A recent excavation uncovered 12 human skeletons and a chamber of funerary offerings near the Treasury building in Petra, a UNESCO world heritage site.
The court has handed down a guilty verdict and 10-year sentence to a former officer of East Germany's feared secret police, in a case straight out of the Cold War.
At the start of the digital age, he worked at Bell Labs on the intersection of art and technology, making films and at one point arriving at a new theory about the “Mona Lisa.”
Israeli soldiers and former Palestinian detainees say troops have regularly forced captured Gazans to carry out life-threatening tasks, including inside Hamas tunnels.
Driving in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is an incredibly different experience depending on who you are. Ben Hubbard, international correspondent for the New York Times, took two bus trips, one for Israelis, the other for Palestinians, which tell a story of separate and unequal paths.