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An Israeli scientist won the 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday for his discovery of crystals that packed in a pattern that never was repeated, research that colleagues ridiculed for years.

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in the discovery of quasicrystals.

Israel has dismissed its deputy ambassador in Washington over a leak to the media about secret discussions involving the United States, diplomatic sources said Wednesday.

The country-music star and singer of the Monday Night Football theme song lashes out during an appearance on Fox and Friends.

Panetta also advised Israel it must repair deteriorating relations with Turkey and Egypt.

Stock index futures pointed to a weaker open on Wall Street on Monday after steep declines in the previous session, with futures for the S&P 500, for the Dow Jones and for the Nasdaq 100 down 0.6-0.9 percent.

Last year, when there were rumors of Hollywood star couple Ashton Kutcher, 33, and Demi Moore, 48, breaking up, the couple was seen making a religious trip to Israel. This time around, amid yet more rumors of a break-up, the couple was spotted attending a spiritual session at the Kabbalah Center in Los Angeles, on Friday, together, according to a report on Allvoices.com

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who led a 400-person congregation in Rasht just a few years ago, was arrested on apostasy charges in 2009. He was found guilty of the crime of abandoning Islam and sentenced to death a year later.

Rosh Hashanah, the celebration of the Jewish New Year, has begun which will include 10 days of repentance leading up to the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement.

Iran's navy will send ships into the Atlantic Ocean, state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Tuesday. The vessels will sail out of the Persian Gulf and toward the United States' East Coast as retaliation for American ships in the Persian Gulf.

Israel National Museum partners with Google to give the web a look at historical treasure.

Saudi Arabia has called for the inclusion of Palestine in the United Nations, signaling that the United States is losing key support of many traditional allies in the Middle East.

NASA will soon develop a new optical, laser-based communication system that will allow transmitting high-resolution images and videos from Mars and even from distances beyond Moon, in just one minute, which currently takes around 90 minutes.

A partnership between Google and Israel Museum in Jerusalem has ensured that the Dead Sea Scrolls are available online around 2000 years after they were written.

Tensions between the Israelis and the Palestinians grew Tuesday as Israel announced plans for over 1,000 new housing units outside of boundaries established during the 1967 war.

Ed Koch backs Obama after heavily criticizing president's Israel policy.

Women in the military are currently eligible to perform 93 percent of the jobs, including artillery duties

The text of the Dead Sea Scrolls is available online now (with translation) thanks to Google.

The manuscripts include both religious and secular texts documenting life in the first and second centuries after Christ.

Ten Muslim college students in California were convicted and sentenced to probation on Friday for disrupting a speech at their university by Israel's ambassador to the United States.

It seems invisibility cloaks are not mere fabrications of the world of wizardry. Scientists and students have introduced a new phenomenon of cloaking, with a magnetic invisibility cloak as its latest addition.