The 24 states holding primaries in next week's Super Tuesday have lost 1,568,600 manufacturing jobs in the seven years since President Bush took office.
Knesset member Nissim Zeev said. "Gay people must be made aware of how their lifestyle is destroying our existence".
A heavy snowfall blanketed Jerusalem and the surrounding areas Tuesday night and was continuing to fall Wednesday morning.
LONDON - High levels of malnutrition and the difficulties of delivering aid make Somalia the world's most pressing humanitarian crisis, the U.N. refugee agency's representative there said on Tuesday.
BRUSSELS - Rising food prices and extreme weather are sparking more humanitarian disasters around the world, the United Nations' top official for emergency relief warned on Tuesday.
Chancellor Alistair Darling is to give new powers to the Bank of England to mount secret rescue operations for banks requiring emergency funds.
(WASHINGTON) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut a key interest rate for the second time in just over a week, reducing the federal funds rate by a half point. It signaled that further rate cuts were possible.
Erratic power supply has forced South Africa's biggest gold and platinum mining companies to suspend their operations. South Africa - Africa's economic giant - is one of the world's biggest producers of gold and platinum.
NAIVASHA, Kenya - Kenyan military helicopters swooped over machete-wielding crowds terrorizing hundreds of refugees in a lakeside town on Tuesday against a backdrop of spiraling violence in the east African country.
Councils, police and intelligence services are tapping and intercepting the phone calls, emails and letters of hundreds of thousands of people every year, an official report said.
Some of Britain's most challenging young prisoners are to be given food supplements in a study aimed at curbing violent behaviour.
Four days of appalling tribal violence have left at least 100 people dead and many more homeless in the tourist idyll of Lake Naivasha, as Kenya slides towards civil war.
Rogue trader dramatically walks free as French police drop most serious charges.
China's transport and energy systems have been caught in a perfect winter storm, with hundreds of thousands of people stranded during the peak travel season after train delays caused by heavy snow and power failures.
My general impression of the panel discussions I attended at Davos, was that NOBODY REALLY HAS ANY IDEA HOW BAD THE CURRENT FINANCIAL TROUBLES COULD GET AND HOW MUCH ECONOMIC IMPACT THEY MIGHT HAVE.