A quarter of Germany is obese: experts
Source: The Local: Two thirds of German men and half of German women are overweight, a new study from a health institute revealed on Wednesday. More:
Britain’s Cameron warns Spanish PM over Gibraltar spat
Source: TOI LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday warned his Spanish counterpart that the escalating tit-for-tat over border tensions in Gibraltar risked damaging relations between their countries. Cameron and Mariano Rajoy discussed ways to calm the situation in a call Britain described as “constructive” after the row had […]
Macedonia Press Review – August 5, 2013
Source: Balkan Insight by Wasim Sr: The last remaining ethnic Macedonian in the country will die in 2466, a simple calculation shows if the downward trend continues, the daily says. Recently the daily published a statistic according to which last year there were 2,938 ethnic Macedonians less than the year […]
Turkey Ergenekon case: Ex-army chief Basbug gets life
Source: BBC Turkey’s former armed forces chief has been jailed for life for plotting to overthrow the government, after five years of trials involving officers, lawyers, writers and journalists. Gen […]
Piece Of Jesus’ Cross Found? Archaeologists Discover ‘Holy Thing’ In Balatlar Church In Turkey
Huff Post; Archaeologists working in Turkey believe they have found a piece of the cross that Jesus was crucified on. While excavating the ancient Balatlar Church, a seventh-century building in Sinop, […]
Reflections on Ramadan by Ahmadiyya members of Huddersfield, UK
Source: examiner.co.uk Worshippers are marking the final days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which draws to an end on Wednesday. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association have been reflecting […]
The right kind of happy
Source: The Economist THE Greek founders of philosophy constantly debated how best to live the good life. Some contended that personal pleasure is the key. Others pointed out that serving society and finding purpose is vital. Socrates was in the latter camp, fiercely arguing that an unvirtuous person could not be […]
Most Religious Countries And Most Atheist Countries
Which countries are the most and least religious? The WIN-Gallup International “Religion and Atheism Index” collected data from 57 countries in order to find out. The Religiosity Index represents the percentage of […]
Our man in Moscow
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar So what is the “extremely disappointed” Obama administration, the Orwellian/Panopticon complex and the discredited US Congress to do? Send a Navy Seal Team 6 to snatch him or to target assassinate him – turning Moscow into Abbottabad 2.0? Drone him? Poison his borscht? Shower […]
What is the world’s favorite holiday destination?
Source: BBC By Ben Carter For many people the holiday season has arrived. Where do those travelling abroad go? UN figures suggest that France had more foreign visitors than any […]
Does Moscow Need Separation of Church and State, for its Four Million Muslims?
The title has been modified by the Muslim Times, the original title was: Underground Islam Source: Slate.com By Simon Shuster|Posted Friday, Aug. 2, 2013, at 5:28 AM MOSCOW—Because the Islamic calendar is […]
Turkish man takes pain out of praying
Source: The Local: A Turkish man living in Germany has invented a Muslim prayer mat that takes the strain off the knees which, he said Friday, he hoped to now sell worldwide. More:
Berlin axes Cold War-era spying accords with US
Source: The Local: Germany has cancelled surveillance accords dating from the late 1960s with the United States and Britain in the wake of revelations about vast US online spying. More:
War and revolution stimulate creative minds
August 03, 2013 Childhood memories of wartime Lebanon and street scenes from revolutionary Cairo: Lena Merhej and Mohamed Shennawy embody a trend in contemporary Arab graphic novels that draws its inspiration from real-life events. Aged 35, Merhej has a German and Lebanese background and works as a graphic designer and […]
The Big Debate: Islam or Atheism – Which Makes More Sense? Lawrence Krauss & Hamza Tzortzis
The proponent for Islam, Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, made a precise and lucid presentation. The debate and interaction gets better in the second half of the event. In the first half of the […]
Anti-Muslim violence: A wakeup call for European governments
loonwatch: BY MARWAN MUHAMMAD, ELSA RAY AND MICHAËL PRIVOT BRUSSELS – A police check of a Muslim woman wearing the full-face veil recently sparked riots in a Paris suburb, and […]
Robert Fisk: Baroness Ashton’s low-key approach gets her all the way to Mohamed Morsi’s secret location The 2011 Revolution showed how mature Egyptians were, even after dictatorships
What is Catherine Ashton for? She couldn’t even tell us what Mohamed Morsi said to her. Or even if she called him “President Morsi” or “Mr Morsi”. Or maybe just “Sir”. And why, by the way, is she called a “High” Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security […]
Cause of irregular migration!
Source: The Times: Thursday, August 1, 2013, 00:01 by Laiq Ahmed Atif Homeopathy is a system of medicine that works according to the specific symptoms of a patient. A homeopath prescribes the […]
How the Queen would have announced World War III
Global Post: The script of a 1983 speech aides drafted for Queen Elizabeth II to deliver if World War III broke out has been released among other declassified files from […]
Pope Francis Not as Liberal as He Seems
Source: The Spiegel: Pope Francis has sparked enthusiasm with his call for greater tolerance toward gays. But it’s too soon to celebrate, says theologian David Berger. The pope’s warning not to engage in gay propaganda puts him on par with homophobes like Russian President Vladimir Putin, he contends. More: