By Isobel Leybold-Johnson APR 4, 2017 A trainee teacher during her final internship at a primary school in Thun, canton Bern (Keystone) Are teachers in Swiss schools too Swiss? One university of teacher training thinks so. It plans to launch an innovative campaign to find trainee teachers from immigrant backgrounds […]
Apr 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Margaret A. Boden Artificial intelligence (AI) already plays a major role in human economies and societies, and it will play an even bigger role in the coming years. To ponder the future of AI is thus to acknowledge that the future is AI. This will […]
Apr 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby March 30, 1976, was a transformative moment in Palestinian history. On that day, Palestinian citizens of Israel organised and implemented a nation-wide strike to protest the Israeli government’s plans to confiscate thousands of hectares of Palestinian-owned land in the Galilee region. The […]
By AFP – Apr 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian people hold banner during a social media campaign ‘#SavePalPeople’ in Gaza City, Gaza, on Saturday (Anadolu Agency photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel is blocking rights activists’ access to and from the Gaza Strip, hampering their work in the Palestinian enclave […]
by Bridie Pearson-Jones in discover Picture: SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Feeling smug about your vegan lifestyle? This will give you pause for thought. Research from the University of Missouri has shown that plants can sense when they’re going to be eaten – and they don’t like it. https://player.vimeo.com/video/99635253 The study […]
avril 1, 2017 Abdou Semmar Les ahmadis continuent de subir l’inquisition dans l’indifférence générale. Plusieurs d’entre eux ont été condamnés ces derniers jours dans plusieurs régions du pays. C’est le cas […]
Source: Huffington Post By Areeb Siddiqui; Financial consultant, Physicist, Amateur Zoologist “Well as long as your imam doesn’t have a hook for a hand I won’t get worried!”. A strange thing to […]
April 3, 2017 TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said his country will not give the Trump administration any pretext that can be used against it. “The establishment in its entirety has reached the conclusion that we shouldn’t give them (the Americans) any excuse,” Zarif said […]
Natasha Maguder and Tom Page, CNN Updated 0846 GMT (1646 HKT) April 3, 2017 Source: CNN It is officially the oldest university in the world Rare color images from 1899 offer glimpse into a lost North Africa So goes an old Moroccan proverb. For centuries, wise men have flocked to […]
This Hindu Sadhu is Acharya Pramod Krishnan Ji Suggested Reading How can Hindus think like a Muslim or a Jew, despite the mention of 330 million gods?
Dr. Asif Mahmood, a pulmonologist born in Pakistan, opposes President’s anti-immigration measures and move to repeal Obamacare Christopher Weber A Pakistani-born doctor has announced that he is joining the 2018 race for lieutenant […]
By Shachar Peled, CNN (CNN) A Muslim family returned from a weekend getaway to find their home vandalized. Shoaib and Mahrukh — who asked to be identified only by their […]
By Adelle M. Banks | March 31, 2017 (RNS) The president of the Unitarian Universalist Association has resigned three months short of the end of his second term, declaring that someone else needed to address the religious movement’s diversity problems. The Rev. Peter Morales, the first Latino president of the liberal and […]
Bloomberg APR 1, 2017 – (Bloomberg) — Iqbal Khan, Credit Suisse Group AG’s head of international wealth management, said he’s surprised by the timing of a tax evasion investigation […]
Reuters | Published — Sunday 2 April 2017 (AFP) RELATED ARTICLES CAIRO: Egypt’s Court of Urgent Matters ruled that a judicial decision to block the transfer of two Red Sea […]
AFP | Published — Monday 3 April 2017 Britain’s Foreign Minister Boris. (AP) RELATED ARTICLES RIYADH: Britain has apologized after an egg was thrown at a Saudi military official during […]
By Anand Chandrasekhar APR 2, 2017 – The Café de la Couronne along with Hotel Bristol in Geneva were favoured hangouts for anti-colonial activists and foreign agents(by courtesy) A forgotten […]
Apr 02,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The world is facing several crises today. In the Middle East, so far, there is a security crisis; other countries around the world are facing a serious ideological threat. Europe’s problems are, in part, related to external factors such as refugees, but […]
By AFP – Apr 02,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced Iraqi people who fled their homes stand in a queue to receive aid in the city of Mosul, Iraq, on […]
The 17-year-old among three more people picked up by police, bringing the total number of arrests to nine Chantal Da Silva @chantaladasilva A teenage girl was among three more people arrested over a “brutal” suspected hate crime which left a teenage asylum seeker with a fractured skull and a blood […]