2014-12-29 Israel More Top Stories

ABC News   

AirAsia tycoon Tony Fernandes faces first major crisis after turning troubled ...   
South China Morning Post (subscription)
Malaysian mogul Tony Fernandes transformed a floundering carrier into Asia's biggest budget airline. Now, he faces his company's first major crisis after a Singapore-bound plane carrying 162 people disappeared from radar about halfway through the flight ...

2014-12-29 Israel Health

Al-Arabiya   

Protein that can control weight loss, uncovered   
The Nation
MOL London - Researchers have uncovered a protein they say controls how the body produces fat cells. Called Thy1 it has a fundamental role in controlling whether a primitive cell decides to become a fat cell. Experts say it could be harnessed in obesity ...

2014-12-29 Israel Entertainment

Telegraph.co.uk   

N Korea: Internet outages continue amid hacking row   
AsiaOne
Photo shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Pyongyang denied any role in the cyberattacks, calling such suggestions part of a "smear campaign" by unpopular South Korean leaders. Print. With its Internet networks continuing to suffer outages for the sixth ...

2014-12-29 Israel Sci/Tech

The Hindu   

Sony PlayStation back online after three-day outage   
The Hindu
Sony has said that its PlayStation Network is back online after three days of disruptions that began on Christmas. However, heavy traffic might continue to cause problems for customers, the company said on Sunday. A group of hackers called Lizard Squad or ...

2014-12-29 Israel Business

Haaretz   

Antitrust chief hits back at critics of gas cartel decision   
Haaretz
Antitrust Commissioner David Gilo shot back at his critics on Sunday, saying they weren't providing any alternatives to ensuring a monopoly-free energy market. Gilo levelled a particular sharp counterattack on Orna Hozman-Bechor, the director general of the ...

2014-12-29 Israel World

ABC News   

AirAsia tycoon Tony Fernandes faces first major crisis after turning troubled ...   
South China Morning Post (subscription)
Malaysian mogul Tony Fernandes transformed a floundering carrier into Asia's biggest budget airline. Now, he faces his company's first major crisis after a Singapore-bound plane carrying 162 people disappeared from radar about halfway through the flight ...

2014-12-29 Israel Middle East

Irish Independent   

Air strike on Libya's third city escalates civil war   
Irish Independent
Smoke rises from an oil tank fire in Es Sider port December 26. A fire at an oil storage tank at Libya's Es Sider port has spread to two more tanks after a rocket hit the country's biggest terminal during clashes between forces allied to competing governments, ...

2014-12-29 Israel Israel

TODAYonline   

There already is a Palestinian state, and everyone knows it   
Haaretz
Abbas does not want to sign an agreement with Israel, nor is he capable of implementing it if he were to sign one, and he knows it. He prefers to be a phantom at the UN. By Moshe Arens | Dec. 29, 2014 | 4:55 AM ...