A 30-year-old foreign worker was found dead at his apartment in the Beit Shemesh neighborhood of Jerusalem on Friday, Israeli media reported.MDA paramedics provided medical treatment to the man, and confirmed his death at the scene.Police are investigating the incident.This is a developing story.

A federal judge in Kentucky on Thursday struck down a Biden administration rule barring discrimination by schools and colleges against transgender students, saying it clashes with the federal law banning sex bias in education.

South Korean presidential security chief Park Chong-jun plans to appear for questioning by police on Friday, a spokesperson for the security service said.Investigators seeking to arrest South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for possible insurrection were blocked by his security staff in a six-hour standoff last week."Park Jong-joon, head of the Presidential Security Service, is scheduled to appear at 10 a.m. on the 10th at the request of the police to conduct an investigation," Jin Seon-ho, Public Information Officer for the service said.

A synagogue in Sydney was daubed in antisemitic graffiti on Friday, police said, the latest in a spate of incidents targeting Jews in Australia.Police will deploy a special task force to investigate the attack on the Southern Sydney Synagogue in the suburb of Allawah that happened in the early hours of Friday morning, New South Wales State Police Assistant Commissioner Peter McKenna told a news conference."(There is) no place in Australia, our tolerant multicultural community, for this sort of criminal activity," Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told a news conference.

Canada's Liberal Party said late on Thursday that it would choose a new leader on March 9 to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Trudeau announced on Monday that he will step down in the coming months after nine years in power, bowing to pressure from lawmakers alarmed by his Liberal Party's miserable showing in pre-election polls.