The study found that people who took a Facebook break felt happier and were less sad and lonely. Photo: Iris/Scanpix Drop Facebook and be happy: Danish study Published: 09 Nov 2015 12:48 GMT+01:00 The Copenhagen-based Happiness Research Institute has a simple formula for increasing your happiness, social activity and concentration, […]
Awakening to the Reality of War: A Journey Along the Refugee Trail By Navid Kermani Moises Saman/ Magnum/ Agentur Focus/ DER SPIEGEL Novelist Navid Kermani and photographer Moises Saman recently traveled for SPIEGEL from Budapest through the Balkans to Turkey. They tell of Europe’s treatment of immigrants who almost all […]
The Conservative MP’s tour of Israel and the West Bank was ending in controversy today as Palestinian politicians also refused meetings Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden \ Mayor of London Boris Johnson in a Palestinian cafe during a tour of the Old City of Jerusalem, 11 November 2015. EPA Boris Johnson’s tour […]
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wandsworthguardian.co.uk: Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) have joined with thousands of other young Muslims around the country to raise £400,000 on Remembrance Sunday. The fundraising came as part of the ‘Mercy 4 Mankind’ initiative, and included 130 volunteers from Wimbledon and Wandsworth selling poppies at 25 stations […]
A traveling exhibit that celebrates Muslims in Albania who saved most of the country’s Jewish citizens and refugees during the Second World War is currently in Winnipeg. Besa: A Code […]
Source: The Guardian By Yasmin Khan, who is the producer of Sindbad Sci-Fi. Follow her on Twitter @Ya5min_BL Jim Al-Khalili, physicist and Ziauddin Sardar, chair of the Muslim Institute, talk science, […]
By Alexander Smoltczyk Ahead of the planned lifting of Western sanctions against Iran, businessmen from around the world are visiting the country, and as one group from Germany discovered, there […]
IMMIGRATION QUOTAS Swiss ambivalence towards immigration approach By swissinfo.ch and agencies NOV 8, 2015 – 13:15 Swiss voters are coming to terms with their 2014 vote to reimpose curbs on immigration for foreigners like this Spanish construction worker at the UN’s European headquarters in Geneva. (Keystone) A growing number of […]
SWITCHING ON Nearly half of current jobs could be lost to machines NOV 9, 2015 – 19:12 While self-scan machines at checkouts are becoming more common, some people prefer to […]
The Asian Image: Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association were in Manchester’s Heaton Park to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. They took part in a 10k run to raise more than £400,000 for UK charities. The event is part of the ‘Mercy for Mankind’ series of […]
FIFA hopeful Prince Ali takes diplomatic path to presidential goal By AP – Nov 07,2015 – JORDAN TIMES GENEVA — In a FIFA election now more open than expected, HRH Prince Ali has changed his strategy since Michel Platini was caught up in a corruption scandal. Speaking with The Associated […]
Freedom struggle or terror? PKK creates rift between Swiss Kurds and Turks by Peter Siegenthaler, swissinfo.ch Nov 3, 2015 – 11:00 Several people were injured in clashes between Kurdish and Turkish demonstrators in Bern in September (Keystone) With around 120,000 residents of Turkish origin – about half of them Kurds – Switzerland has been […]
Source: The Independent There’s no doubt that the dark shadow of the Chilcot report has brought forward his midget apology Robert Fisk @indyvoices Sunday 25 October 201566 comments Tony Blair’s at it again. He apologises – but not for the war, only for the “intelligence”. There are “elements of truth” […]
By Jo Fahy Nov 5, 2015 The Swiss have been preparing themselves for an influx of refugees from Syria. While volunteers waited for people who weren’t going to come, twitter could have told them that Switzerland wasn’t on their radar. “Switzerland is not, and has never been actually, that much […]
Report by Atta-Ul Naseer, Imam & National President, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Greece Tel: +30 2112140522 | Fax: +30 2112140522 | Mobile: +30 6940142377 3rd Dinner with Friends Friday 30th October 2015 […]
This is an article by by, Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthal, the first British Muslim. This is taken from a group of lectures given by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthal in 1925. These were published by The Committee of Madras Lectures on Islam in 1927, under the title Cultural Side of Islam. We have […]
Epigraph: We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — it shall be as if he had killed all mankind; and whoso gave life to one, it shall be as […]
Source: Middle East Eye Nafeez Ahmed Thursday 8 October 2015 14:28 UTC The Islamic State group is little more than the proxy bastard child of a New Cold War that […]
AFP The unceasing influx of refugees is creating tremendous uncertainty in Germany. Many towns and cities are calling for help and the government appears to be rudderless. Pressure is mounting for Chancellor Angela Merkel to act. By SPIEGEL Staff The road to the reception camp in Hesepe has become something […]