German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday warned the country’s citizens not to participate in weekly anti-Islam rallies that have attracted growing numbers of supporters in the eastern German city of

The city is going to permit paid parking on a number of streets in the Emek Refaim area of the capital to ease conditions for visiting motorists. Some are streets

Two Chicago universities competing to host President Barack Obama’s presidential library are scrambling to address major concerns raised by the foundation picking the future site, with Chicago’s mayor stepping in

A team of researchers think they have pinpointed how the Ebola epidemic in West Africa started — with a small boy playing in a hollowed-out tree where infected bats lived.

As 2014 comes to an end, the State Comptroller’s Office released its report addressing matters pertaining to local government. Among the categories contained in the latest report is the level

Russia has angrily criticized the latest U.S. sanctions, saying they could derail cooperation with Washington on dealing with the Iranian nuclear standoff and the Syrian crisis. Russia-U.S. ties have plunged

After 26 years without a chief rabbi, Rabbi Kalman Bar Shlita assumed the position of mora d’asra of Netanya on Monday, 7 Teves 5775. Taking part in the ceremony were

With search teams pulling debris and bodies from AirAsia Flight 8501 out of the Java Sea, attention now shifts to the investigation to determine what happened as the jet was

Inspectors of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Chief Rabbinate Kashrus Enforcement Unit last week foiled six attempts to smuggle a total of 90 tons of produce from PA (Palestinian

Fifteen children have died from complications of the flu so far this season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted, as it officially declared the illness an epidemic. The

The first 50-state report on the latest sign-up season under President Barack Obama’s health care law shows more than 4 million people signed up for the first time or re-enrolled.

[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] About 1,100 civil service rabbonim, roshei yeshivos and heads of kehillos from around Israel took part in a kenos in the Jerusalem Convention Center on Monday

The battleground over traffic enforcement cameras may be shifting. Nearly half of all states use cameras to track red-light or speeding violations, and some use both. But while the number

The resolution Tuesday failed to get the minimum nine “yes” votes in the Security Council. It received eight “yes” votes, two “no” votes — including one from the United States

Registered Likud members may vote for the party’s lineup on Wednesday, 9 Teves in the party’s primaries. Polls will operate from 09:00-22:00 and 96,651 registered party members may vote at

Two Boston police officers were hospitalized after they were attacked by six teenagers related to a person they were arresting, authorities said. The officers, a woman and a man, went