‘There’s a 50% chance I’ve a fatal disease. Do I find out?’
Source: BBC News If you could see how the rest of your life might play out would you want to? Jackie Harrison has a 50-50 chance of a disease that […]
Apple Is Partnering With Malala’s Non-Profit to Educate More Than 100,000 Girls
Source: Time By KATIE REILLY January 22, 2018 Apple is partnering with Malala Fund to educate more than 100,000 girls around the world, the company announced Monday. Malala Fund — the nonprofit founded by […]
A Nurse Already Serving a Life Sentence Was Charged With Killing 97 More Patients
Source: Time By GEIR MOULSON / AP January 22, 2018 (BERLIN) — A German nurse who is already serving a life sentence for two murders has been charged with killing 97 […]
Fake News that Everyone Loves
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Trump’s voters love the “fake news” that suits their agenda. It was in fact during the […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community attends Detroit’s Regional Interfaith Retreat held at Metropolitan United Methodist Church
“Ahmadiyya Muslim community is a progressive, peaceful and inclusive community which believes in the freedom of religion as per the teachings of Holy Quran“, said Imam Shamshad A. Nasir of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Rochester Hills. Report by Muhammad Ahmad Detroit Detroit Regional Interfaith Voice for Equity Leadership Retreat was […]
India Should Be Grateful to Alauddin Khilji for Thwarting the Mongol Invasions
The Wire: For the past month, Rajasthan has been convulsed by a controversy over the Bollywood movie, Padmavati, based on Padmavat – a prose-poem written by Malik Muhammad Jayasi in 1540 CE which uses Alauddin Khilji’s conquest of Chittor in 1303 CE and his supposed obsession with Rani Padmini of Chittor as a […]
A Nurse Already Serving a Life Sentence Was Charged With Killing 97 More Patients
Source: Time By GEIR MOULSON / AP January 22, 2018 (BERLIN) — A German nurse who is already serving a life sentence for two murders has been charged with killing 97 […]
Supreme Court to Consider Challenge to Trump’s Latest Travel Ban
Source: The New York Times By ADAM LIPTAK Protester at a rally against President Trump’s travel ban at Foley Square in Manhattan last month.CreditVictor J. Blue for The New York Times […]
Pope: Femicides in Latin America a scourge that must stop
Source: Associated Press BY NICOLE WINFIELD and CHRISTINE ARMARIO TRUJILLO, Peru (AP) — Pope Francis denounced femicides and other gender-based crimes that have turned Latin America into the most violent place […]
Rohingya Muslims’ repatriation to Myanmar postponed
Source: The Guardian BY Michael Safi and agencies The gradual repatriation of more than 650,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees to Myanmar from Bangladesh has been postponed amid widespread fears that refugees would be forced […]
U.S. Embassy in Israel to move to Jerusalem by end of 2019: Pence
Source: Reuters By Jeff Mason, Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The U.S. Embassy in Israel will move to Jerusalem by the end of 2019, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said in […]
Jordan’s king delivers pointed remarks to Pence on Jerusalem
Source: The Washington Post By Jenna Johnson and Loveday Morris January 21 at 8:28 PM AMMAN — In pointed public remarks, Jordan’s King Abdullah II told Vice President Pence on Sunday that he had repeatedly […]
Key cardinal rebukes pope over abuse comment in rare move
Source: Reuters By Philip Pullella, Caroline Stauffer TRUJILLO, Peru (Reuters) – A key U.S. cardinal distanced himself on Saturday from comments by Pope Francis on sexual abuse, saying they had caused […]
Alaska Native group slams planned shamanism event
Source: Associated Press By RACHEL D’ORO ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska Native group spoke out Friday against a shamanism retreat, saying the event commercializes and exploits the spiritual healing […]
Pope Francis Compares Gossiping Nuns To Terrorists
Source: Huffington Post By Mary Papenfuss He says they’re worse than Shining Path guerrillas. Pope Francis compared gossiping nuns with terrorists during his South American tour stop in Lima on […]
Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts
Source: BBC News By Chris Johnston Business reporter, BBC News Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionCustomers enter the store by scanning the Amazon Go app on their smartphone In a move that could revolutionise […]
‘World’s richest 1% get 82% of the wealth’, says Oxfam
Source: BBC News By Katie Hope BBC News, Davos Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES The gap between the super rich and the rest of the world widened last year as wealth continued to […]
Embarrassment makes women avoid smear tests, charity says
Source: BBC news By Katie SilverHealth reporter, BBC News Young women are avoiding getting smear tests because they are embarrassed by the look and smell of their pubic areas, a […]
Persian shallot ‘could help fight TB antibiotic resistance’
Source: BBC News A type of onion could help the fight against antibiotic resistance in cases of tuberculosis, a study has suggested. Researchers believe the antibacterial properties extracted from the […]
India woman fights family over ‘low caste’ husband’s murder
Source: BBC News In March 2016, a 22-year-old man was hacked to death in daylight on a crowded road in southern India for marrying a woman of a higher caste. […]