(Reuters) – U.S. consumer sentiment rose to its highest level in more than four years in early May as Americans were upbeat about the job market and buying plans improved, a survey showed on Friday, offering an encouraging sign for the economic recovery. Separate data earlier in the day showed […]
Source: CNN The trial of admitted Norway mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was disrupted Friday when a brother of one of the 77 people killed in last summer’s massacre threw […]
German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble says if the Greeks don’t like the rules they can leave, this is unfair and it won’t work. There is a ritual in European politics […]
Source: Time Magazine For centuries, Native Americans have been on the receiving end of some of the worst atrocities committed on U.S. soil, driven from their homes and isolated on […]
by Fabius Maximus Summary: This article by guest author Franz Gayl (Major, USMC, retired) looks ahead beyond Israel’s current moment in the sun. They face a divided Arab people and even more fragmented Islamic societies, which they overawe by their massive military strength — exercised in the shadow of the […]
One of the video’s made at the Union Square “Muslims for Life,” blood drive, by Ahmad Chaudhry and Salaam Bhatti of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, was nominated as a Finalist by CNN iReports. Only 36 out of over 15,000 videos were chosen as finalists. It was nominated in the “Interview” category. […]
Jakarta Globe: Illiterate Farmer Faces 10-Year Sentence after Taking Piece of Wood (He) should have stolen a few million dollars or killed an Ahmadiyah instead…. what a screwed place this is becoming- Says DrDez An illiterate farmer never imagined he would have to spend months in a police detention center […]
Source: Point of no return I bring you notice of a series of lectures starting on Monday 14 May 2012, (17:30-19:00h at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London – Khalili lecture theatre): The opening lecture is titled:” How Islam Saved the Jews”. Professor David J Wasserstein, a professor at […]
Huff Post These words of prophetic wisdom were delivered, last week, to me at the very height of my own crisis, from a very close friend and mentor, a spiritual warrior, who, as of late, has endured many valleys of his own, yet still continues on his daily trek toward […]
Express Tribune: by Fahim Younas: As a rejected son, how do you celebrate Mother’s Day? Who enjoys the breakfast tray? Who receives the flower bouquet? That’s my story. But it’s […]
eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk: The event began with a 10k run by serious competitors, but was followed by 2,500 fun-runners turning up, some in fancy dress, to raise up to £500,000. It was […]
Russian TV: As Tehran finally makes efforts to rehabilitate its nuclear program with the West, a new piece of counter-evidence emerges: a CGI picture of an allegedly Iranian nuclear blast […]
Asia Times online: By Sudha Ramachandran BANGALORE – Kashmir’s Grand Mufti Mohammed Bashir-ud-din is stirring the communal and sectarian cauldron in the valley again. Barely four months after he issued […]
Sara Blakely’s story is inspirational. The 41-year-old Floridian began her working life as a door-to-door fax-machine salesperson. Then one day she looked in the mirror — but not at her face. She realized that she needed underwear that didn’t show lines and held in her wobbly bits. This led to […]
By RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARAB NEWS STAFF Foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) met here yesterday to draw up the agenda for the consultative meeting of […]
By JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saudi Arabia will chair the 5th conference of environment ministers from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, on Thursday. Head of the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME) Prince Turki bin Nasser, who is also chairman of the […]
Reform drive receives grass-roots support by Jordan Times AMMAN — Notables and community leaders of the Beersheba and other major tribes living in Amman and its outskirts on Sunday renewed […]
by Areej Abuqudairi | May 13,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Turkey is reworking its foreign policy to play a much more active role in the region following the unrest prompted by the Arab Spring, academicians said on Sunday. Speaking at the Third Arab and Turkish Dialogue Forum, Hassan Barari, […]
Riyadh: Saudi King Abdullah on Friday sacked one of his advisers, an outspoken critic of the sexes mingling outside the home, something banned in the ultra-conservative kingdom. The state news agency SPA published the decree announcing the dismissal of Shaikh Abdul Mohsen Al Obaikan, an adviser to the royal cabinet, without […]
Manama: A Saudi national found guilty of hitting his wife has been sentenced to reading two books that explain relations between spouses in Islam. He will later sit for a test on what he learned from the books. Read more