… presence in the Ethiopian Highlands predates the destruction of the Temple; Ethiopian Orthodox Christians claim that the Ark of the Covenant is located in Axum; and the first Muslim hijra, or flight from Mecca to escape religious persecution, was …

Cardinal Bagnasco has given an interview to an Italian television station in which he has had some interesting things to say about the plight of the Christians in the Middle East. One can read a report of the Cardinal's words, in Italian, here. The …

Filled with religious overtones — including a mysterious figure known only as the Man — CW's new drama “The Messengers” hints at the Rapture and Apocalypse, but based strictly on the busy, confusing pilot, it had better start getting somewhere soon …

They awake to world where they are either on a mission to prevent or cause the Rapture. Shantel VanSanten, Anna Diop, Jon Fletcher, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Diogo Morgado, JD Pardo, Craig Frank and Joel Courtney star in this series about humanity facing its …

The acquisition of the company will likely bolster Apple's miniature camera technologies in its iPhones, iPads and other devices. Apple is paying about $20 million to acquire LinX Computational Imaging, an Israel-based company that focuses on designing …

"We stand here tonight, in painful silence at Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day," Rivlin began. "Exactly seventy years since April 15th 1945, a Sunday afternoon. The day when the first British …

Israel Sandoval Jr., 36, was charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure and booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail. On March 26, Sandoval was captured on surveillance cameras, allegedly exposing himself to at least three people over the course …

Maybe insurance companies should be allowed to go back to withholding coverage based on pre-existing conditions. Conversely, maybe, just maybe, we can go even further back to the future and fulfill Mencken's prophecy again and elect another fool?

Such “stays” on contracts are part of efforts to stop banks from being “too-big-to-fail”, meaning regulators would have enough time to wind them up rather than come under pressure to use taxpayer money to bail them out. The Financial Stability Board (FSB) called for the industry in November last year to develop proposals for briefly […]

The tax burden in the United States is reasonable compared with other countries.