A German social media ban for children will face legal hurdles, mainly from European law, according to a report by parliament's scientific service seen by dpa on Sunday. Parents' rights on how they bring up their children, which are constitutionally guaranteed in Germany, could also present an obstacle to a ban on social media platforms, says the report, which was commissioned by the far left Die Linke opposition party.

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that took over the world and would eventually lead to us. More than 700 fossils found in southwestern China’s Yunnan province offer a window into life from 539 million years ago, during the waning end of the Ediacaran period, a time of simple but strange animals that lived two-dimensionally in the oceans, never goi

Earlier, Likud MK Tally Gotliv publicly revealed his identity, in defiance of a court-issued gag order. Assistant-Chief Meni Benjamin, the head of the Israel Police’s Lahav 433 - The National Crime Unit, is currently under investigation by the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigative Department (PID) on suspicion of breach of trust and abuse of power, Israeli media reported on Thursday.