GAZA - Hamas called on the European Union on Friday to step up pressure on Israel to lift its economic and military blockade of the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the Islamist group.
Leading health experts have backed Delia Smith's rejection of organic food. They suggest that organic producers are taking advantage of consumers by charging higher prices for foods that offer little or no extra benefit.
SUMMER evenings spent enjoying a plate of tagliatelle and a glass of wine are about to become a lot more expensive following warnings that supplies of pasta to the UK could run short over the next few months.
"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist." - Winston Churchill, Nov. 21, 1943
The fifth annual Jerusalem Conference kicked off with a discussion on the future of Jerusalem. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni presented the government's position and was harshly criticized.
An Israeli MP has blamed a spate of recent earthquakes in the Middle East on gays. Six earthquakes have struck Israel and neighbouring Lebanon and Jordan in recent months, with two coming last week alone.
A home owner is being threatened with legal action after a woman claimed she trapped her hand in his letterbox while delivering unwanted junk mail.
Many leading figures in the fields of science, politics and the arts have achieved success because they had autism, a leading psychiatrist has claimed.
Nato's unity in Afghanistan was unravelling last night as Canada announced the date it is to withdraw its troops.
WASHINGTON - A meteorologist performing a comprehensive study of temperature-monitoring stations that provide data about global warming says the official facility at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport is riddled with problems that render it useless to scientists. But the data collected there is being used nonetheless.
LOS ANGELES - More than a third of the 143 million pounds of California beef recalled last week went to school lunch programs, with at least 20 million pounds consumed, officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday.
Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has ordered the renewal of the ceasefire his powerful militia has been observing for the past six months, reports say.
The Environment minister, Phil Woolas, says that it is "morally unacceptable to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on bottled water when we have pure drinking water, and at the same time one of the crises that is facing the world is the supply of water."
NEW YORK - Precious metals prices soared Thursday, with gold, silver and platinum hitting record highs after a drop in the dollar led traders to shift funds into hard assets as safe-haven investments.