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Taha, a young-handsome man from Tunisia got stuck in an elevator in Jordan with a beautiful stranger. She asked him where he was from. When he told her, she replied, "Omg, I love Tunisia! I am from Israel." So what did the two so-called "enemies" do stuck in a small-enclosed space? They embraced each other in a warm hug and took a selfie of course. A new friendship emerged. This is...

Though the founding father of a tiny country on the tip of the Malay peninsula, Lee Kuan Yew was one of the giants of the arriving Asian century. Not only did he miraculously transform the impoverished colonial entrepôt of Singapore, rife with drugs and prostitution, into a gleaming model city-state of the 21st century; his practical vision of soft-authoritarian capitalism also became the...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberians are overcoming their fears of Ebola to volunteer for a vaccine trial. The gruesome toll of West Africa's Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than 4,200 Liberians of the more than 10,000 who have succumbed to the disease, has intensified efforts to find a vaccine for a disease that previously infected relatively few people in remote areas. One year after...

Dogs and humans have been BFFs for a very long time -- at least 10,000 years. No surprise there. But have you ever wondered just how dogs and other animals got domesticated, and why? And how today's domesticated animals differ from their wild predecessors? The story is even more complicated than you might imagine. To learn more about how man's best friend came to be -- and how dogs...

Gluten. I can think of no other protein that has gotten so much bad press in the last decade. Justified or not? Read on, and let me know what you think. Celebrity authors and credible authorities alike have increasingly taken a stand against gluten. The result is a nationwide anti-gluten movement, in which gluten-free (GF) products are flying off supermarket shelves at record -- perhaps...

Israel's 2015 elections will surely be extensively studied and dissected to detect trends, statistics and voter preferences. But most of all, they serve as the starting point of the Israeli left's soul-searching marathon titled "where did we go wrong." The perhaps idealist bubble of Tel Aviv was shattered into pieces when official results rolled out and it was obvious that Israeli Prime...

Cheers! Kampai! L'Chaim! No matter how you say it, the clink of glasses brimming with beer can bring universal joy to humans. But the preferred choice of amber nectar differs vastly by country. Vinepair, a site focused on wine and booze, mapped out the world's favorite beers by cross-referencing corporate earnings and research reports. Countries where data were unavailable, such as Papua...

What if there was a preventative measure that could slash your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by up to half? Some nutritionists may have found it, in the form of a Mediterranean-based diet that's high in nutrients and low in sugar and unhealthy fats. The brain-healthy (and fittingly named) MIND diet -- which stands for "Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay"...