There is a debate going on within the Ultra-Orthodox community over how much they should integrate into the Israeli mainstream.
We are looking for a city in India where the creators of a matrimony site have designed a game to raise awareness about the problem of dowry in India.
At a time when musicians and classical music lovers paid scant attention to the baroque repertoire, Leonhardt made it his mission to bring it to life.
Wikipedia plans to take its English-language site offline on Wednesday as part of protests against proposed anti-piracy laws in the US.
Copy infringement has become a big problem in Spain, especially over digital books. The country has started to adopt stricter laws against the piracy but as Gerry Hadden reports, Spanish writers aren’t encouraged.
Nearly half of students in India drop out of elementary school. In an effort to bring them back in, some groups are testing out mobile classrooms: school bus learning.
Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of trains Now they have an intimidating and possibly even deadly new tactic.
Italy’s Coast Guard released an audio recording of one of its commanders on shore speaking on the phone with Captain Schettino in the middle of the crisis.
The captain of a cruise ship that ran aground off Italy made an “unapproved, unauthorized” deviation in course, the liner’s owners say. Host Marco Werman talks with Lauren Moore of Bowling Green, Kentucky who survived the disaster.
The websites of Israel’s national airline, El Al, and the Tel Aviv stock exchange have been disrupted just hours after they were reportedly threatened by a Saudi computer hacker.
Now that Taiwan has re-elected its president, there are signs that China is ready to step up the pressure on Taiwan to come closer into its orbit.
A growing number of Hungarians are fed up of the poor economy and an increasingly authoritarian government and are talking about leaving the country for good.
Kiran Ahluwalia performed one of the big hits by legendary Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with Tinariwen at the Festival in the Desert.
The World’s Middle East correspondent, Matthew Bell, profiles Israeli cartoonist Shay Charka who lives in the West Bank. He hopes for peace with his Palestinian neighbors but doesn’t believe that a two-state solution is possible. Charka’s cartoons skewer all sectors of Israeli social and political society.
You may not know it, but Israeli TV is taking the US by storm. Showtime’s Homeland, up for three Golden Globe awards this weekend was originally an Israeli program.
