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3 scientists share Nobel Chemistry Prize for DNA work
By Tom Rivers Two Americans and one Israeli share this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work showing how the DNA code is translated into life itself. Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath from Israel were all...
Barack Obama: Utmost Precautions Needed to Combat Swine Flu
By Michael Bowman U.S. President Barack Obama says schools should consider closing if cases of swine flu are even suspected among students or faculty. Mr. Obama spoke just hours after the United States recorded the first known death outside Mexico...
Man loses bet, runs naked to the sea
Israeli police say a man in his 20s was arrested in Ashdod for running and swimming naked after he lost a bet. The bet on a friendly game of cards called for the loser to run naked to the sea, swim and run home, the man told the police. I ask you to...
Two Moldovan young men died on building site in Israel
Two Moldovan young men lost their lives falling down on a building site near Rison le-Tion town, in Israel. According to some statements of the Moldovan Embassy in Israel, the two died on December 7 on the building site, Visa, Passports and Public...
Two militants killed in West Bank raid
The Israeli military reported killing two Islamic Jihad suspects Tuesday in a raid on a house in the West Bank city of Jenin. The military said undercover agents surrounded the house and a gunfight began when the two men tried to escape, Haaretz reported...
Israeli soldiers kill senior Jihad member
Israeli forces killed a senior Islamic Jihad operative near the West Bank town of Jenin, it was reported Monday. Muhammad Naza'al, 23, a Palestinian, was linked to attacks against Israeli civilians, reported the Jerusalem Post. Israeli soldiers...
Vatican and Israel in row over controversial Pope
A diplomatic row's brewing between the Vatican and Israel over the memory of a former Pope, Pius XII. The papal ambassador to Israel has said he will not attend a Holocaust memorial next week unless a museum in Jerusalem removes a photo caption claiming...
