Beat desk derrière with these simple exercises, Amanda Khouv reports.

Saudi Arabian security forces have arrested a vulture they believe to be an Israeli spy.

ISRAELI archaeologists may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man, and if so, it could upset theories of the origin of humans.

UNBORN offspring can be predisposed to schizophrenia by viral infection in the womb, research has shown.

Unborn offspring can be predisposed to schizophrenia by viral infection in the womb, new research has shown.

NADAV COHEN (Letters, June 2) must be aware that Zionism began as a secular movement and is in fact strenuously resisted on religious grounds by increasingly vocal Orthodox Jewish scholars, such as Yakov Rabkin, whose book, A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism, is most enlightening.

A SYRIAN site bombed by Israel in September was probably a plant for assembling a nuclear bomb, an Israeli nuclear expert said yesterday, challenging other analysts’ conclusions that it housed a North Korean-style nuclear reactor.

Arab League envoys paying a historic visit to Israel today said they were extending “a hand of peace” on behalf of the Arab world.

A slip of the tongue by prime minister Ehud Olmert about Israel’s nuclear policy ballooned into a domestic crisis today for the already embattled Israeli leader.

ISRAEL’S military is phasing out the legendary Uzi submachine gun, calling it antiquated and replacing it with more sophisticated, electronics-outfitted weaponry.