The MPs on the Science and Technology select committee called for the Government to draw up new guidelines for websites and apps explaining clearly how they use personal data, warning that laws will be needed if companies fail to comply. The committee highlighted terms for Facebook Messenger's mobile app, used by more than 200,000 million people a month, that means it can gain direct access to a mobile or tablet, including to take pictures or make videos, at any time without explicit confirmation from the owner.

After several tense hours, the terrorists killed the Israeli athletes. Nonetheless, the Games continued for several hours afterward.

Over the past several years, it has been revealed on multiple occasions that Abbas was closely linked to Munich mastermind Abu Daoud. Abbas praised Abu Daoud in 2010, saying "he was one of the leading figures of Fatah and spent his life in resistance and sincere work as well as physical sacrifice for his people's just causes."

Later, attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center, has exposed that Abbas in fact provided the financing for the Munich attack. But the State of Israel must formally recognize Abbas's role in financing the attack, Chairman of the Students for Israel movement Eliyahu Nissim stated Tuesday.

Israelis, who have been lulled into a false sense of security from years of calm, now return to extreme vigilance and caution in their daily lives. As Israel wipes the blood off the ground she is left to ponder how the tension in Jerusalem has suddenly reached a fever pitch. It has nothing to do with Palestinian's quality of life, employment, access to education or freedom of movement, it has everything to do with the access to the Temple Mount.

Although Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas claims that Israel has been attempting to change the status quo on the Temple Mount, it has been in fact Abbas who has been attempting to change the status quo by inciting the Palestinian people and publicly stating that Jews should not have access to the Jewish holy site.

Abbas, who is seen as a moderate in the eyes of many in the West is not asking for freedom of religious practices and access to all religious sites but is instead demanding total monopoly over the Temple Mount and the prohibition of access to all Jews contrary to the status quo. Abbas is a man who is inciting millions of Muslims to violence by advocating that the mere presence of Jews on the Temple Mount is a desecration of their mosque. It is in fact Abbas who is attempting to change the status quo and to eliminate any presence other than Muslims on the Temple Mount.

He is playing with the religious emotions of Muslim extremists, who have consistently shown in the past that they over react and are prone to extreme violence when they believe there to be a “threat” to the Islamic way. Abbas`s plan, to invoke the idea of a religious war and attempting to ban Jewish worshippers from the Temple Mount is changing the status quo and in such will drive more and more Palestinians towards Islamic fundamental ideology and into the hands of Hamas.

1. Is there any hope of ever concluding a solid, useful deal -- or is Iran just running the clock?

2. Will the lack of a deal cause the US, Israel, or any country to take pre-emptive military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities?

I think the evidence is clear: Iran’s current leaders have absolutely no intention of curtailing much less dismantling their illegal nuclear program. They are gaming the world community as they make significant advances towards The Bomb.

Compounding Israel's fears, the proposal Jerusalem has seen shows that mass dismantlement of Iran's nuclear infrastructure – including the destruction, and not the mere warehousing, of its parts – is no longer on the table in Vienna. "Iran's not being asked to dismantle the nuclear infrastructure," the Israeli official said, having seen the proposal before the weekend. "Right now what they're talking about is something very different. They're talking about Ayatollah Khamenei allowing the P5+1 to save face."

But in the deal under discussion in Vienna, Iran would be able to comply with international standards for a decade and, from Israel's perspective, then walk, not sneak, into the nuclear club. "You've not only created a deal that leaves Iran as a threshold nuclear power today, because they have the capability to break out quickly if they wanted to," the Israeli official contended. "But you've also legitimized Iran as a military nuclear power in the future."

By framing the deal as fundamentally flawed, regardless of its enforcement, Israel is telling the world that it will not wait to see whether inspectors do their jobs as ordered. "Ten, fifteen years in the life of a politician is a long time," the Israeli said, in a vague swipe against the political directors now scrambling in Vienna. "In the life of a nation, it's nothing."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened the use of force against Iran several times since 2009, even seeking authorization from his cabinet in 2011. Iran's program has since grown in size and scope.

[This article was written just before the talks failed last week, and were subsequently extended until July next year. The article is included here because it shows the position Israel now finds herself in.]

"There are really only three logical explanations.

The first is that the British royals only like to visit royals, and try to stay away from republics. But Prince Charles has visited Egypt time after time, so there goes that theory.

The second possible explanation is fear – fear that any kind of royal visit to Israel would harm the UK, for example if Arab lands retaliated by cutting trade with Britain. This is silly. Prince Charles visited Jordan last year and could easily have helicoptered over for a day in Israel. Princes Andrew or Harry could have stopped by while in the Middle East as well. Given the current tacit alliance of Israel and the Gulf monarchies against Iran and ISIS, the likelihood that such visits would have harmed the UK is impossibly small.

The third possible explanation for the continuing refusal of the British royals to set foot in Israel is that either they or the Foreign Office harbor deep and undying enmity toward the Jewish state."

“There isn’t a single place in the Quran where the name Jerusalem appears,” he said. “There isn’t. Not once. You know what? Not even in a hint.” Immediately afterwards, in response to a question from a student claiming that an Arab told him there is a reference to the prophet Muhammad’s dream of Jerusalem, he said the student doesn’t understand, but “Arabs don’t understand either. Arabs imagine it. It’s amazing. You know what? Ninety percent of the Arabs don’t know what’s in the Quran. I guarantee it. We know better than them.”

