February 08, 2014 12:15 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star The widespread anticipation among what seems like just 27 people in the United States who follow the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations is that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will soon table a set of American positions or […]
inShAFP / JORDAN TIMES GAZA CITY — Hemmed in by Israeli and Egyptian blockades, Gaza is plagued by long and frequent power blackouts, prompting some residents to try to lighten the mood with dark humour. Gaza ensemble Tashweesh — Arabic for “interference” — has posted on YouTube a […]
Source: The Huffington Post President Hassan Rouhani of Iran surprised Tehran’s only Jewish hospital with a generous donation on Thursday, reports the New York Times. His brother personally delivered $400,00 […]
Humility and its virtues HUMBLE POSTURE: True worship comes through humility of the soul. Abu Usama Ath-Thahabi Published — Friday 7 February 2014 Humility is when a person does not see himself as being better or above other people because of frivolous reasons like social standing, […]
Makkah transport system gathers steam MAKKAH: Irfan Mohammed The prestigious Makkah Integrated Transport System is gaining momentum in the holy city as authorities gear up to initiate the SR25.5 billion project by processing tenders which are expected to be finalized soon. This is the third project […]
More than 400 men, women and children of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Southern California gathered at the Baitul Hameed Mosque on Ramona Ave. in Chino on January 26th to celebrate their […]
On Thursday, February 6, representatives of the Pakistani government and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) met in the Pakistani capital Islamabad to discuss a road map aimed at ending a decade-long violent insurgency in the country. In a joint statement issued after the talks, the two sides agreed on […]
Fri Feb 7, 2014 6:10PM Clashes have erupted between Palestinian worshippers and Israeli soldiers at the al-Aqsa Mosque in the West Bank city of East al-Quds (Jerusalem). The clashes broke […]
swissinfo.ch and agencies February 7, 2014 – 09:07 Hayek’s comments came in response to a letter from New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who administers the state’s $161 billion (CHF145 […]
By Alexander Jung DPA Inflation in action: This photo shows a German mark note from 1923 with a printed value of 20 million. During hyperinflation, it was stamped to become 2 billion marks. The current debt crisis in Europe evokes painful memories of the German hyperinflation. Price increases began with […]
As previously reported on Short News , in a Hamburg apartment building in a devastating fire a 33 -year-old Pakistani woman , and her two sons, aged six and […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) After a chilly month for job growth in December, hiring warmed up a bit in January. But not by much. The U.S. economy added 113,000 jobs last month, according to the government. That’s an improvement from December, but was far weaker than hoped. Economists had been expecting […]
Courtesy: Shahid Parvez, Bangalore “Clothes to the Needy” Drive in Karnataka: A Joint Effort by Dubai and Bangalore !!! Inspired from the reports of cloth distribution programs conducted earlier in the year 2013 by MKA South Karnataka, friends from Dubai conducted a massive cloth collection drive in which they have collected […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Representatives take part in Program of Peace organized by Sant Nirankari Mission at Bangalore Courtesy: Shahid Parvez, Bangalore Representatives of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Bangalore took part in the […]
Epigraph: He (Allah) it is Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad), with guidance and the Religion of truth, that He may make it prevail over all other religions. And sufficient is Allah as a Witness. (Al Quran 48:29) For links for live transmission click here Lead post collected by Salma Javid Khan, Editor of the Muslim Times for […]
By Pallab Ghosh: Science correspondent, BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/worldwide/player.swf Dr Nick Ashton shows Pallab Ghosh where the footprints were found Related Stories Earliest stone tools to go on show Remains are ‘earliest Europeans’ […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rabbi Evan Moffic: Congregation Solel Rabbi and Writer The great debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye attracted huge attention. It also presented a false dichotomy. By […]
Huff Post — Researchers Lidar Sapir-Hen and Erez Ben-Yosef from Tel Aviv University have discovered what may be a discrepancy in the history laid out in the Bible. Using carbon-dating to determine the age of the oldest-known camel bones, the researchers determined that camels were first introduced to Israel around the 9th century […]