Guardian: Germany is the most forward thinking country in the world according to the Future Orientation Index 2012 created by academics from University College London (UCL) and Warwick University, who analysed more […]
Source: Ahmadiyya Press Desk London. Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says that Annual Convention is going ahead despite attack The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, has strongly condemned an attack perpetrated by thousands of extremists Muslims against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in […]
Swiss chocolate makers were left with a bittersweet taste in their mouths last year as a strong Swiss franc melted away the appetite for their products, the top industry body […]
Epigraph: Say to the believing men that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts. That is purer for them. … And say to the believing women that they restrain their […]
Opposing Views: Alex Carpenter. Islam has been a significant presence in Kosovo since the 1300s. Once a part of the Roman empire, the Ottoman empire, greater Yugoslavia and now a small, independent republic in the heart of the Balkans, Kosovo has for centuries been both a seat of Islamic learning […]
STORY SUMMARY The chief of the Netherlands’ top intelligence agency is warning that dozens of Dutch citizens are fighting with rebels in Syria and could return home battle-hardened, traumatized and even further radicalized. Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Feb-08/205629-spy-chief-dutch-citizens-are-fighting-in-syria.ashx#ixzz2KP53NiMR (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)
Dawn: KABUL: The US-led international coalition on Friday rejected a UN rights group’s concern about reports that US military strikes have killed hundreds of children in Afghanistan during the past […]
Source: The Economist. EVEN the French say so: David Cameron played a near-perfect match. “He is a real negotiator; very, very tenacious,” declared a senior French official amid the brutal bargaining over the EU’s seven-yearly budget that dragged on for a whole night and a day. When it was all […]
France24. By Tony Todd (text) Some 30 French Imams on February 4 visited the Holocaust Memorial at Drancy near Paris in an effort to improve Islam’s image to a sceptical French public. The visit was unprecedented and comes at a time of high tensions towards the country’s large Muslim community. An IPSOS […]
Source: The Local. French workers are more honest taxpayers than their German counterparts, according to a new study. More:
“Being Muslim keeps me from wanting to impress others and gives me more personal confidence” “I felt Chantelle had more freedom than I did by covering herself, instead of letting […]
Louvre Museum in Paris that recently added a wing about Muslims Source: WorldMag.com By Angela Lu Islam has been growing in European countries—especially the urban areas of France, the U.K., and Spain—through […]
Swissinfo.ch: An emergency shelter especially for European migrants is being reopened this weekend to accommodate people who would otherwise be forced to sleep rough. EU citizens from states in crisis […]
Aljazeera: People and Power: by Simon Ostrovsky and Veronika Dorman: Less than three decades ago, it would have been unthinkable for a Russian premier to have exchanged public expressions of solidarity and […]
February 07, 2013 Coursera is currently the most advanced platform for the latest studying trend, MOOCs – or Massive Open Online Courses. It was created to unite the world’s most […]
The UK attracts more immigrants than any other country in the European Union, new figures have shown. In 2010, the latest year for which the data is available, 591,000 people […]
Ministers will no longer have the power to decide appeals in extradition cases, under plans unveiled by Theresa May. The home secretary is seeking to change the law so that judges decide whether appeals on human rights grounds should be approved. Judges’ decisions on whether to extradite a suspect or […]
Swiss foreign trade registered a new record surplus of SFr24.4 billion ($26.8 billion) for 2012 despite the gloomy global economy and strong franc, relying largely just on the watchmaking, chemical […]
French officials conceded on Wednesday that it was at the outset of a “real war” in Mali that would involve tough fighting to weed out al-Qaeda and its allies in […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories fell for the childish hoax of the Cottingley Fairies. I am borrowing the details of […]