2014-08-27 Israel More Top Stories

  Boston Globe   

Peter Theo Curtis, released in Syria, reunited with family in Boston  Boston Globe
Curtis family/Associated Press. Peter Theo Curtis was photographed in Newark, N.J., Tuesday. Peter Theo Curtis, the writer who spent nearly two years in captivity after being kidnapped in 2012 by Islamic militants in Syria, arrived back in Boston on Tuesday, ...

2014-08-27 Israel Health

  A Kilcullen Diary   

York plea for more organ donors  The Press, York
A YORK woman who has nine hours of dialysis a day has urged people to join the organ donor register - as it emerged there are 45 people currently waiting for life-saving kidney transplants in North Yorkshire. Jayne Jackson, 55, of Haxby, has been waiting ...

2014-08-27 Israel Entertainment

  Daily Mail   

It's Canberrrrrrrra for the Greens golden girl as Senator Sarah Hanson-Young ...  Daily Mail
The 'Ice Bucket Challenge' has gone political with Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young tipping the bucket on herself today in Canberra. The mercury was sitting at barely four degrees which she joined the In doing so, she also uttered words which would ...

2014-08-27 Israel Sci/Tech

  French Tribune   

Ancient copper awl predates tin bronze items in Southern Levant region by 3000 ...  ChristianToday
Archeologists unearthed an ancient copper awl, believed to be from the late 6th to the early 5th millennia CalBC, in an archeological dig in Tel Tsaf, Jordan Valley, Israel. According to the researchers, it predates all known metals in the southern Levant region ...

2014-08-27 Israel Business

  NDTV   

Once 'Best in the West', Israel's economy shows cracks  Firstpost
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - For more than a decade, Israel's high-tech-fuelled economy has weathered the global financial crisis and several military conflicts with little impact on growth or the free flow of foreign investment. But its strong run, which led former ...

2014-08-27 Israel World

  RT   

Putin, Poroshenko hold bilateral meeting in Minsk  The Hindu
Ukraine and Russia have agreed to hold military consultations over the bloody conflict in eastern Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko said late on Tuesday after two hours of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The consultations between members of ...

2014-08-27 Israel Middle East

  NBCNews.com   

Syria: 33-year-old Douglas McCain first American jihadi to die fighting for ISIL  Firstpost
Washington: California-born Douglas McAuthur McCain has become the first American jihadi to have died in Syria while fighting for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a terrorist outfit that has gained control of large parts of Syria and Iraq. The death of ...