Nearly half of Australia’s most disadvantaged young women aren’t involved in work or study after leaving school, despite overall rising educational achievements among girls, a government report has found. The Council of Australian Governments (Coag) Reform Council report, which studied outcomes for women and girls in Australia in the past […]
Daily Times — Zafrullah Khan’s contributions to Pakistan — especially as its advocate before the Boundary Commission — were praised by Jinnah himself Before I come to the main gist of what I have to say this week, let me bring to the attention of the reader my articles “Safdar […]
JAPAN — An international inter-religious conference attended by 87 participants, including Buddhists and Christians from Asia, Europe and North America, has pledged on 7 December “to work to abolish nuclear power, to heal the living communities affected by it, and to restore creation as fully as possible.” The pledge […]
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The Telegragh: by Chris Irvine, Hannah Strange — Although evacuations did take place many people stayed in their homes as they perhaps did not understand the threat posed by Haiyan, especially the storm surge. Preparedness is key and better education as to the nature of a major typhoon’s likely impact […]
Almost 600 works of art discovered in Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt may have been stolen by Nazis. Bowing to demands from Jewish groups and art experts, the German government has made public the details of paintings in a recovered trove of about 1,400 pieces of art, many […]
Mother said to be “in a maelstrom of fatigue and mental disorder” caused by postnatal depression. A mother who admitted killing her baby daughter while she was ”in a maelstrom of fatigue and mental disorder” caused by postnatal depression has been spared jail. Natasha Sultan, 21, sobbed as she was […]
Peter Higgs, the father of the ‘God Particle’ theory, has claimed that the Nobel committee overlooked a second British scientist when awarding him its physics prize last month. Prof Higgs shared the award with Francois Englert, a Belgian scientist, for their independent work which led to the discovery of the […]
The NewYork Times: by Dennis M . Sabangan MANILA — The powerful typhoon that swept across the Philippines on Friday, one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall, cut a path of destruction through several central islands, leaving the seaside city of Tacloban in ruins and leading to early, […]
ISTANBUL, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) — Turkish university students staged protests against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recently- revealed intention to eliminate mixed-sex accommodation in state- run dormitories. “This is a violation of privacy. As a student I definitely do not assent what he said,” a first-year student at Bahcesehir University […]
The Express Tribune: by Fahd Husain — A cruel ambience floats within this delusional world. This ambience encourages us to embrace those who kill us and kill those who embrace us; it prods us to love those who hate us, and hate those who love us. Like zombies, we shuffle […]
The Express Tribune — Preliminary evidence indicates that the poliovirus that has reportedly affected ten children in Syria is of Pakistani origin, a joint press statement issued by Unicef and World Health Organisation (WHO) claims. The statement says this is the first polio outbreak in the restive country since 1999, […]
The NewYork Times: by Jennifer Schuessler — The Syllable Everyone Recognizes Are there words that are universally understood, across all countries and cultures? A team of linguists has proposed one: “huh.” Huh? In a paper published on Friday in the journal PLOS One, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for […]
BBCNews: by Jon Donnison – In the typhoon’s path were areas already struggling to recover from a deadly 7.3-magnitude earthquake last month, including the worst-hit island of Bohol where about 5,000 people are still living in tents. The UK’s ambassador to the Philippines, Asif Ahmad, announced on Saturday that a […]
CGAhmadiyya — A VERY YOUNG BOY WROTE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE, BASED ON AN URDU VIDEO OF MUBASHAR AHMAD KHALON SAHIB. WE ARE DELIGHTED WITH THE QUALITY OF THE ARTICLE WRITTEN BY ONE SO YOUNG BY THE GRACE OF ALLAH. Introduction Ahmadi’s believe Muhammad (saw) is the Khatamun Nabiyeen.We also believe […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embedwww&videoId=weather/2013/11/07/super-typhoon-haiyan-philippines-stevens-sater.cnn&contentId=weather/2013/11/07/super-typhoon-haiyan-philippines-stevens-sater.cnn Source of post below Huffington Post: From Climate Central’s Andrew Freedman: Super Typhoon Haiyan — which is one of the strongest storms in world history based on maximum windspeed — is about to plow through the Central Philippines, producing a potentially deadly storm surge and dumping heavy rainfall that could […]
FP: by David Kenner — The Kingdom is turning to Pakistan to train Syria’s rebels. It’s a partnership that once went very wrong in Afghanistan. Will history repeat itself? BEIRUT — Saudi Arabia, having largely abandoned hope that the United States will spearhead international efforts to topple the Assad regime, […]
PRNewswire — LONDON, November 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — More than ten thousand Ahmadi Muslims will this week stand united with the country in remembering the brave members of the Armed Forces who sacrificed their lives for Great Britain. Thousands of worshippers will congregate at Mosques across the country, including the UK’s largest Mosque […]
Collosal — This Programmable 6,000-Part Drawing Boy Automata is Arguably the First Computer and It Was Built 240 Years Ago Designed in the late 1770s this incredible little robot called simply The Writer, was designed and built by Swiss-born watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz with help from his son Henri-Louis, and Jean-Frédéric Leschot. Jaquet-Droz was […]
CNN: by Nick Paton Walsh, Raja Razek, Gul Tuysuz – Gaziantep, Turkey (CNN) — Raqqa was, a matter of months ago, one of Syria’s most liberal cities. Now locals call it Tora Bora. They say it’s as if the Taliban of Afghanistan have taken over. After months of bombardment by the […]