Source: BBC By Caroline Parkinson Health editor, BBC News website Image copyrightTHINKSTOCK The benefits of the cholesterol-reducing drug statins are underestimated and the harms exaggerated, a major review suggests. Published […]
Source: BBC Two Americans have been arrested and charged for allegedly helping to hack high-ranking US government officials. The US Department of Justice said Andrew Otto Boggs and Justin Gray […]
Source: BBC By William Kremer BBC World Service Ground-breaking work on synthetic organ transplants made Paolo Macchiarini one of the most famous doctors in the world. But some of his […]
Source: BBC By Christian Jarrett 9 September 2016 Your personality has been sculpted by many hands. Your genes, your friends, the schools you attended, plus many other factors, will all […]
Source: BBC Samsung has urged owners of its Galaxy Note 7 phones to stop using or exchange the devices as they risk exploding. Samsung recalled 2.5 million phones last week […]
Source: BBC John Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan, has been released from a psychiatric hospital after 35 years. Mr Reagan and three others were injured in the shooting outside a hotel in Washington in March 1981. Mr Hinckley was found not guilty by […]
Source: BBC An air strike on a market in the rebel-held Syrian city of Idlib killed at least 20 people hours after the US and Russia announced plans for a truce. As many as 90 people were also injured, media and opposition activists said, when a busy vegetable market was […]
Source: The Washington Post By Joe Davidson | Columnist Jumping into the fray over civil liberties vs. religious freedom, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission issued a report Wednesday that is sure to anger conservatives with this central finding: “Religious exemptions to the protections of civil rights based upon classifications such […]
Source: Daily News World-renowned Turkish pianist Fazıl Say was acquitted of blasphemy charges on Sept. 7, four years after being sentenced to a suspended jail term after sharing a post […]
Source: Reuters By Dmitry Solovyov | OSH, KYRGYZSTAN Whoever takes over the Central Asian state of Uzbekistan after its president’s death faces a challenge to keep a lid on Islamist […]
Source: Boston Globe By Jennette Barnes One in a series of occasional articles about Muslims in our suburbs. Mary Lahaj was a high school cheerleader in 1964 when the first […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michael Alison Chandler The U.S. Education Department announced it will begin collecting data this year about allegations of discrimination or bullying of students based on […]
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) Talking about one’s faith doesn’t come naturally to a “Midwestern Methodist,” Hillary Clinton admitted. Then the Democratic presidential nominee spent a half-hour doing […]
Source: Time By Kate Samuelson The plotline on BBC’s The Archers is cited as the reason for a 17% annual increase in calls to Britain’s national domestic violence helpline A controversial […]
Source: Time By Ian Bremmer Angela Merkel and her center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) were trounced in regional elections this past weekend. It’s going to be that type of year for Merkel. Here are the 5 biggest risks that Merkel, the most important voice in any conversation about Europe’s future, faces […]
Source: Time By Justin Worland Self-driving vehicles promised to revolutionize the transportation industry. Automated cars could reshape every industry that relies on the automobile, from car manufacturing, to taxis, limousines and trucking. By taking human beings—who aren’t the drivers they think they are—out from behind the wheel, self-driving cars could also […]
Source: McClatchyDC BY HANNAH ALLAM SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF. Feeling heartsick and helpless nearly 4,000 miles away from the attacks, trauma physician Rushdi Abdul Cader spent Sept. 11, 2001, paging through his Quran in search of guidance. He feared a backlash against Muslims, though it would be a few more […]
Source: MPR News A 57-year-old man confessed to threatening to blow up a Minneapolis mosque, prosecutors said Wednesday. The office of the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota said Daniel George Fisher sent an anonymous, handwritten letter to Tawfiq Islamic Center September 30, 2015 to scare its members. The letter threatened to […]
Source: Buzzfeed News By Aisha Gani Senior News Reporter, BuzzFeed UK Nearly 2 million Muslims from around the world are gathering this weekend in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, for the annual pilgrimage. Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam, and Muslims believe it fosters universal relationships and symbolizes how […]
Source: Time By Serene Jones Rev. Dr. Serene Jones is President of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. We need a new common narrative about who we are […]