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Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu responded swiftly to the killing of eight citizens, including that of 22-year-old Staff Sergeant Moshe Naftali, in a series of coordinated attacks on Israeli vehicles in southern resort city of Eilat.

Economist Nouriel Dr. Doom Roubini, the NYU professor who 4 years ago accurately predicted the global financial crisis, said U.S./Europe policy makers must invest in a new, smarter social safety net to restore a balance between the free market and public goods. If it doesn’t occur, a systemic flaw will, at minimum, continue to hinder economic recovery.

Almost half of the workers in Verizon's wireline business went on strike on August 7 after talks for a new labor pact failed when their contract expired.

Egypt has said it is withdrawing its envoy to Israel, holding Tel Aviv responsible for the deaths of five Egyptian border troops on Thursday. The latest development marks the lowest ebb in the relations between the two countries that had maintained cold peace over the last several decades.

According to reports, five Egyptians were killed in the fire-fight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants. The event occurred Thursday, near the southern Israel city of Eilat.

Israeli aircraft struck Hamas outposts in Gaza and Palestinians fired rockets into southern Israel Friday as violence escalated following deadly gun attacks along Israel's porous border with Egypt.

An Egyptian army officer and two security personnel were killed during an Israeli raid on militants along the border Thursday, an Egyptian army official said.

A half-meter marble statue of Hercules, a hero of Greek and Roman mythology, from the second century AD, has been unearthed in the Jezreel Valley in Northern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced in a statement.

Images from Israel Thursday, after gunmen, suspected to be from the Gaza Strip, entered the country from Egypt and attack civilians.

After seven people died when gunmen attacked a bus in Israel, the country has bombed the Gaza Strip, killing six.

At least six people died and 25 others were injured Thursday in a three-stage terrorist attack along Israel's border with Egypt. The attack was initiated when terrorists opened fire at an Egged bus on Road 12 near Eilat, Israel's southernmost city.

Christine O'Donnell walks off Piers Morgan set, David Letterman gets threatened, Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey to star in a stripper movie, and more in today's Daily Scoop.

A contributor for the popular jihadist forum for radical Muslims, Shumuka al-Islam, has threatened David Letterman for joking about Osama Bin Laden's death.

Russia pitched on Wednesday a proposal to Iran's foreign minister which it hopes could bring a breakthrough in a confrontation over Tehran's nuclear programme, despite doubts in the West that the plan can make much headway.

Israel will stick to its refusal to apologise to Turkey for killing nine of its citizens on a Gaza-bound ship, an Israeli official said on Wednesday, entrenching a position that Ankara said would kill any prospects for reconciliation.

Syrian troops raided houses in a Sunni district of the besieged port of Latakia on Wednesday, residents said, arresting hundreds of people and taking them to a stadium after a four-day tank assault to crush protests against President Bashar al-Assad.

Examining patients and taking a medical history are more useful to hospital doctors in diagnosing patients than high-tech scans, according to a study from Israel.

Republican Rick Perry, the conservative governor of Texas, on Saturday declared himself a candidate for president with a blistering attack on Democratic President Barack Obama.

There is one thing that the doomsayers have gotten wrong: They aren?t nearly worried enough.

Israel's interior minister has given final approval for a plan to build 1,600 settler homes in East Jerusalem, a project whose announcement last year during a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden caused a diplomatic rift with Washington.

Texas prison officials on Wednesday executed convicted killer Martin Robles for the shooting deaths of two young men nearly nine years ago who belonged to a rival street gang in Corpus Christi.