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.
Invisibility cloaks did not end with Harry Potter's final film. Cloaking has become a new trend among students and scientists, with a magnetic invisibility cloak becoming the latest installment.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN General Assembly on September 22 to make a plea for Palestinian statehood.
Israel has never confirmed nor denied the existence of a nuclear weapons program
Critics of President Barack Obama assert that the president has not shown enough support for Israel, but the U.S.'s sale of 55, powerful, bunker buster bombs, among other military aid to Israel, refutes that thesis.
The Republican presidential candidates are debating once again Thursday night, this time in Orlando, Fla. The participants are Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Stay on this page for live updates.
Leo Apotheker won’t remain CEO of Hewlett-Packard into a second year. Directors of the world’s biggest computer maker ousted him in favor of the former head of eBay, Meg Whitman, who lacks computer experience.
September has proved to be a tough month for technology boards of directors who seem to be foundering, and not leading their companies. The result may be that customers wonder who's designing the products.
The determined efforts of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to push for United Nations membership met with the stiffest resistance Wednesday when U.S. President Barack Obama made it clear he will veto any resolution recommending UN membership to Palestine.