Credit: Bloomberg Bussinesweek News via Wasim. PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors opened a murder inquiry into the death of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday, his widow’s lawyer said, after she and a TV investigation raised new questions about whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned. Many in the Arab world have long […]
by Omar Oaks, Chief Reporter, GUARDIAN.co.uk The council has bought back a school building in Colliers Wood – which was sold a decade ago – to enable a primary school […]
By Dominic Hughes: Health correspondent, BBC News Young people who smoke cannabis for years run the risk of a significant and irreversible reduction in their IQ, research suggests. The findings come from a study of around 1,000 people in New Zealand. An international team found those who started using cannabis […]
Russian TV: Sardinian miners armed with hundreds of pounds of explosives have barricaded themselves over 1300ft (400m) underground in Italy’s only coalmine, presumably threatening to blow themselves up unless the […]
by Amatullah http://muslimmatters.org/2012/08/27/how-university-made-me-a-better-muslim/ It was 2010 and I had just returned from my studies in Cairo. I was in a “Muslim bubble,” having just come from a place where I heard the adhān every day and I was just another covered woman walking in the streets. Coming back home was […]
(Reuters) – Chief Abbess Manchen Shih gazed through a first-floor window of her vast wood and concrete temple as shaven-headed nuns in mustard robes prepared for midday prayers, cooking rice […]
KAZAN, Russia — A string of violent attacks by Islamic militants has shattered this city’s reputation as a citadel of religious tolerance and unnerved federal officials in Moscow, who have […]
A female zookeeper dies in hospital of her wounds after being mauled by an escaped tiger in Germany. A tiger has been shot dead after killing a female zookeeper in […]
by Daniele Mariani, swissinfo.ch Switzerland has always been the crossroads of Europe and today there are “cultural routes” commemorating the historic highways and byways through the country. It is becoming […]
Global Post: Germany has taken the biggest strike in its history against neo-Nazis. More than 900 police officers raided about 150 properties where members of the neo-Nazi groups live.The raids […]
SOURCE: SPIEGEL.DE He extols the virtues of poverty and humility, but the German bishop of Limburg enjoys first-class flights and a luxurious new living complex. As the truth comes out […]
Source: CNN Author: Laura Smith-Spark Anders Behring Breivik, the man who killed 77 people in a bomb attack and gun rampage just over a year ago, was judged to be […]
By Özlem Gezer SPIEGEL.DE Young Muslim men in Germany are systematically trying to recruit their peers for jihad using sophisticated rhetoric and psychology and by targeting vulnerable youths who are searching for direction in life. Two men who have quit the scene tell their story to SPIEGEL, providing a rare […]
A team of Swiss scientists has been given the go-ahead to test the exhumed body of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for traces of radioactive polonium. Poisoning by this substance […]
by Julie Zaugg in London, swissinfo.ch Faced with massive youth unemployment, Britain is the latest country to take an interest in the Swiss apprenticeship system. The “dual” model which combines […]
Source: Asia Times: As the father of one of the women jailed for a “blasphemous” anti-Putin protest in Moscow’s main cathedral noted, there were two Russias present in the courtroom – the liberals and the traditionalists – and they hated each other’s guts. Yet while most Russians consider themselves non-religious, […]
Source: Malta Today The President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta Laiq Ahmed Atif distributed fruit hampers to families and single women living at Hal Far Refugee Camp as part […]
Credit: Mittelbayerische: Although a mosque does not necessarily need minarets, but, then a church does not need steeple, stressed Oechslen. Churches, mosques and Buddhist temples “are part of religious pluralism” […]
22/08/2012 By Lambeth Palace media release The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has sent his annual greetings to Muslim communities for the festival of Eid Al-Fitr on Sunday 19 […]
Charlotte DandoInterfaith Activist based in the UK HUFFINGTON POST My apartment is located in between three of the area’s most frequented bars. At 3 a.m. on a Sunday, I can hear the remainder of Saturday night’s revelers as they pass my window; singing, chatting and shouting under the street lights. […]