Why are Indian women wearing cow masks?
Source: BBC News By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi Image copyrightSUJATRO GHOSH A photography project which shows women wearing a cow mask and asks the politically explosive question – whether […]
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111 terminally ill patients took their own lives in first 6 months of California right-to-die law
Source: Los Angeles Times By Soumya Karlamangla Contact Reporter A total of 111 people in California took their own lives using lethal prescriptions during the first six months of a law […]
Lawyers prepare to defend travelers to US at airports
Source: Associated Press By COLLEEN LONG and AMY TAXIN NEW YORK (AP) — When the Trump administration’s travel ban takes partial effect this week, immigrant-rights lawyers plan to head to […]
Man destroys new Ten Commandments statue at Arkansas Capitol
Source: Yahoo News Jill Bleed and Andrew Demillo, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man yelled “Freedom!” as he crashed his vehicle into Arkansas’ new Ten Commandments monument early Wednesday, nearly three years after he was arrested in the destruction of Oklahoma’s monument at its state Capitol, authorities […]
Forget Words, a Lot of Millennials Say GIFs and Emojis Communicate Their Thoughts Better Than English
Source: Time BY Katy Steinmetz Jun 27, 2017 Visuals like emojis and GIFs can make up for the useful cues that are often missing from digital chit-chatting: the raise of an eyebrow, the shrug […]
The career ladder is dead But the career ‘web’ may be far more daunting
Source: BBC News By Alina Dizik When Nina Cheng graduated from university less than a decade ago, she didn’t think she’d be selling fox fur iPhone cases for upwards of […]
Sarah Palin sues New York Times
Source: CNN By Dylan Byers The former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate filed a lawsuit against the Times on Tuesday alleging that a recent editorial falsely portrayed her as […]
Inside French Prisons, A Struggle To Combat Radicalization
Source: NPR By ELEANOR BEARDSLEY With 2,500 inmates, the penitentiary institution of Fresnes, about 20 miles south of Paris, is one of the largest prisons in Europe. Like most French prisons, […]
50 Years After War, East Jerusalem Palestinians Confront a Life Divided
Source: The New York Times By ISABEL KERSHNER Photo The Dome of the Rock at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City.CreditUriel Sinai for The New York Times JERUSALEM […]
Vatican concerns over bishop detained in China
Source: BBC News The Vatican has expressed “grave concerns” for one of its bishops who was detained after being “forcibly removed” from his diocese in China. Chinese Catholic bishop Peter […]
A Battle Over Prayer in Schools Tests Canada’s Multiculturalism
Source: The New York Times By DAN LEVIN JUNE 25, 2017 Photo An elder demonstrated the call to prayer at a mosque in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.CreditIan Willms for The New York […]
Church and states braced for biggest battle on euthanasia
Source: The Guardian by Gay Alcorn and Melissa Davey The American state of Oregon has allowed doctors to prescribe lethal drugs for terminally ill patients for almost 20 years, and […]
Australia: The number of people who identified as secular (30%) eclipsed the number of any particular religion
Christianity on the wane in Australia, but Pentecostal church bucks trend Source: The Guardian By Elle Hunt As the number of Australians who identify as Christian has declined since 2011, […]
Ultra-Orthodox lawmaker: Reform Jews don’t believe in Temple
Source: Associated Press By ARON HELLER JERUSALEM (AP) — A senior ultra-Orthodox Israeli lawmaker on Tuesday dismissed the protestations of liberal Jews over alternative access to Jerusalem’s Western Wall as […]
Judge rejects lawsuit targeting kosher slaughter of chickens in Jewish ritual in Irvine
Source: The Orange County Register By SEAN EMERY A Superior Court judge has rejected a lawsuit aimed at halting the slaughter of chickens in Orange County during a Jewish holiday […]
U.S. judge halts deportation of Iraqis nationwide
Source: Reuters By Steve Friess | DETROIT A federal judge halted late on Monday the deportation of all Iraqi nationals detained during immigration sweeps across the United States this month […]
The Surprising Benefit of Eating Fish
Source: Time By Amanda MacMillan Jun 21, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Ordering off the seafood menu may help ease the aches and pains of rheumatoid arthritis […]
Image of the United States has plunged under Trump, survey shows
Source: Yahoo News By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) – The image of the United States has deteriorated sharply across the globe under President Donald Trump and an overwhelming majority of […]
India is becoming a Hindu Pakistan
Source: The Indian Express Written by Nirupama Subramanian | Updated: June 27, 2017 12:31 am Junaid Khan’s brother Shaqir, who was stabbed five times, at AIIMS It was the day […]
Trump causes ‘major’ shift in global view of US: Pew
Source: BBC News Donald Trump’s presidency has had a “major impact on how the world sees the United States”, a large new study says. The survey, by the Pew Research […]