All communication links with the only Indian satellite orbiting the Moon have been lost, India’s space agency says. Radio contact with the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was

A man driving a tractor has carried out an attack in Jerusalem and has been shot dead, according to Israeli emergency services. Police say the

Israel says it has launched an inquiry after an Israeli human rights group released footage that appears to show a soldier shoot a Palestinian detainee.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is visiting Lebanon at the head of a large delegation of government ministers and leaders of French opposition parties. A spokesman

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said drastic measures are needed to stop Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. Speaking to the main pro-Israel lobby in the

The state department has reinstated Fulbright grants for seven Palestinians in Gaza to study in the US. This reverses a decision to withdraw the scholarships

The US military says levels of violence in Iraq are at their lowest for four years, but what psychological effect has constant unrest had on

Messianic Jews in Israel say they want an inquiry into the burning of hundreds of copies of the New Testament by Orthodox Jews in Or