Public television president Paula Kerger says she’s disheartened that the government has run out of money to help TV viewers buy converter boxes for the looming transition to digital conversion.

Energy Conversion Devices, a maker of materials used for producing solar energy, swung to a profit in its latest quarter as revenues doubled, the company reported Monday.

Raised without religion in Maryland, Shannon sought to make a new life for herself as a Jew in Israel.

Egypt’s highest civil court ruled Saturday that 12 Coptic Christians who had converted to Islam could return to their old faith, ending a yearlong legal battle over the predominantly Muslim state’s tolerance for conversion.The court overturned an April...