Kofi Annan\’s resignation is a “stark demonstration” of the international community’s failure to influence events in Syria, according to Israel’s foreign minister.
The atmosphere at Caltech\’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will be a mixture of fear and anxiety on Sunday, Aug. 5, as its engineers and scientists hope to make history with the successful landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars.
A German Olympic rower has left the Olympic Village following claims that her boyfriend is a member of an extremist political party inspired by the Nazis.
A physicist said he would probably donate part of the $3 million he won in a surprise award to J Street, the liberal pro-Israel group.
The Palestinian Authority is considering a bid in September to be a U.N. “non-member observer state.”
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