Eric Garner death inspires an unlikely police experiment
Source: BBC News A debate continues to rage over police use of force, with officers seeing incidents very differently to civilians. What happens when the two sides are forced to […]
Berlin reels after nine inmates escape Plötzensee prison
Source: BBC News Berlin authorities are the target of ridicule and disbelief after nine prisoners escaped or absconded from one prison in the space of five days. Six remain on […]
Trump to Kim: My nuclear button is ‘bigger and more powerful’
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has boasted that his nuclear button is “much bigger” and “more powerful” than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s. Mr Trump’s tweet is the latest contribution to an increasingly personalised feud between the nuclear-armed leaders. Mr Kim threatened earlier this week that his nuclear […]
It’s True: Alcohol Helps You Speak a Foreign Language Better
Source: Time By AMANDA MACMILLAN October 20, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Those who dabble in learning a new language sometimes find that alcohol — in moderation — helps […]
Emboldened Israeli Right Presses Moves to Doom 2-State Solution
Source: The New York Times By DAVID M. HALBFINGER Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud Party voted Sunday to support the annexation of Israeli settlements in occupied territory. CreditAmir Cohen/Reuters JERUSALEM — An emboldened Israeli […]
German police accuse AfD lawmaker of incitement over anti-Muslim tweet
Source: Reuters BY Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) – German police have asked prosecutors to investigate a far-right lawmaker for possible incitement to hatred after she criticized a police force for […]
Gunmen kill 14 churchgoers after services in Nigeria
Source: The Guardian Killers reportedly operated at two locations in coordinated attack on Christians returning from churches At least 14 people have been killed and 12 injured in attacks on […]
New Slaughtering Rules Pit Dutch Religious Freedoms Against Animal Rights
Source: The New York Times By NINA SIEGAL DEC. 31, 2017 The Slagerij Marcus kosher butcher shop in Amsterdam. Jewish and Muslim groups have agreed to change ritual slaughter practices in […]
THE ZEALOUS FAITH OF SECULARISM
Source: First Things by Mary Eberstadt January 2018 Begin with a sobering fact. During the past ten years, some of the sharpest observers of our time have come to believe that […]
Trump’s tweet on Pakistan sparks war of words
Anwar Iqbal | Iftikhar A. Khan Updated January 02, 2018 PRESIDENT Donald Trump fumes at Pakistan, saying it thinks US leaders are fools. ISLAMABAD / WASHINGTON: Ties between Pakistan and the United States, strained for the past several weeks, suffered a New Year setback on Monday when President Donald […]
How America Is Transforming Islam
The Atlantic: Taz Ahmed is 38, single, Muslim, and Bengali. She describes herself as spiritual, but not particularly religious. When she was growing up, her immigrant parents hoped she would marry an I.T. worker they found for her in Oklahoma. “I’m like, ‘I don’t even know who this person is, […]
Meditation is common across many religious groups in the U.S.
Source: Pew Research Center BY DAVID MASCI AND CONRAD HACKETT In popular culture, meditation often is associated with Eastern spirituality and its secular offshoots, such as mindfulness. But substantial shares of Americans of […]
How Western civilisation could collapse
Source: BBC News By Rachel Nuwer 18 April 2017 This story is featured in BBC Future’s “Best of 2017” collection. Discover more of our picks. The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern […]
India Muslim man beaten to death ‘over New Year music’
Source: BBC News A Muslim has been beaten to death in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand after reportedly asking a group to stop playing loud music on New Year’s […]
3 Reasons Why Coffee Is So Good for You
Source: Time By ALICE PARK Coffee is increasingly earning scientists’ approval. Studies continue to suggest that the beverage may have some beneficial effects on health. In the latest analysis, published in […]
California Launches First Legal Retail Sales of Marijuana
Source: Time By BRIAN MELLEY, TERENCE CHEA / AP (OAKLAND, Calif.) — It wasn’t exactly reefer madness Monday as California launched the first legal retail sales of marijuana, but those who […]
Iran protests: Supreme leader Khamenei blames ‘enemies’
Source: BBC News Iran’s supreme leader has accused the country’s enemies of stirring days of protests that have claimed at least 22 lives. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was speaking for the […]
North Korea: South proposes Olympics delegation talks
Source: BBC News South Korea has offered high-level talks with North Korea next Tuesday to discuss its possible participation in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. The North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, […]
Time’s Up: Women launch campaign to fight sexual harassment
Source: BBC News More than 300 actresses, writers and directors have launched a project to help fight sexual harassment in the film industry and other workplaces. The initiative, which is […]