In one of its more widespread acts of demolition, the Civil Administration last week left 127 men, women and children without shelter in 42-degree-Celsius heat.

Insurgents fire some 200 shells into areas in and around Kefraya and al-Foua as Syrian warplanes carry out raids elsewhere in Idlib, says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

In Israel, even Jewish couples who were married outside of the country can only be granted a divorce by the Rabbinate. Thus, same-sex couples who wish to separate find themselves in a legal lacuna.

The trial against three Al-Jazeera reporters from Egypt, Canada and Australia was criticized worldwide by press freedom advocates.

Saturday's protest is expected to be the largest of the demonstrations that began last week over the country's dysfunctional political system.

Demonstration reportedly triggered by execution of a civil servant for killing a member of the militant group.

'Black Pete,' a depiction of Santa Clause's assistant, is a 'vestige of slavery,' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination says.

About 700 of university's 7,000 graduate and undergraduate students are Jews, local Hillel says, but number of Orthodox students who would benefit from eruv unavailable.