“You’re saying that there is some dream. Correct. There is some commentator who explained something in the Quran through this dream. But it’s not the commentary of Rashi. It’s some legend that was appended.” The current struggle, he implies, is merely the latest example (following in the line, he says, of Antiochus, Vespasian and Hadrian, all conquerors of Jerusalem) of rebels against God trying to “bring defilement” (le-havi tum’ah — Peretz’s words) to the Temple Mount in order to thwart the Jewish mission of sanctifying the world.

It did not play down the woes and inadequacies of the current state of European affairs. On the contrary, the speech included descriptions of the “distrust of citizens towards institutions considered to be aloof, engaging in laying down rules perceived as insensitive to individual people”. But those – step forward, Nigel Farage – who thrive on channelling populist sentiment against the very essence of the European project would be fools or, more likely, cynics to claim that Pope Francis has vindicated them in any way.

Indeed, far from seeking to fuel further disenchantment with the EU, this was a strong-minded plea for a better Europe, one in tune with its founding values of “human dignity” and fundamental rights. It was no Faragiste demand to dismantle or diminish the enterprise. It was instead a call for the “confidence needed to pursue the great ideal of a united and peaceful Europe”.

No less important, it was a speech urging all Europeans to look at themselves not through the prism of narrow domestic or intra-EU disputes, but as a continent of many blessings, despite the current anxiety, not least in the eurozone. Yes, it must redefine its role and ambitions in a globalised, interconnected and more complex world. But Europe is far from over: it accounts for only 7% of the world’s population, but 25% of its GDP and 50% of its public spending.

By castigating a Europe that produces a “general impression of weariness and ageing”, a Europe which is now a “grandmother ... no longer fertile and vibrant”, the pope intended to issue a wake-up call. He aimed his criticism at the plight of the unemployed in the age of austerity and on how contemporary society pushes individuals towards an “uncontrolled consumerism”. The pope wants Europe to “rediscover the best of itself”. Some may see that as a call for miracles.

“Europe is losing relevance internally and externally,” said the report, written by Jean Pisani-Ferry, a French economist, and Henrik Enderlein, a German economist. The countries could not resign themselves, it said, “to this state of affairs.” France is grappling with low growth, high unemployment and waning competitiveness. Germany, which has performed strongly for the last decade, risks slowing if it does not step up investments in infrastructure, the report said.

The report called for a split policy mix that would rely on investment in Germany to stimulate demand, while other countries including France would pursue changes meant to bring long-term improvements to their economies, the way Germany did a decade ago when it overhauled its labor laws. Other recommendations included altering France’s framework of labor laws and creating a leaner, more effective state. Germany was urged to respond to demographic challenges by preparing for a greater influx of immigrants and women in the work force.

Most of all, the report called on Germany to step up spending, including encouraging Germans to direct nearly €2 trillion now held in normal savings accounts toward investments in domestic and foreign equities. “France is in a situation of economic weakness,” said Mr Macron, “and Germany has a problem with growth that is not all-inclusive.” Fixing the situation is urgent, he added, because “our destinies are linked."

"In the eyes of the Catholic Church, the Vatican, Jerusalem should be the capital of the three religions, the city of peace and faith. But this is a religious perspective. Achieving peace requires political negotiations. It's impossible to know in advance where the talks will lead to. The sides may agree that Jerusalem will be the capital of this or the other country, but these are issues that need to be placed on the negotiating table. It's not my place to be telling the parties how to act, but I think the negotiations need to be approached in good faith and with mutual trust. I pray to God that the two leaders will do everything to keep moving forward. That is the only way to achieve peace."

The Dutch central bank – De Nederlandsche Bank – was one of the latest to make the move. The bank announced last Friday that it moved a fifth of its total 612.5-metric-ton gold reserve from New York to Amsterdam earlier in November. It was done in an effort to redistribute the gold stock in “a more balanced way,” and to boost public confidence, the bank explained. “With this adjustment the Dutch Central Bank joins other banks that are keeping a larger share of their gold supply in their own country,” the bank said in a statement. “In addition to a more balanced division of the gold reserves...this may also contribute to a positive confidence effect with the public.”

Meanwhile, Switzerland has organized the ‘Save Our Swiss Gold’ referendum, which is taking place on November 30. If passed, it would force the Swiss National Bank to convert a fifth of its assets into gold and repatriate all of its reserves from vaults in the UK and Canada. “The Swiss initiative is merely part of an increasing global scramble towards gold and away from the endless printing of money. Huge movements of gold are going on right now,” Koos Jansen, an Amsterdam-based gold analyst for the Singaporean precious metal dealer BullionStar, told the Guardian.

Germany tried and failed to adopt a similar path in early 2013 by announcing a plan to repatriate some of its gold reserves back from the US and France. The efforts fizzled out this summer, when it was announced that Germany decided to leave $635 billion worth of gold in US vaults.

"Naimi spoke about market share rivalry with the United States. And those who wanted a cut understood that there was no option to achieve it because the Saudis want a market share battle," said a source who was briefed by a non-Gulf OPEC minister after Thursday's meeting.

Oil hit a fresh four-year low below $72 per barrel on Friday. A boom in shale oil production and weaker growth in China and Europe have sent prices down by over a third since June. "You think we were convinced? What else could we do?" said an OPEC delegate from a country that had argued for a cut. Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri effectively confirmed OPEC was entering a battle for market share.

"Oil stocks are currently in the final phase of capitulation," said UniCredit strategist Christian Stocker. Oil prices have been sliding for months, but the pain has mostly been felt by oil-services suppliers rather than majors like Royal Dutch Shell or Total. Investors maintained some faith in them based on their record of paying reliable dividends. That faith appeared to erode on Friday, when $33 billion in market capitalisation was wiped off the sector in Europe.