Toulouse: French Teacher urges minute of silence for Merah
Global Post.Com: A French high school teacher faces disciplinary action after she urged students to observe a minute of silence for Mohammed Merah, the man who shot and killed three […]
Why the World Bank has no real intentions of reducing poverty
The Global Post.com: Joel Elliott: WALTHAM, Massachusetts — It’s time for the World Bank to stop pretending significant progress is being made in reducing extreme global poverty. The self-congratulatory report it issued recently claimed it […]
23rd March: The Promised Messiah Day: The Latter Day Blessings of Islam
Examiner.com: By Ayesha Noor: Happy 122nd Promised Messiah Day to everyone. March 23rd of the year 1889 became a revolutionary day in world religions’ history. On that day the waiting […]
Man is in Constant Search for the Divine!
By Zia H Shah MD The distinguished psychiatrist, Dr. Carl Jung, who was a contemporary of Freud and is well known for several contributions in the field, says in the […]
Enjoying massage of the future at the world’s top IT fair
Source: Philippine News HANOVER – With all the frantic deal-making and head-spinning gadgets at the world’s top IT fair, it is perhaps no surprise that a chair promising the benefit of two hours sleep in 20 minutes drew big queues. The “brainLight” system, which its makers claim is unique, uses […]
Why Midlife Rocks Your World
Source: Huff Post – The Blog In my career and executive coaching, I work with hundreds of women each year going through major transitions. Recently, I was speaking with a fascinating client of mine — let’s call her “Carol” — who shared with me her views about midlife BEFORE she had […]
Asma al-Assad: EU travel ban will not stop Bashar al-Assad’s wife travelling to UK
Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of the Syrian president, has been subjected to a travel ban and asset freeze in the European Union, after revelations about an online shopping spree […]
6 Ancient Muslim Inventions We Still Use Today
Source: Huff Post Religion Imagine that you’re on a camping trip. Are you jaunting through the Rockies, an earth-toned REI tent in tow? Imagine that you’re in a garden. Are you admiring the symmetry and scrupulousness of Versailles? Or getting your hands dirty in a community plot with rows of […]
John Sentamu attacks ‘aggressive atheism’
Christianity is under threat from a new, intolerant brand of “aggressive atheism” intent on driving religion out of public life, the Archbishop of York warned yesterday. Christianity is under threat […]
UK: Pain for motorists as filling car with petrol touches £100
The cost of filling a large family car with petrol rose to almost £100 yesterday, as forecourt prices reached record heights. The AA said the cost of unleaded petrol reached […]
A growing number of Russians are converting to Islam,
BBC Uzbek service. More than two million Muslims now live and work in Moscow. It has become one of the biggest cities for Muslims in Europe and its few houses of worship can no longer cope. During Friday prayers the historic building is overflowing and thousands of faithful are praying […]
College President Is Obama’s Pick for World Bank Chief
WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday named Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth College and a global health expert, as its nominee to lead the World Bank. That makes Dr. Kim the front-runner to take the helm of the multinational development institution on June 30, when its current […]
Liter by Liter, Indians Get Cleaner Water
Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — As evening falls in Chuddani, a village of about 500 homes, people arrive by bicycle, motorbike, tractor and on foot with jugs that they fill with water from faucets outside a neat blue shed. Inside the building is a filtration plant […]
Dartmouth’s Kim tapped to lead World Bank
Credit: Washington Post Zachary Goldfarb and Howard Schneider 3:20 PM ET Obama nominates Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, saying he was seeking someone with Kim’s expertise in public health to head what he called ”the world’s largest development agency.” More:
No Apologies
Credit: Newyork Times: I thought I’d take a look back at apologies that should have been delivered, but never were. Lyndon Johnson, for ordering covert operations in the gulf of Tonkin and then lying about it, leading to the war in Vietnam. Also for expanding the war while promising not […]
Poland’s Vulnerability Amid Missile Diplomacy
Credit: Stratfor: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L), German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (C) and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in Berlin on March 21 Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski visited Berlin on March 21 to meet informally with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and Russian Foreign […]
ADVENT OF THE MESSIAH–DESCEND OR RETURN?
ADVENT OF THE MESSIAH—DESCEND OR RETURN? Ansar Raza In all world languages, the term used to express a person’s movement from one place to another is different from the term used to express the movement back from the second place to the first. If a person moves from point A […]
Jumping Genes in the Brain Ensure That Even Identical Twins Are Different
Source: American Scientist: Genes we inherit and environmental factors both influence human behaviors. Scientists have recently discovered other underlying processes at work. So-called jumping genes, segments of DNA that can […]
Israel will not cooperate with the UNHRC’s “fact-finding mission”
Israel Won’t Cooperate with UNHRC’s ‘Goldstone 2’ Diplomatic source: Israel will not cooperate with the UNHRC’s “fact-finding mission”, won’t legitimize an illegitimate body. By Elad Benari Israel announced on Thursday night that it would not be cooperating with the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) new “fact-finding mission” to investigate […]
Holy Qur’an Exhibition visits Fort Saskatchewan
Source: The Record – Religious misconceptions addressed at open house Misconceptions about Islam, some perpetuated by recent events, were addressed at an open house on the Holy Qur’an held at the Fort Saskatchewan Public Library March 17. “The idea started when Pastor Terry Jones burnt the Qur’an,” said Noman Khalil, […]