumers should outspend their American counterparts in 2019, with retail sales in the Asian giant continuing to grow in the coming years...
The UK agreed in principle to a post-Brexit free trade agreement with Israel, the two sides revealed at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Israel’s military has slipped below its arch-nemesis Iran in the ranking of military powers, ranking 16 out of 137 countries...
Refundit, an Israeli startup which revolutionizes the field of tax-free shopping for tourists, has won the first place prize in the World Tourism Organization travel-tech competition.
Something hopeful is happening in the Middle East.
The Palestinian Authority spent at least NIS 502 million in payments to terrorist prisoners in 2018, according to a report...
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the French Academy of Sciences have quite a long history of cooperation and collaboration.
Moving abroad boosts the average worker’s income by $21,000, with the best-paid staff found in Switzerland, the U.S. and Hong Kong.
The European Union has moved to suppress everyday phrases such as ‘manpower’ and ‘mankind’ and replace them with gender-neutral terms.
