Avaneesh Pandey

The Israeli government on Sunday approved a bill that would allow authorities to force-feed prisoners on hunger strike.

In a new report, released days ahead of a United Nations assessment of last year’s 50-day war in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government defended its military assault on the Palestinian enclave.

Two of the tiny spacecraft, each about the size of a briefcase, would piggyback on an Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s InSight lander to Mars next March.

The move by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would restrict the import and export of these primates and their use in biomedical research.

The graph, which shows the inexorable rise in the levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, is one of the most recognizable indicators of humans’ impact on Earth’s climate.

At least 100 people were hospitalized in the northern Indian state of Punjab after a tanker carrying ammonia gas got stuck under a bridge and sprung a leak.

The stratosphere around the planet WASP-33b is believed to contain titanium oxide, which causes a "temperature inversion" similar to one seen in Earth's atmosphere.

Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services are being investigated by the U.S. Labor Department for alleged violations of H-1B visa rules.

Shia-majority Iran is now providing arms and funds to the Taliban, a hard-line Sunni group, according to a report.

The Israeli military cleared itself of all charges related to the deaths of four Palestinian children during last year's bombing of a beach in the Gaza Strip.

For the first time ever, scientists have recorded and measured voluntary -- and habitual -- alcohol consumption in any wild ape.

The offensive, whose details are still sketchy, was conducted just days after militants attacked an Indian army convoy in the state of Manipur, killing 20 soldiers.

Amnesty International has called for an overhaul of Ireland's "draconian" law, which criminalizes abortion in all but the most extreme circumstances.

The new initiative comes amid a major boost to the Obama administration-led efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions by U.S. power plants.

Using a "natural telescope" created by the gravitational warping of the fabric of space-time, scientists have been able to observe the finer details of a galaxy located nearly 11.7 billion light-years from Earth.

Zainab Bangura, a United Nations envoy who visited Iraq and Syria in April, recounts her interactions with teenage girls who managed to escape the captivity of the Islamic State group.

However, the G7 countries, which account for nearly a third of global carbon emissions, failed to set binding cuts on emissions of greenhouse gases.

The move will reduce staff strength at Europe's biggest bank by at least 22,000, and is part of a broader cost-cutting process.

The rebels were suspected to be part of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist).

The Finnish company, which launched the immensely popular mobile game in 2009, has seen its revenues fall in recent years.

New images captured using the Hubble Space Telescope show three stars -- flung out of their parent galaxies -- detonating in a massive supernova over 300 light-years from their nearest neighbors.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi apologized for incidents of police brutality, two years after he took power in a military coup.

In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, the GOP presidential candidate defended his earlier comments where he told the Pope to leave science to the scientists.

While researchers have called for an intensive study of undersea faults off the U.S. West Coast, the potential tsunami threat is not as severe as the one shown in the movie "San Andreas."

The airline's CEO, who had previously warned of the need for a "bitter" pill to overhaul the carrier, plans to lay off thousands and substantially reconfigure its fleet.

The five militants have been living in Qatar since their release last June in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl -- an American soldier taken prisoner by the Taliban in 2009.

Modi's planned visit to Israel would make him the first Indian prime minister to visit the Middle Eastern nation.

The civilian death toll in the attacks -- carried out by regime forces in the city of Aleppo and the town of Al-Bab -- is likely to rise, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.

Most of the 2,000-plus people who have perished are believed to be either daily wage laborers or older people suffering dehydration or sunstroke.