People who seek to align today’s headlines with ancient Scriptures have been working overtime lately, monitoring the daily developments in the Middle East.

A typical working parent spends just 19 minutes a day looking after their children, official figures revealed yesterday.

More than 30 years have passed since a major expedition has attempted to reveal the history of Tel Gezer, the ancient city of King Solomon fame located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

The death toll in the Indonesian tsunami has risen to at least 520, fuelling questions over why no warning was given ahead of the disaster.

Pope Benedict XVI is writing a book about Jesus while on holiday in the Italian Alps, the Rome daily La Repubblica reported Tuesday.

Merriam-Webster on Thursday stamped its approval on a raft of words that will appear in its next dictionary update, including the verb "google" and other tech terms such as "spyware" and "mouse potato."

THE secret slaughter of at least 10,000 racing greyhounds by one man has been exposed by an undercover investigation.

Major US allies condemned the ferocity of Israel's military attack on Lebanon, revealing a clear split with Washington's moderate call for restraint.

To the lay observer it seems like an infinite network of computers, servers and cables stretching around the globe.

Israel battered roads, flyovers and fuel tanks in Lebanon early on Friday, inflicting further devastation on its neighbor's economy in reprisal for the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hizbollah guerrillas.