Michael Jackson regained the title of the top-earning dead celebrity in the past year, easily surpassing Elvis Presley and cartoonist Charles Schulz, Forbes magazine said.

THE next time you forget your partner’s birthday or fail to turn up for a planned meal, don’t look at their face for signs of anger.

RESEARCHER Oded Shoseyov of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has figured out how to get tobacco plants to produce a human-like collagen.

Allies and opponents today clamoured for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s resignation after scathing criticism from an official commission of his performance during last year’s Lebanon war.

Israeli-American Robert Aumann and American Thomas Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences today for their work in game-theory analysis.

Israel’s army will soon begin using cannabis to treat soldiers suffering from combat stress, the military said yesterday.

Israeli troops killed five Palestinians early today during a shoot-out in the southern Gaza Strip, doctors in the local hospital said.