In September 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin received a mysterious and unsettling warning. The message claimed that his life was in danger — and that this danger had been foretold, hidden ...

After Drosnin’s Bible Code circus, however, the problem came to the attention of the probability theorist Brendan McKay, who showed that any text would throw up similarly spooky juxtapositions. (In ...

Italy has handed a Bible belonging to the former Godfather of the Sicilian Mafia to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the hope that it may provide the key to a secret code he used to communicate ...