BRUSSELS — Belgium’s Muslim community was in shock Tuesday after a man set fire to a Shiite mosque in Brussels, leaving the imam dead in an act some linked to tensions between Shiites and Sunnis. As investigators interrogated the suspect, a self-described Muslim in his mid-30s, members of the Shiite […]
A coach crash in Valais, southern Switzerland, on Tuesday night has left 28 people dead – 22 of them children. The dead and injured were among a Belgian school group […]
Source: Guardian Unlimited Its legacy winds back through centuries and across continents, past the birth of America to the waning days of the Enlightenment. It is a record of humanity’s […]
Russia will send a team of cosmonauts to the Moon, 60 years after Neil Armstrong’s Apollo mission effectively ended the US-Soviet space race. A spacecraft will “conduct a demonstrative manned […]
Britons drank almost one million fewer bottles of Champagne last year than they did in 2010, in the latest sign that consumers are cutting back on the finer things in […]
Ahmadiyya Times: Aftenposten By Magnus Brattset Drabløs: Ahmadiyya community in Oslo wants to build housing, cultural and business center around the mosque site, writes Aftenposten. It is uncertain who will be charged with development of […]
ArabNews. BRUSSELS: A mosque near Brussels was the target Monday evening of an arson attack in which the imam died, Belgian authorities said late Monday. One man was arrested — a Muslim who said he was born in 1978 — in the attack on the mosque in Anderlecht, a suburb […]
Speakers: Hon. Simon Busuttil – Member of European Parliament Hon. Evarist Bartolo – Member of Maltese Parliament Ms. Angele Deguara – Malta Green Party Fr. Edgar Busuttil SJ – Representing […]
Credit: Spiegel International-Germany. Nicolas Sarkozy is unpopular because he has behaved more like an upstart than a president. He’s trying to get re-elected,claiming to have changed, but it’s probably too late. The French people prefer his Socialist opponent François Hollande,who would bring change to France and upheaval to Europe. By Mathieu […]
The Daily Telegraph; By Boris Johnson: If I were Nadia Eweida, I would be starting to think that the whole world had gone completely mad. You remember Nadia, the mild-looking […]
The Roman Catholic bishop of Chur, Vitus Huonder, has defended a pastoral letter in which he reminded church-goers that divorced Catholics who remarry cannot receive communion. “The ten commandments were […]
The measures used to overcome the Asian financial crisis should not be overlooked by Europe. by Stephen S. Roach, who is Non Executive Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and author of The Next Asia. (AlJazeera) New Haven, CT – The austerity debate was the topic du jour at this year’s […]
The number of European criminals in English prisons has doubled over the past decade, while only a handful are being sent home to complete their sentences. Official figures show […]
Sir William Patey, the British ambassador to Afghanistan, has spoken frankly about what he sees as the errors and failings in the country over the past decade. With two weeks […]
(Reuters) – Pope Benedict on Friday denounced the “powerful political and cultural currents” seeking to legalize gay marriage in the United States, where Maryland has just become the eighth state […]
Nick Clegg today demands the introduction of a “tycoon tax” which will mean that wealthy Britons have to pay a minimum rate of tax on their total annual earnings of […]
Italy’s foreign minister said Friday that Rome wanted Britain to communicate further details on its failed Nigeria rescue bid “in the next hours”. Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata said after talks […]
(Reuters) – Banks are foreclosing on America’s churches in record numbers as lenders increasingly lose patience with religious facilities that have defaulted on their mortgages, according to new data. The […]
Credit: Telegraph and Argues via Wasim Saroya of Selvenia: Mujeeb Rahman A Muslim group staged a two-week exhibition in Keighley library to dispel what it describes as misrepresentations of Islam’s central text. Temporary information boards displaying explanations of the content of the Koran were displayed on the library’s ground floor, […]
Russian TV: Hacktivist group Anonymous has launched an online assault on anti-virus company Panda Security after Tuesday’s arrest of members of the hackers’ LulzSec collective. The group also raided the […]