UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Monday ordered global sanctions against the Haqqani militant group in Afghanistan and its suicide attack mastermind. The network, which has been widely linked […]
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Health News: Frederick Joelving. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Of all the chocolate research out there, the most unabashed tribute to the “dark gold” has to be a study just published in one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals. Drum roll, please: The higher a country’s chocolate consumption, the […]
ScienceDaily (Apr. 27, 2008) — Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant […]
RT: While persisting gas shortages have kept New York and New Jersey running on empty, another coastal storm is approaching, threatening to set back the already-devastated regions when it strikes on Wednesday. Hurricane Sandy left more than 100 dead, caused $20 billion in damages, and left more than 8.5 million […]
Six humans trapped by happenstance In black and bitter cold Each one possessed a stick of wood, Or so the story’s told. Their dying fire in need of logs, The first woman held hers back. For on the faces around the fire, She noticed one was black. The next man […]
Source: Science Daily Parents with social anxiety disorder are more likely than parents with other forms of anxiety to engage in behaviors that put their children at high risk for developing angst of their own, according to a small study of parent-child pairs conducted at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Authors […]
Source: CNN Some patients who developed fungal meningitis in an outbreak linked to a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy are experiencing more health woes, officials said. Patients are not only developing meningitis, […]
Anyone in London interested please visit: Islamic Finance is a Growing Industry Professional suffering from shortage. To bridge this gap UMEX Group is running an Open Day which will lead to Day Two free Training Course for Women seeking a Career within this fast-growing and constantly evolving Industry. Date: Thursday, […]
A new study commissioned by the federal government recommends that Canada legalize polygamy and change legislation to help women and children living in plural relationships. The paper by three law professors at Queen’s University in Kingston argues that a Charter challenge to Section 293 of the Criminal Code banning polygamy […]
Until 38 years ago, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual listed homosexuality as a mental disorder. Today, gay marriage is legal in six states and the District of Columbia, and 53% of Americans think gay marriage should be legal everywhere. The gay marriage fight isn’t over, but it’s […]
William Lane Craig is one of the leading Christian apologists and it is useful for the Unitarians to have his confession, which I have paraphrased a little, to keep it […]
A serf in the days of King John, Max Keiser argues, was in many ways better off than some US voters in 2012. “Because in the age of Robin Hood,” Keiser says, “at least the process of theft was transparent. The barons came to your house. They whacked you over […]
By Mark Graham In the Middle Ages, while Europe was mired in superstition and feudal chaos, Baghdad was the intellectual center of the world. It was there that an army […]
Al Jazeera: Tunnels 15 metres beneath Jerusalem’s Old City threaten to penetrate the Temple Mount, home to the Al Aqsa mosque. In the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City – the […]
Shifting Economic power from G7 to developing world After successfully introducing the acronym BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or BRICS including South Africa) in 2001, Jim O’Neill, chairman of Goldman […]
Source: The New York Times By AARON B. O’CONNELL Published: November 4, 2012 IN 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office warning of the growing power of the military-industrial complex […]
Source: Huff Post. By Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate in Economics The current financial crisis makes it very clear that our current financial system is not sustainable. This is the opportune time […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: November 5, 2012 Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said that Pakistan, as a […]
فی زمانہ وطنِ عزیز میں جو حالات چل رہے ہیں ان کو دیکھ کر دل خون کے آنسو روتا ہے۔ حالانکہ ہمارے ملک کے لوگ نماز روزہ زکٰوۃ پر کافی توجہ دیتے ہیں۔ اور کسی کی تعریف کے لیے یہ کہنا کہ فلاں پنج وقتہ نمازی ہے کافی ہے۔ ہم […]