The actual headline reads: Does chocolate help you win a Nobel prize? by Chantal Britt, swissinfo.ch A humorous but scientifically sound column published in the renowned New England Journal of […]
Source: Asiatimes: By Pepe Escobar It’s time for the 3am question. A crisis erupts – or is manufactured – in some turbulent part of the world and putative US President Mitt Romney must rise to the occasion. What is a gallant server of the 47% to do to save the […]
Source: Spiegel. AP Moscow is denying that weapons were on board the Syrian Air jet forced to land in Ankara on Wednesday. But the incident is likely to increase tensions between Turkey and Syria. As Putin’s cancellation of a Monday visit to Istanbul shows, Turkey’s relationship with Russia could also […]
Source: Spiegel. AFP Political confidant of President Vladimir Putin (pictured here): “We think that Assad is still supported by a majority of the population.” Vladimir Putin has delayed a planned trip to Turkey following the forced landing of a Syrian plane in Ankara. In an interview, Vladimir Yukanin, a confidant […]
October 10, 2012 12:43 AM By David Ignatius The Daily Star Leading the fight in Sakhour on the eastern side of the embattled city of Aleppo is the Tawafuk Battalion […]
In Aleppo there is still no sign of the heavy weapons for which the rebels have pleaded and ammunition is running low by Martin Chulov and Ian Black guardian.co.uk, Wednesday […]
Source: Albawaba Business Emirates Islamic Bank (EIB), one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the region and the Islamic banking arm of Emirates NBD Group, announced today the launch of a three weeks-long “Indian Rupee (INR) Remittance Campaign,” which offers customers the opportunity to remit funds to India at […]
Source: The Hindu Written by Markandey Katju Indians must defeat all those elements that promote and thrive on religious hatred Though many Hindus and Muslims in India are today infected by the virus of communalism, the fact is that before 1857 there was no communal feeling at all in most […]
The Times of Israel: I ride the metro to work at the ungodly hour of 5:45 each morning. I sit there, and when I am not busy staring at the […]
The Times of Israel: Leaders of several major US Christian denominations — including Protestants, Presbyterians, Baptists, Lutherans and Methodists — have asked members of Congress to reconsider US aid to […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week to the lowest level in more than four and a half years, according to government data on Thursday that suggested improvement in the labor market. The news could help President Barack Obama in […]
It has tonnes of evidence put together in a very constructive way. Day by day we are moving towards uncovering the mask of the false dogma of Christianity. Read more about the Film at: An interview with the Director: The documentary suggests DNA testing as further research to advance the […]
Manama: A Yemeni young man has claimed to have found the oldest surviving manuscript of the Holy Quran. The book venerated by Muslims was found inside a leather cover in a cave in the mountains south of the city of Dhale in the southern part of the country, Yemeni Arabic […]
The Mormon church will lower its minimum age requirements for missionaries from 19 to 18 for men and from 21 to 19 for women, the faith’s president announced Saturday The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — THE SEATTLE TIMES The Mormon church will lower its minimum age requirements for missionaries […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — School teacher Darlene Derosier lost her home in the 2010 earthquake that devastated her country. Her husband died a month later after suffering what she said […]
Wednesday, October, 10 2012 – PUNJAB NEWSLINE QADIAN (GURDASPUR): A high level of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat delegate met Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in his resident today and demanded […]
Source: Stratfor: “Evolution and Trends in Terrorism Tradecraftis republished with permission of Stratfor.” The terrorist tradecraft discussed in last week’s Security Weekly does not happen in isolation. The practitioners of terrorist tradecraft conduct their activities in the midst of other people — the authorities attempting to identify them and thwart […]
21 Major Reasons Why Romney Is Unfit To Be President, By Dr Gideon Polya http://www.countercurrents.org/polya081012.htm 08 October, 2012 Countercurrents.org 1. 1.1 million American preventable deaths annually. Ultimately these deaths could have been prevented by better regulation of dangerous capitalism, better education, better preventive medicine and more money devoted to health […]
The Swiss government is tightening up the rules on the export of all war material after Swiss-made grenades – originally sold to the United Arab Emirates – turned up in […]
AMMAN – The Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) denied on Wednesday the presence of US military forces assisting Jordan to confront the potential dangers posed by Syria’s chemical weapon stockpiles. In […]