MINNEAPOLIS — Narayana R. Kocherlakota, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, was once a leading opponent of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to stimulate the economy. Today, he has emerged as the only senior official arguing publicly that the Fed should do even more. The Fed’s leadership, including Janet […]
Source: TOI DUBAI: Aiming to highlight the ‘miracles’ of the Quran, Dubai authorities are building a theme park that will have 51 of the total 54 plants cited in the holy book.The 158-acre holy Quran park, which is expected to be completed by September next year, is in the third and […]
by Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT Saddam is Dead! Long live Saddam! And glancing through the grisly list of executions which the new, free, democratic, American-constructed Iraq has carried out – […]
Source: BreakingNews.ie The Constitutional Convention has published its report calling for the offence of blasphemy to be removed. It recommends that blasphemy is replaced by a new general ban on […]
Source: TOI LONDON: The British parliament has for the first time ever pulled up its revered Queen for failing to control her expenses. In what is the first such report into royal finances brought out by the Committee of Public Accounts, the British monarch Queen Elizabeth II has been openly asked to […]
The Independent: The results of a long-term study of reproductive health, published in the British Medical Journal, have revealed that one in two hundred US women claim to have given birth without ever having had sexual intercourse. The findings were based on a study of 7,870 women and girls aged […]
The Independent: The authorities in Saudi Arabia have begun dismantling some of the oldest sections of Islam’s most important mosque as part of a highly controversial multi-billion pound expansion. Photographs obtained by The Independentreveal how workers with drills and mechanical diggers have started demolishing some Ottoman and Abbasid sections on the […]