Source: TOI on line. On a big news week like the last one – US out of Iraq, Britain out of Europe, Europe out of money – one could be forgiven for missing the fact that scientists may just have discovered the secret of what allows the universe to exist. […]
Source^: NY Times: By the time he was 16, Newt Gingrich was sure of two things. He would marry his high school geometry teacher. And he would save Western civilization. Gingrich has moved on to younger wives. But he’s still obsessed with numbers and rescuing the planet. In 1994, he […]
Source: Geo TV CHINIOT: Brilliant young girl Sitara Akbar, who is only 11 years old and a resident of Chiniot, set a world record by passing O-level English, Mathmatics and […]
Source / Courtesy: NY Times SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jesse Roe, a ninth-grade math teacher at a charter school here called Summit, has a peephole into the brains of each […]
By GALAL FAKKAR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Women account for a third of the 47,000 Saudi students on the King Abdullah foreign scholarship program in the United States, according to […]
Source: Newyorktimes It’s pretty easy to conclude that the world is spinning down the toilet. So let me be contrary and offer a reason to be grateful this Thanksgiving. Despite the gloomy mood, the historical backdrop is stunning progress in human decency over recent centuries. War is declining, and humanity […]
Source: Daily Times ByTammy Swofford: “May 28, 2010: The Ahmedi community was gathered for Friday prayers. Gunmen entered their mosques in Model Town and Garhi Shahu. Weapons were fired and grenades tossed at the worshippers. When it was over, all that remained was for the mourners to claim their dead. […]
by Islah Bakhat in Fribourg, swissinfo.ch The narrow display hall of the Bible+Orient Museum is rich in treasures, some 15,000 unique pieces from the ancient Near East, valued at SFr8 million ($8.9 million). Often overlooked, the museum serves to recall the common roots between the three monotheistic religions and to […]
By Khetam Malkawi AMMAN – Higher education experts from Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states have recommended that their countries revise their strategies to give universities more independence. They also called for revising subjects taught in university to align the output of higher education institutions with labour market demands. […]
Editor’s Note: Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. For more from Sachs, visit Project Syndicate or follow it on Facebook and Twitter. By Jeffrey D. Sachs, […]
Source: Times of India Horror movies are good for mental health (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images) Scared of watching horror flicks? Well, its bad news for the ladies who are wary of watching such movies. Excuses for not watching the movies will not work anymore. Studies have shown that horror movies can […]
By Rand Dalgamouni AMMAN – Having passed her Tawjihi (General Secondary Education Certificate) exam with a high average, Rawan Al Najjar was happy to know that her grades qualified her to study nursing at university. When the university admission results were announced in September, Najjar received the good news that […]
JORDAN TIMES AMMAN (Petra) – Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilus III on Saturday laid the foundation stone of a community centre and a Roman Orthodox school in Wahdana village in Ajloun. During a visit to the governorate, the patriarch reiterated the need to enhance the concepts of tolerance, harmony, […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has approved the establishment of the King Abdul Aziz Chair for the Holy Qur’an at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah and the Islamic University in Madinah. […]
By SELMA ROTH | ARAB NEWS Published: Oct 11, 2011 22:23 Updated: Oct 11, 2011 22:35 Spain is closely connected to the Islamic world. Not only does Spain enjoy good diplomatic relations with a big number of Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia, but it also has the intrinsic presence of […]
Source Wasim Sroya of Bosnia and Friday Times Pakistan’s first foreign minister and Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s key aide Sir Zafarullah Khan (1893-1985) became the president of the United Nations General Assembly in 1962. Complete Story:
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweeden A part of the city caught fire or, more probably, was set on fire and under cover of the fire, a mob started targeting a religious minority killing a few big names of the community. Terrified of impending death at the hands of the baying […]
Source: Wasim Saroya, Ahmadiyya Missionary Bosnia, Selwenia The history behind Jinnah’s return to Indian politics in 1934 makes for an inconvenient truth. The man whose eloquent persuasion left Jinnah no escape in returning to politics, has been forgotten in the annals of official Pakistani history. That man was not Liaqat […]
Source: TOI on Line Having swept aside autocratic regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, broken Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s hold over Libya and increasingly heaped pressure on the incumbent regimes in Yemen and Syria, the pro-democracy revolution of the Arab Spring has marked a political watershed in the Arab world. No longer […]
Source. Times of India LONDON: There is now a fresh name at the top, unseating long-time leader Harvard. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) knocked the famous Massachusetts institution from the summit of the Times Higher Education league table for the first time in eight years, with US schools claiming 75 […]