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The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, described the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, as a “liar” in a private exchange with Barack Obama at last week’s G20 summit in Cannes that was inadvertently broadcast to journalists.

A Libyan Jew who returned to the country after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in hopes of resurrecting its Jewish community said on Monday that he was forced to stop work on the long-abandoned Tripoli synagogue after a violent threat.

The photographs of Representative Gabrielle Giffords have been released, almost six months after she was gunned down and shot in the head in Tucson in January.

Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias literature award on Wednesday for a body of work of "immutable merit," the jury said.

Jewish Mark Ndesandjo meets with chief rabbi, agrees to press Obama to release Jonathan Pollard

Owners of an Austrian pastry shop that showcases cakes decorated with Nazi themes should be prosecuted, a Holocaust awareness group urged.

An American museum has agreed to return a 370 year-old painting that was looted by the Nazis during the Second World War.

The Israeli medical delegation will establish a medical clinic geared to handle the casualties and refugees concentrated in the Miyagi prefecture, six hours north of Tokyo.

Court said prosecutors proved case that Gross was working on a subversive program, paid for by the U.S., that aimed to bring down Cuba's revolutionary system.

Former U.S. Secretary of State says justice will be served even without life sentence; Netanyahu in January made first Israeli appeal for Pollard's release.