I agree with Prof. Dawkins expressions of religious tolerance but take issue with how he describes Einstein’s religion. Dawkins in this clip and in his book the God Delusion, claims […]
Gun manufacturers would likely not be the first to come to mind when considering industries who have benefited the most during President Obama’s first term, but a study from Ammo.net finds that firearm sales and concealed handgun permit applications are at all-time highs since the 2008 election. Just to show a few statistics […]
LISBON, Portugal – For nearly 600 years, Portugal had one of the greatest colonial empires in Europe, commanding trade centers in Africa, South America and China. Now, laid low by […]
Source: The New York Times RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Rick Ruzzamenti admits to being a tad impulsive. He traded his Catholicism for Buddhism in a revelatory flash. He married a Vietnamese woman he had only just met. And then a year ago, he decided in an instant to donate his left […]
Source: The Local Germans generally agree that Joachim Gauck is a good choice for president. But can the ex-pastor be the nation’s moral authority while staying married to one woman […]
Cat is out of the bag. After a life time of idealizing and making an idol out of Sir Charles Darwin, Prof. Richard Dawkins has a Freudian slip that any […]
Source: twocircles.net By Sujit Chakraborty, IANS, Akhaurah (India-Bangladesh border) : With hundreds and thousands of people from either side of the border present and vivid functions and commemorations of the language martyrs, India and Bangladesh Tuesday jointly organised the International Mother Language Day. Men, women and young students belonging to […]
Source: Feb 19, 2012, 06.46PM IST DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that Bangladesh was working to make Bangla an official UN language considering the vast number of its speakers and its rich literary heritage. Bangladesh is trying to establish Bangla as one of the official languages of the […]
WASHINGTON — President Obama will ask Congress to scrub the corporate tax code of dozens of loopholes and subsidies to reduce the top rate to 28 percent, down from 35 percent, while giving preferences to manufacturers that would set their maximum effective rate at 25 percent, a senior administration official […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: February 22, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Mansoor Ijaz has arrived at the Pakistan High Commission in London to record his statement […]
Source: NY Times. Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower, the narrow-leafed campion, that died 32,000 years ago, a team of Russian scientists reports. The fruit was stored by an arctic ground squirrel in its burrow on the tundra of northeastern Siberia and lay […]
Wafa: Palestinian News Agency: RAMALLAH, February 21, 2012 (WAFA) – The Cabinet Tuesday condemned continuous attempts by Israeli settlers and extremists to raid Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City and […]
Jakarta Globe: Angry residents of Nunukan, East Kalimantan, are threatening to set out poison for a group of elephants blamed for destroying crops in the area. (AFP Photo) Angry residents […]
Jakarta Globe: Cianjur, West Java. Twenty men have been named suspects in the Friday attack on a mosque used by Ahmadiyah sect members in Cipeuyeum village, Cianjur, West Java, police […]
Businessinsider.com: “No government has ever commanded the resources at the disposal of our ungodly Leviathan, which consumes about 25% of the product of the world’s richest country. It is driven by a voracious alliance of government’s own employees, and those who receive benefits from the state. At least 90 million […]
Several museums in Istanbul are holding major exhibitions of famous Dutch paintings to mark 400 years of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Netherlands. Ties between the two countries go back to 1612, when Cornelis Haga presented his credentials to Sultan Ahmet I as the first ambassador the Dutch Republic […]
Source: China Daily BEIJING – Trade relations between China and Turkey will deepen in the coming years despite inevitable frictions, experts said. “Trade frictions between China and Turkey are inevitable as bilateral trade volume expands and the global economic slowdown intensifies export competition between the two fast-growing economies,” Li Guofu, […]
Dawn: Murtaza Haider: Pakistanis are fast becoming a wasted nation. The alarmingly high level of malnutrition observed in Pakistan in the past few years is far worse than what has […]
by Linda Heard, ARABNEWS Washington and its Western allies ideally would like to see Iran brought to its knees for a number of reasons. Iran’s nuclear capability, for all the hype, isn’t one of them. There is no proof that Tehran is working toward a nuclear bomb — and even […]
Jordan, China seek to enhance commercial, investment cooperation AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday called for increasing efforts to end the crisis in Syria through peaceful ways, a […]