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Rock star Bon Jovi reportedly has cut his fee for an upcoming rock concert in Madrid slated for June 27, as a way to ease the financial burden that has hit the country in recent years

Professor Mauro Perani, who teaches Hebrew at the University of Bologna, said he has found what is believed to be the world's oldest Torah scroll, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. Professor Perani said the scroll originally was believed to be no more than a few hundred years old, but studies and carbon dating test suggest it may have been written around 850 years ago.

A southwestern Illinois announced he was stepping down in a brief letter to the county's chief judge, days after he was charged with federal heroin and gun offenses in a widening court scandal