Britain’s fishermen have condemned a European Union deal on fishing which will keep their boats tied up for longer as a “bitter blow” to the industry. Although the British fishing […]
David Cameron warned the Church of England that it must keep to an “agenda that speaks to the whole country” as he said Britain should be proud to be a […]
By Antoine Ghattas Saab The Daily Star, Lebanon The Vatican is engaged in an attempt to resolve the nine-month-old crisis in Syria, while the United States is preparing to strike […]
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Women are having fewer children and at an older age than a generation ago, new statistics show. Women born in the 1960s have had fewer children than a generation ago to women born in the 1930s, new data has revealed. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show that women […]
By Tom Chivers in Telegraph There are no atheists in foxholes, goes the old saw. Well, it’s not true, as Christopher Hitchens – a man of principle to the last […]
Source: TOI The report criticised the church for protecting paedophile priests as it tried to put the reputation of the church above care and concern for the victims. AMSTERDAM: Tens of thousands of children have been victims of sexual abuse by the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands since […]
2011 in Europe was marked by Norway’s Utoya massacre, the Dominique Straus-Khan affair, the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi and rumblings of discontent towards Vladimir Putin. Telegraph UK Perhaps the most […]
There are parallels between the search for the ‘God particle’ and the search for God Himself. By Alister McGrath In 1994, Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman came up with a nickname […]
Senior British commanders and officials are concerned that US plans to cut defence spending will be followed by other allies in Europe and elsewhere. Reductions in allied military capabilities could put a greater burden on Britain’s stretched forces in Afghanistan and elsewhere, it is feared. The military planning work has […]
Source: NYTimes PARIS — Former French President Jacques Chirac, 79, was convicted on Thursday of embezzlement and misuse of public funds to illegally finance his political party using fake jobs when he was mayor of Paris. Mr. Chirac, who was not present at the trial because of reported health and […]
Amnesty International describing herself: Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in more than 150 countries and territories who campaign to end […]
Stunned motorists were forced to brake sharply to avoid the falling fruit, believed to be swept up by a vortex caused by freak weather conditions in Coventry. An avalanche of […]
Soaurce: NYTimes: LIÈGE, Belgium — Belgian police said on Wednesday that they had discovered a woman’s body at a storage facility used by the man who lobbed hand grenades and […]
Source: Asia Times By Pepe Escobar Every grain of sand in the Syrian desert now knows there won’t be a “responsibility to protect”-enabled North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) “humanitarian” intervention to provoke regime change in Damascus. A protracted war like in Libya is not feasible – even though those faultless […]
RT: ……”Well, we don’t know, but it would appear that it was an individual incident. Earlier reports that there were three or four gunmen involved have since been discredited and it equally appears that he wasn’t targeting anybody in particular… so in a sense it’s not a replica of what […]
Source / Courtesy: The Independent Emails published today show that News International boss James Murdoch was sent details in 2008 of claims that phone-hacking was “rife” at the News of […]
The bishop of the diocese of Basel, Felix Gmür, has spoken out against a controversial statement about sex education by the bishop of Chur, Vitus Huonder. Gmür told the SonntagsZeitung newspaper that “teaching about human sexuality is the job of the school. It shouldn’t be relinquished”. Gmür, a member of […]
On 26 November 2011, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat celebrated the Golden Anniversary of the Independence of Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Tanzania in an event organised by the Pan-African Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
BY ABDUL HAQ COMPIER Source / Courtesy: January 2011, Alislam-eGazette Summary: Traditional education about Western civilisation tells the story of how around 1500, Greek texts recovered the lost memory of Europe’s Greek […]