NORWAY - Pastor Terje Ligerod, head of the Norwegian delegation of roughly 40 Christian leaders visiting Israel this week, told Arutz Sheva that his group came to ask forgiveness for Norway's antagonism towards Jews, and to pledge support for the Jewish state.
UK - Now with each new scientific breakthrough or technological innovation we're getting further from "natural" selection and closer to commercial eugenics, and a frightening future of humanity in which Gattaca is science fiction no more.
USA - The too big to fail banks have a larger share of the US banking industry than they have ever had before. So if having banks that were too big to fail was a "problem" back in 2008, what is it today?
CHINA - Amidst tensions with the United States over the disputed Senkaku Islands, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army is bragging that its aircraft carrier combat task force, led by the inaugural Liaoning warship, is now close to rivaling the US Navy.
UK - Thousands of people are being evacuated from their homes as a severe storm batters large parts of the UK.
USA - An ice storm will affect millions of people into Friday and threaten to cut power for hundreds of thousands from northern Texas to western Kentucky.
SOUTH AFRICA - South Africans have gathered in Johannesburg and Soweto to mourn their former leader, Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday aged 95.
UK - Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays are among a raft of global banking giants fined a record €1.7 billion (£1.4 billion) for forming illegal cartels to rig benchmark interest rates.
UK - British police have launched an investigation into whether the Guardian committed “potential” terrorism offenses by publishing the incriminating NSA and GCHQ documents leaked earlier this year by Edward Snowden.
UK - Hunger in Britain has reached the level of a “public health emergency” and the Government may be covering up the extent to which austerity and welfare cuts are adding to the problem, leading experts have said.
KIEV, UKRAINE - After helmeted riot police stormed Independence Square early Saturday, spraying tear gas, throwing stun grenades and swinging truncheons, dozens of young protesters ran, terrified, scattering up the streets.
GERMANY - Security researchers have developed malware that can capture keystrokes from a computer and hijack the soundcard to broadcast the data to a nearby machine as a high-frequency sound which cannot be heard by humans.
GERMANY - Bees have a much greater economic value than is widely known, according to a scientific probe into strawberry-growing published on Wednesday.
USA - Chimps could be classified as human beings, if a radical lawsuit succeeds. An animal rights group has asked a New York court to make captive chimps “legal persons” to enable them to be released to an animal sanctuary.
USA - An 11-year-old girl from Portland, Oregon has been told that she can't sell mistletoe to help defray the cost of braces, but she can beg for the money on the city's streets.