The barber who’s been cutting hair for 96 years
Source: BBC News By Bernadette Young Anthony Mancinelli sits in a salon chair in New Windsor, New York, waiting for his next customer. Aged 107, Mancinelli is used to the […]
Source: BBC News By Bernadette Young Anthony Mancinelli sits in a salon chair in New Windsor, New York, waiting for his next customer. Aged 107, Mancinelli is used to the […]
Source: BBC News By Amanda Ruggeri 3 October 2017 Millennials may be the world’s most hated generation – at the moment. But is disdain towards youth a new dynamic? By […]
theguardian: by Katherine Whitehorn — Feeling isolated is not only soul destryong, it’s also a risk factor for early death ‘We must help local authorities realise that being lonely is not normal or necessary’: Katharine Whitehorn. Photograph: Caro/Alamy Macbeth may have spoken of “that which should accompany old age/ As […]
ScienceDaily — Want to lose abdominal fat, get smarter and live longer? New research that periodically adopting a diet that mimics the effects of fasting may yield a wide range of health benefits. Want to lose abdominal fat, get smarter and live longer? New research led by USC’s Valter Longo […]
The Washington Post: by Abby Phillip — Anna Stoehr, 114, uses her iPad at her retirement home in Plainview, Minn. Stoehr made headlines for needing to lie about her age to set up an account on Facebook. Anna Stoehr was 113 years young when she decided it was time for […]
BBC.com — Norway is the best place to grow old, according to an index of the quality of later life in 96 countries. HelpAge International’s Global AgeWatch Index measures the social and economic welfare of those over 60. Published on the UN International Day of Older Persons, it ranks Australia, […]
The Telegraph: by Sarah Knapton — The brains of older people only appear to slow down because they have so much information to compute, much like a full-up hard drive, scientists believe. Older people do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because they […]
Time: by Alice Park — What makes cells age? Wear and tear, yes. But biologically, says, Dr. David Sinclair, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, it’s lack of oxygen that signals cells that it’s their time to go. Without oxygen, the energy engines known as the mitochondria become less […]
theguardian: by Patrick Butler – Jeremy Hunt will today tell British families they should follow the example of people in Asia, by taking in elderly relatives once they can no longer live alone. It is important not to settle for “good enough care”, Hunt will say. Society has to rise to […]
Source: Dawn.Com IT is said that Hazrat Aisha was six years old when her nikah was performed with Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Makkah, and nine years old when she moved in to live with her husband in Madina after Hijra. This piece of misinformation has led to the wrong view […]
This article originally appeared on AlterNet. With a new Pope at the helm, the Catholic hierarchy has set about to polish its tarnished image. Can an increased focus on the poor make up for the Church’s opposition to contraception and marriage equality or its sordid financial and sexual affairs? The Bishops can only […]
The Independent: Atheists Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris face Islamophobia backlash Dawkins surprised his fans and critics when he admitted he had not read the Koran JEROME TAYLOR […]
Bhagat Singh’s sacrifice It’s time to remember his ideals by Kuldip Nayar Even Mahatma Gandhi had a tendency to mix religion with popular movements. True, it aroused wide response but in the process it also sowed narrow religious feelings in the minds of people and destroyed the secular ethos of […]
Editor’s Note: Yusef Lateef is our Ahmadiyya Muslim brother- An American Jazz player- Great music to listen to. Yusef Lateef – I Need You Published on Jan 2, 2013 Contemplation (1960) Standard YouTube License http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4wU6mzvflI […]
Indian Express: The Turk who shot pope John Paul II in St Peter’s Square in 1981, claimed in a new book Friday that the founder of the Iranian revolution, the […]
(AFP) – Turkey launched Thursday a tender to build in Istanbul what aims to be the world’s largest airport at an estimated cost of over 7 billion euros ($9.3 bn), […]
The NEWS: ISLAMABAD: As a retired Major of the Pakistan Army has accused the incumbent khaki leadership of following in the footsteps of General (R) Pervez Musharraf, who had literally launched a campaign against beards in the armed forces, military circles say the forced retirement of Major Zaheeruddin was an […]
Russian TV: The Russian Communist party (KPRF) blames the media for bringing the society to moral and spiritual decline and urges the government to introduce tougher censorship and preserve the […]
Publications and Record – UK Parliament: As we have heard in today’s debate, hundreds of millions of people of all religions and none find themselves facing daily threats of violence […]
Editor’s note: In his recent address to European Parliament on 4th of December 2012, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifa of Islam clearly stated ” “The formation of the European Union […]