Swiss stop short of ban on trading Iranian oil
The government has decided to tighten economic sanctions against Tehran, but stopped short of implementing a ban on trading Iranian oil to match an embargo by the European Union or […]
FIFA approves goal line technology, Islamic headscarf
AGENCIES ARABNEWS Friday 6 July 2012 ZURICH: Goal-line technology to confirm whether or not a goal has been scored and the use of the Islamic headscarf were approved by soccer’s […]
Can Islamic banking help boost Czech exports
A good deal of the ongoing economic and financial turmoil on world markets has been blamed on the unscrupulous practices of the international banking and financial sector. Islamic banking, on the other hand, is seen as a fairer and more balanced alternative which has been much less affected by the […]
Big Ben’s tower to be renamed in honour of Queen Elizabeth II
MPs back proposal to change name of east tower at the Palace of Westminster despite republican A parliamentary proposal for the tower housing Big Ben to be renamed in honour […]
British medical worker among four rescued from cave by special forces in Afghanistan
A British medical worker kidnapped in Afghanistan has been dramatically freed in a special forces raid. The SAS are understood to have carried out the helicopter raid on the cave […]
The New Evangelization: Quo Vadis
Written by: Mr. Paul Kokoski Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae states that every person has a “right” to religious freedom and that they are not to be “coerced” in any way to act contrary to their own beliefs. In seemingly contradictory fashion the same document exhorts Catholics to use the coercive […]
“Love for All, Hatred for None” – 30,000 Muslims meet in convention center Karlsruhe / Germany
“Love for All, Hatred for None ‘: 30,000 Muslims meet in convention center in Karlsruhe, Germany – For the second time since Friday the Muslim Community Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat (AMJ) […]
Global economy: The darkness returns: Have you Stored some Food?
Remember those dark days of 2008 and 2009? When doom and gloom were the norm? When economic catastrophe seemed imminent? When hope turned to fear, and then fear turned to panic? Well, folks, if you haven’t been closely following events recently then I’ve got some bad news for you: It […]
Deeper recession looms as factory output slumps
Britain and Europe share bleak economic outlook as report shows manufacturing dropping at biggest rate for three years. Britain and the rest of Europe are heading for a deeper recession […]
Vatican publishes guide on how to deal with ‘supernatural phenomena’
They have been closely guarded for more than 30 years, but guidelines on how to deal with divine apparitions of the Virgin Mary and “supernatural phenomena” have now been released […]
Archbishop of Canterbury: Queen likes to tease me
You might expect meetings between the Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury to be the most strait-laced of affairs, but Dr Rowan Williams has disclosed that the monarch likes to […]
Political stability and finance boost Swiss ranking
Switzerland is the third most competitive nation in the world according to the 2012 global competitiveness report published on Thursday by the Lausanne-based IMD business school. After climbing two spots […]
Netherlands: Parliament to press ahead with burqa, dual nationality ban laws
A majority of MPs on Thursday agreed to press ahead with legislation to stamp out dual nationality and ban the burqa, despite the caretaker status of the government. Labour MPs sided with the ruling VVD, CDA and anti-Islam PVV to agree not to label the draft laws controversial, which would […]
Is there something rotten in the Vatican court of Pope Benedict?
The ‘Vatileaks’ scandal has lifted the lid on a world of Catholic clerical intrigue and rivalry in the Holy See. A British diplomat, sent as Her Majesty’s representative to the […]
Almost €100bn pulled out of Spain as investors beat a hasty retreat
Almost €100bn (£80.2bn) of cash was pulled out of Spain in the first three months of the year by private and corporate investors fleeing the advancing financial and political crisis. […]
Norway prison to hire ‘friends’ to play chess and hockey with Breivik
Norway’s Ila prison will hire trained ‘friends’ to keep confessed mass killer Anders Breivik company, as he is deemed too dangerous to mingle with ordinary prisoners. “It could be anything […]
UK: Older workers feel discriminated against by flexible working rules
Almost a third of older workers think that their employers put colleagues with young children first, leading to tensions in the workplace, new research shows. People aged between 45 and […]
Central Banker Sees Structure of Euro Zone as ‘Unsustainable’
FRANKFURT — Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, warned Thursday that the structure of the euro zone had become “unsustainable” and criticized political leaders he said have been slow to respond to the sovereign debt crisis. “The configuration we had for 10 years, which was considered sustainable, has […]
UN Agency Plans Major Warning on Flame Virus Risk
Cnbc.com: A United Nations agency charged with helping member nations secure their national infrastructures plans to issue a sharp warning about the risk of the Flame computer virus that was […]
Conspiracy theories cloud ‘Vatileaks’ scandal
provided by Deutsche Welle. It’s a case of intrigue, betrayal, and secret documents that would make a good plot for a thriller: Paolo Gabriele, personal butler to Pope Benedict XVI, […]