South Africa’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the use of corporal punishment at home violates children’s rights. It ruled that the “reasonable and moderate chastisement” of children as a form of physical discipline is unconstitutional. The court said there were effective ways to discipline a child without the use of corporal punishment, BBC Africa reported. […]

Israel’s election was too close to call on Wednesday, with a partial vote tally showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tied with his main rival, former military chief Benny Gantz. An official result was still hours, perhaps days off. But with more than 63 per cent of votes counted, the Netanyahu-led right-wing bloc was, as expected, […]

Saudi Arabia said it would produce evidence on Wednesday linking regional rival Tehran to an unprecedented attack on its oil industry that Washington believes originated from Iran in a dangerous escalation of Middle East frictions. But Tehran again denied involvement in the Sept. 14 attacks on oil plants, including the world’s biggest crude processing facility, […]

A United Kingdom (British) citizen who has three children and lives in a council house says he has ‘no intention’ of finding full-time work as it’s ‘not in his psyche’ but denies he’s abusing the UK’s social housing system. Matt Allen lives with his wife Adele and their three children, eight-year-old Ulysses, Ostara, four, and […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Benny Gantz’s centrist Blue and White party were neck-and-neck in Israel’s general election, according to exit polls late Tuesday.