A Retired Asst Professor of Pediatrics currently working in Canada.
Source: Science Daily A new University of Colorado Boulder study shows that a small amount of physical exercise could profoundly protect the elderly from long-term memory loss that can happen suddenly following infection, illnesses or injury in old age. In the study, CU-Boulder Research Associate Ruth Barrientos and her colleagues […]
Source: USA Today Skip the hot dogs, hold the bacon and forget the sausage. Eating processed meats and red meat regularly increases your risk of type 2 diabetes, a large new study shows. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Healthanalyzed dietary-intake data from more than 200,000 men and women in […]
Source: The Huffington Post Ramadan is upon us — a time of fasting, charity, prayer … and fighting off Islamophobia. Norweigian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik killed 76 innocent people in a demented campaign to destroy Islam. Comedian Bill Maher recently called the Quran a “hate-filled holy book.” Evangelical atheist Sam […]
Source: New York Times MADERA, Calif. — Every Sunday, Juan Enriquez, a former farmworker from Mexico, shows off his culinary art, sculpturing sweet white meat from young coconuts with a […]
Source: Huffington Post RNS) After a car bomb detonated on Wall Street one minute past the noon lunch hour killing 38 people, federal investigators came up with a possible link to an overseas group. Islamic terrorists? Al Qaeda? No, Italian anarchists. The year was 1920, and in those days anarchists […]
Source: The Washington Post On the sweltering August streets of metropolitan Washington, sandals, short skirts and halter tops are seemingly de rigueur. Bare-legged women in the summer’s latest chiffon miniskirts crowd the Metro platform during rush hour. Yet not all women in the area are baring their arms and legs […]
Source: Almasry Alyoum Sitting in what appears to be a busy city square and speaking above a cacophony of car horns, Christine and Nancy Fathy explain to the camera why they have run away from their families. “I left my parents and came to Cairo to understand more about the true religion,” […]
Source: New York Times SANTIAGO, Chile — For Ana María Silva, what began as purchases of perfume and two pairs of shoes spiraled into a credit card nightmare, as her debt multiplied tenfold in five years — and not all because of her spending. Ms. Silva was among 418,000 clients […]
In an effort to combat malaria, researchers at Imperial College London hope to take advantage of the female mosquito’s plight–and reduce the mosquito population–by engineering spermless males. They say the key is that the females don’t seem able to tell the difference; they still mate with the sterile males and […]
Courtesy / Source: AlterNet / By Medea Benjamin The Congressional recess is a time for elected representatives to be home in their districts, reaching out to their constituents. So why are one in five taking a junket to Israel? In this time of economic austerity, when jobs are being slashed and […]
There is no doubt about the importance of the UN recognising Palestine as a state, and more importantly its acceptance as a full member state. If such recognition is given in September, it will confirm the importance of activating the option of international legitimacy. However, we should not get too […]
MANADO, Indonesia (Xinhua) – The 43rd ASEAN Economic Ministers and Related Meetings opened here on Wednesday afternoon, involving ministers in charge of economic, commerce, trade and investment in ASEAN member states and dialogue partners. Representatives are about to continue their work on building the time-bound ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by […]
Metro News The military in Israel issued a call for battlefield rabbis in what is described as a campaign to promote religious values in frontline ranks. The move was announced in “Bamahane,” the military’s official weekly magazine. Read more
Once the preserve of hard-line preachers, hatred toward Muslim sect now appears to be spreading among pockets of ordinary Indonesians CIKEUSIK, Indonesia — When Dani bin Misra was released from prison last week after serving just three months for smashing in the skull of a member of a Muslim sect, […]
Immigrants of Chinese descendant played a major role in converting the people to Islam. VIVAnews – History has it that the early wave of Chinese Muslims migration into Indonesia was not intended to spread the teachings of Islam. Welfare was the main reason they came into the archipelago. The voyage […]
Source: The Economist A RITUAL familiar to students of the subprime and euro crises has started taking place on Indian banks’ conference calls with analysts and investors. The number-crunchers probe the lenders about their exposures to potential bad debts. Bank bosses insist that, although there are niggles, all is under […]
Kevin Goudreau’s blue golf shirt is buttoned to the collar. Were it not, heads would surely be turning, because there is a large tattoo of a swastika on his chest. He keeps it under wraps during a recent interview, but it is on the Internet for all to see, along […]
Adding insult to injury, prosecutors at the Serang District Court on Tuesday recommended nine months in jail for an Ahmadi man critically injured in the deadly attack on members of the community in Cikeusik, Banten. Last week, the court handed down sentences of only between three months and six months, […]
The Serang District Court in Banten recently cleared 12 defendants of the primary charge of inciting hatred and mob violence, but found them guilty of “participation in a violent attack that results in casualties”, in the act of violence that left three Ahmadiyah followers killed in Cikeusik village last February. […]
Family of Hen Aida Ayish who was fatally injured in a car accident a week-and-a-half ago requests that her eggs be extracted and frozen after donating her organs for transplant. The Kfar Sava Family Court ruled on Sunday that the family of a recently deceased 17-year-old may extract her eggs […]