Norway killer Anders Breivik ruled sane, given 21-year prison term
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 […]
Islamist Mind Games – How Young German Men Are Lured into Jihad
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 […]
Switzerland: Lausanne researchers to examine Arafat’s body
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 […]
Beating youth unemployment: Exporting the Swiss apprenticeship model
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 […]
Two kinds of Russians …
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, […]
Muslim community in Malta donates to Hal Far Refugee Camp
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 […]
Germany builds Ahmadiyya mosques with Minarets while Pakistan Demolishes Them
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” […]
Archbishop of Canterbury sends annual greeting to Muslims
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 […]
I’m Not a Muslim, but Ramadan Changed Me
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. […]
French try to keep their cool as temperatures soar
France 24: It was the hottest summer France had seen in 150 years and one of the deadliest. The country’s main weather service, Météo France, has put 33 regional departments on “orange alert”, the second highest warning level, with temperatures expected to spike as high as 43 C (109 F) […]
Criminal charges filed against German rabbi for performing circumcision
A German Rabbi has become the first person to face criminal charges after performing a circumcision. The charges come less than two months after a Cologne court ruled that the […]
Legal amendments could cut naturalisations
The number of foreigners being granted Swiss citizenship is likely to fall by nine per cent a year if government-backed amendments to the naturalisation law are accepted, according to a […]
Beating the Heat!
Source: Spiegel Germany experienced extreme heat on last weekend. How every one rushed to water you can see from this picture.
It’s in the cards
Nine per cent of the Swiss population practises alternative spirituality, according to a national study on religion. swissinfo.ch journalist Susan Vogel-Misicka sat in on a Bern workshop about reading tarot cards. Please click on for an audio report
Picture of the Day: Team Work
A cycle on the roads of Berlin, Germany, combining energies of 11 people:
Russia, China say bypassing UN rules is ‘impermissible’: Battle lines are Drawn
Russian TV: Russia and China have jointly called for other nations to strictly observe the UN charter and the international law after the US said it would bypass the UN […]
France: No solution unless Assad leaves
PARIS: ARAB NEWS Tuesday 21 August 2012 French President Francois Hollande insisted yetsreday that there can be no political solution for Syria unless President Bashar Assad steps down from power. There “cannot be a political solution without the departure of Bashar Assad,” Hollande told the new UN peace envoy to […]
Near Record Temperatures in Germany :Summer Heat Finally Finds its Way North
Credit: Spiegel dapd It took a while. But summer finally arrived in Germany over the weekend following a wet June and a gray July. Close to record temperatures drove most people out of doors. More:
Swiss keep religion at a distance
by Clare O’Dea, swissinfo.ch Religion is becoming less important in people’s private lives in Switzerland, even among tax-paying members of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, two-thirds of whom are […]
Genetically engineering ‘ethical’ babies is a moral obligation, says Oxford professor
Daily Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in […]