German town divided over fate over listing tower
A German town is divided over the future of a church tower that has developed a list greater than that of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The 183-foot tower in […]
Eyeing 2012, White House Presses Europe on Debt: At Stake, Obama’s Re-election
NY Times: By HELENE COOPER and ANNIE LOWERY. Publicly, Obama administration officials talk only about the economic consequences of a potential debt conflagration in Europe. Privately, though, they are well aware that Europe’s success in dealing with the troubles — and the administration’s success in persuading them to do so […]
Europe’s radical right focuses on fighting Islam
Source: Dawn As daylight broke on June 4, worshippers found a mosque in southern Denmark defaced with drawings of the Prophet Muhammad and slogans urging Muslims to “go home.” In late October, a dismembered pig was buried on the construction site of a planned mosque on the outskirts of Copenhagen. […]
Britain to pay ‘hundreds of millions’ to disabled foreigners if UK loses court battle, Chris Grayling warns
Britain will have to be pay “hundreds of millions of pounds” in benefits to ‘economically inactive’ disabled foreigners, if it loses a historic court battle with the European Union, Welfare […]
Russia protests: Gorbachev calls for election re-run
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has said Sunday’s Russian parliamentary election was marred by fraud and has called for a re-run.”The country’s leaders must admit there were numerous falsifications and rigging and the results do not reflect the people’s will,” he said.Protesters were planning new rallies for Saturday as arrests […]
Polygamy in the Holy Qur’an
This is an article by Dr. Khaula Rehman published in spring 2010 volume of Muslim Sunrise. King Henry the VIII and his six wives A picture is worth a thousand […]
The Head of Ahmadiyyah Muslim Community sends a direct message to Pope Benedict
“I believe it is essential, that we urgently increase our efforts to save the world from this destruction. There is an urgent need for mankind to recognise its Creator as […]
The arrogance of eurozone elites could kill the European Union
Daily Telegraph- Jack Straw: In 1818, Castlereagh claimed that the Congress System of diplomacy – established to secure peace and stability across a war-ravaged Europe – amounted to “a new discovery in the European government… giving to the counsels of the Great Powers the efficiency and almost the simplicity of […]
Keeping up the St Nicholas tradition
by Isobel Leybold-Johnson, swissinfo.ch With Christmas becoming increasingly commercialised, the custom of St Nicholas, which is celebrated on December 6 in Switzerland, has been fighting back. St Nicholas, who is […]
Greece Still Not Out of the Woods
http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/VideoPlayerMain.swf Any country, state or corporation, which indulges in significant amount of interest based loans will sooner or later find herself in woods or a thick jungle of financial chaos […]
Horrific global food crisis is looming
Michael Snyder. Pravda Ru. ….the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis. At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family. It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it is going to happen. Crazy weather and horrifying natural disasters […]
UK: In their rush to save the economy, politicians forget about the people, and the gulf widens between rich and poor
Pensioners and parents are being forced into poverty. Who will be their champion? At the height of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln stood in a soldiers’ graveyard and promised […]
United Russia wins parliamentary elections
Pravda Ru. o5.12.2011. Russia’s Central Election Commission has processed 92 percent of votes as of Monday morning, Dec. 5. United Russia, the ruling party, has gained 49.67 percent of votes, Nikolai Konkin, the secretary of the commission said. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation gained 19.13%, Just Russia – […]
Vladimir Putin: the gremlin in the Kremlin
Russia’s ‘squeezed middle’ is disenchanted with Mr Putin, as his election humiliation shows – even his allies are getting nervous about his plans. As Vladimir Putin nurses a rare electoral […]
A new beginning for the United Nations: Will it survive the current crisis?
By Gyan Basnet. Courtesy Asia Times Online. The United Nations was founded in 1945 in order to replace the League of Nations and in so doing to bring about a new world order. Today the organization’s structure still reflects the circumstances pertaining at the time of its founding, but in the meantime […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta participated in President’s Charity Fun Run 2011
A record-breaking some 11,000 people filled the streets from San Anton to Valletta in the third – and biggest – the yearly President’s Charity Fun Run for Istrina that took […]
WWII bomb in Rhine near Koblenz successfully defused
Bomb disposal experts in the German city of Koblenz have successfully defused two bombs from World War II found in the riverbed of the Rhine. They were discovered when water […]
Vladimir Putin to be embarrassed in Russian elections, exit polls show
Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party appears to have lost the trust of millions of Russians after early results showed it had won less than fifty per cent of the […]
Unesco faces cost of Palestine vote
by Mathieu van Berchem in Paris, swissinfo.ch The United Nations culture agency is dealing with the financial consequences of a political decision taken in October – a funding shortfall of 22 per cent. On October 31 the United States suspended its financial contribution to Unesco after Palestine was admitted as […]
Norway terrorist Behring Breivik disputes ‘insane’ diagnosis: lawyer
Source: The Vancouver Sun The confessed killer behind the July massacre in Norway disputes an expert conclusion that he is criminally insane, a newspaper reported Saturday, quoting one of his […]