Nesw.com.au THE death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has climbed above 900, with hundreds still missing, the government says. Typhoon Bopha killed 902 people mostly on the southern island of Mindanao, where floods and landslides caused major damage in nearly 2000 villages on December […]
The wife of Mr. Abdul Hamid (founder of famous Shaheen Sweets and Restaurant at Lexington Ave NY and in Jackson Heights) and grandmother of Zeeshan Hamid of Shaheen Hicksville, breathed her last on Dec 11th, 2012. Inna lillahe wa inna alehe rajeeon. The funeral prayer (Janaza) will be held on […]
Source: Daily Star Bangladesh will confer awards on 65 more foreign friends in the fourth phase on December 15 for their outstanding contributions to the country’s Liberation War 41 years ago. The foreign friends’ support came when Bangalees stood up against the atrocities and genocide and contributed to the eventful […]
Source: Financial Express Mamun Rashid The gentleman is my childhood buddy. After the college, he went to East Europe for higher studies, then to Canada; got married to a Central American lady and he is now settled in New Zealand. In the past, whenever he visited Dhaka, he used to […]
Middleeastmonitor: More than 70 Jewish settlers broke into the sacred courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday morning, performing Talmudic rituals and writing racist phrases on the walls before they left. […]
Tassia Sipahutar, The Jakarta Post Jakarta ranks first on the most preferred destinations list for real estate investment, according to the “Emerging Trends in Real Estate: Asia Pacific 2013” survey […]
Epigraph: “O children of Adam! look to your adornment at every time and place of worship, and eat and drink but exceed not the bounds; surely, He does not love […]
Ynetnews; Israeli education professionals say dramatic bump in achievements of Israeli school kids in international tests may stem form exclusion of haredi, special education pupils After international studies’ findings point to an impressive rise in Israeli schoolchildren’s achievements in math, science, and language skills, responses among education professionals vary. Though […]
Source: ET 1. Her sleeping habits On the two days that she is home, my daughter-in-law (DIL) will lock herself in her room — with my grandson — and sleep for hours. She won’t come out till midday. This is neither a dorm nor a hotel room, young lady! 2. […]
Source: The Local: Like Scrooge McDuck or the dragon Smaug in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Germans are gathering vast quantities of gold – a study showed that the average German owns close to €6,000 worth of the shiny metal. More:
Source: The Local: The initial suspects of the suspected attempted bombing in Bonn have been released, but police have published a photo-fit image of a man seen leaving the explosive, said to be as big as one of the bombs that devastated Madrid in 2004. More:
Source: Asia Times: By Farideh Farhi HAWAII – As the Iranian leadership prepares to engage in negotiations with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) over the fate of its nuclear program, the conversation inside Iran has moved beyond the nuclear issue, and now includes […]
Source: Asia Times: By David Vine “Are you monitoring the construction?” asked the middle-aged man on a bike accompanied by his dog. “Ah, si,” I replied in my barely passable Italian. “Bene,” he answered. Good. In front of us, a backhoe’s guttural engine whined into action and empty dump trucks […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar The European Union (EU), this Monday in Oslo, received the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights. How exciting. Look at the cast selected to receive the award; the spectacularly useless Herman van Rompuy (president of the European Council); the […]
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian and Israeli officials will meet in Jordan in February in efforts to support the peace process, King Abdullah II of Jordan was quoted as saying by […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD If the 33 million Christians and the 3 million Muslims start talking to each other in UK, hell would break loose! Yes […]
Huff Post: Salam Al MarayatiThis week, a historic convention will take place involving American Muslims and All Saints Church in rosy Pasadena — the first national Muslim convention at a church. We will move to how we collectively work for a cultural climate change that ends the paradigm of polarization. America’s religious […]
Source: Business Insider | Dec 11, 2012 10:22 AM ET | http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/11/extreme-anti-islam-posters-to-cover-new-york-subway-stations-next-week/ Anti-Islam posters with depictions of the World Trade Towers in flames will be plastered around 50 different New York MTA stations beginning December 17. The $10,000-plus campaign is part of an ongoing campaign by Pamela Geller, executive director […]
Russian TV: ‘Jedi’ is now the most popular faith in the ‘Other Religions’ category in England and Wales. Those identifying with the Star Wars creed outnumber atheists, taking seventh place […]
By Dan Holden | Published: December 11, 2012 Source: http://www.leftfootforward.org/2012/12/donald-trump-fox-news-islamophobia/ Fox News has re-launched one of its many anger-fuelled campaigns, this one being their outrage at the existence of the Park51 Muslim Community Center in Manhattan. Fox broadcast a ‘discussion piece’ on what the centre is used for, culminating in […]