CAIRO—A broad cross-section of Egyptian political parties lodged strong objections to attempts by the country’s ruling military council to expand its authority over the process of drafting the country’s first postrevolutionary constitution. The complaints came on Wednesday after Deputy Prime Minister Ali al-Selmi asked some 500 politicians from among Egypt’s […]
China has joined two space vehicles together in orbit for the first time. The unmanned Shenzhou 8 craft, launched earlier this week, made contact with the Tiangong-1 space lab at 1729 GMT. The union occurred over China itself. Being able to dock two space vehicles together is a necessary capability […]
Companies from Russia and China are most likely to pay bribes when doing business abroad, a survey suggests. The two scored worst out of 28 countries in a poll of 3,000 business executives conducted by anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI). Read More…
Federal Reserve officials lowered their outlook for U.S. economic growth in 2012 and forecast that unemployment will average from 8.5 percent to 8.7 percent in the final three months of next year. The forecasts were released after the Federal Open Market Committee today acknowledged economic growth “strengthened somewhat” in the […]
THE raging debate over the Teaching of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) is unlikely to simmer down despite the Government’s unequivocal stand that there will be no policy reversal. The protagonists have fought long and hard in a battle where, sadly, the real victims are our young generation, whose […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has officially become a member of the Antarctic Treaty Pact. It is the first Asean country and the 49th nation to do so. Malaysia’s accession to the treaty as a non-consultative party means that it can take part in the decision-making process at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative […]
Germany: BASEL: A worker uses an air blower to remove foliage during sunny autumn weather at the Wettsteinplatz square. reuters
http://www.thestar.com/business/smallbusiness/article/1073086–do-immigrants-make-better-entrepreneurs Toronto entrepreneur Haroon Mirza is a self-made millionaire at the age of just 29. Mirza and his two partners, who sold their software company to Intel last year, credit hard work and timely advice for their success. But Mirza also gives part of the credit to the fact he […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: A total of 177,426 pilgrims from 46 non-Arab African countries have so far arrived in Saudi Arabia to perform Haj, the chairman of the board of directors of the Tawafa Establishment for Non-Arab African Pilgrims announced Tuesday. Abdul Wahid Seifuddin said 142,134 […]
By Hakim Hazik ‘Verily, we are for God and to Him we must return.’ Your Majesty the Malik of the Holy Peninsula, the Servitor of the Holy Harems and the peerless conqueror of the Satanic Kingdom of Bahrain, please accept my heartfelt condolences at the sad passing away of the […]
Why Europe Can’t Solve Its Debt Crisis http://ti.me/uKg4il
By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – HRH Prince Hassan on Tuesday called for the establishment of a regional social charter that acts as a “legal covenant for a just distribution of resources and human security”. In his address at the opening of the Sixth Jordanian International Mining Conference, he proposed that […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM/GENEVA (Agencies) – Israel is to build some 2,000 new settler housing units in annexed East Jerusalem and the West Bank in response to a UNESCO decision to admit Palestine as a full member, a senior official said Tuesday. The decision was taken at a meeting of Prime Minister […]
ADB cites critical dev’t bottlenecks – The Philippine Star » News » Business: http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philstar.com%2FArticle.aspx%3FarticleId%3D743637%26publicationSubCategoryId%3D66
By Zubair Khalil Khan Select invitations, to be the speaker for the conference, by Indian National Society of Oral Implantologists, were only sent to those International Dental Surgeons, who through their expertise were deemed to be developing efficient and more caring praxis thus providing excellent health care services similar […]
The judgement day is nearer than you think. The most profound implication, however, is that it would abolish the ability to lie. http://www.economist.com/node/21534780?frsc=dg%7Cb via @theeconomist
Baby Loup lawyer Richard Malka (L) with director Natalia Baleato By RFI France – Article published the Thursday 27 October 2011 A French court has ruled that a private nursery had the right to fire an employee for wearing Islamic head-cover, leading its lawyer to hail an advance for […]
By Fida Muhammad Adeel Published: November 2, 2011 Source/Courtesy:Xpress Tribune PESHAWAR: Afghans have lost faith in Pakistan due to the latter’s “impulsive” actions, veteran Afghan warlord Gulbudin Hekmatyar said on Tuesday even as Washington has enlisted Islamabad’s help in finding a negotiated settlement to the decade-old war in Afghanistan. “In its quest […]
By RFI The offices of French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo were hit by an apparent arson attack overnight just ahead of the publication of an edition carrying a front-page cartoon of the prophet Mohammed. Charlie Hebdo’s issue this week renamed itself Charia Hebdo and featured a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed threatening […]