Self-driving taxi trial kicks off in Singapore
Source: BBC By Andreas Illmer Business reporter Self-driving cars and taxis are the buzz of the industry. Everyone seems to be doing it, trying grab headlines with every step forward […]
What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower
Source: Time By Massimo Calabresi In the summer of 1980, Donald Trump faced a big problem. For six months, undocumented Polish laborers had been clearing the future site of Trump Tower, […]
Nine families raised children who all went on to extraordinary success. Here’s what they have in common
Source: Time By Charlotte Alter Every night for 20 years, Gino Rodriguez knelt beside his three daughters’ beds and whispered an incantation. As rats the size of footballs skittered along […]
Sarkozy calls burkinis a ‘provocation’ that supports radical Islam
Source: The Guardian By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris and Martin Farrer French presidential hopeful earns sharp rebuke from burkini designer Aheda Zanetti, who says French don’t understand her creation The […]
USA: Domino’s to start pizza drone deliveries this year
Successful test in Auckland and New Zealand paves the way for Domino’s to deliver pizzas by drone. By Alistair Charlton August 25, 2016 11:20 BST , IBTimes.co.uk Updated 4 hr ago The Domino’s pizza chain is to start delivering orders by drone later in 2016. The announcement came after it successfully demonstrated how […]
Muslim YouTuber Spells Out Exactly Why France’s Burkini Ban Is So Problematic
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor British YouTuber Dina Torkia had a few choice words about the temporary “Burkini bans” that have swept through several French cities in […]
Ban the Burqa, Not the Burkini
Source: Newsmax By Daniel Pipes, who has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the U.S. Naval War College, and Pepperdine University. Pipes is the author of 12 books […]
RCMP allows Muslim women police officers to wear hijab
The Mounties have adopted a new uniform policy to allow female Muslim officers to wear the hijab. Scott Bardsley, spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, confirmed that RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson recently approved an addition to the uniform policy to allow women officers to wear the head scarf “if they so choose.” “The […]
French burkini ban row escalates after clothing incident at Nice beach
Source: The Guardian A sign at Ponchettes beach in Nice shows the law forbidding the wearing of clothing such as the burkini. Photograph: Jean Christophe Magnenet/AFP/Getty By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris […]
Police Scotland uniform to include Muslim hijab
Source: BBC Police Scotland has announced women from Muslim communities may now wear the hijab as part of their uniform. It is part of an attempt to encourage Muslim women […]
Turkish Tanks Enter Syria to Free ISIS-Held Town
Source: Time By Susan Fraser and Philip Issa ANKARA, Turkey —After a pre-dawn barrage of heavy artillery and airstrikes, Turkey sent tanks and special forces into Syria on Wednesday to help […]
Sony Is About to Turn PCs Into PlayStations
Source: Time By Matt Peckham A decade after its launch in November 2006, Sony’s PlayStation 3 is coming to Windows. Sony says a PC-compatible version of its PlayStation Now cloud gaming […]
Why bullying is such a successful evolutionary strategy
Source: BBC By Melissa Hogenboom Frodo ruled with an iron fist. He incited fear among his fellow group members. His “demonic streak”, as it was later called, started early. From […]
Inspector general: NYPD skirted rules for surveillance
Source: Associated Press By TOM HAYS NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department chronically skirted rules intended to protect political groups from unwarranted government surveillance while investigating Muslims, the city’s independent police monitor said in a report released Tuesday. The audit, conducted by Inspector General Philip Eure, found […]
Trump aide accused Catholics of backing immigration to boost church
Source: The Hill By Rafael Bernal Steve Bannon, Donald Trump‘s new campaign CEO, previously accused Catholics of supporting Hispanic immigration to prop up the church’s numbers on his radio program […]
We have Christmas, Hanukkah and Eid stamps. Now the U.S. gets its first Hindu stamp.
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer It took petitions from everyone from schoolchildren to members of Congress, and 12 years of waiting. Soon, a long-hoped-for goal will be a […]
There’s just one country other than the Vatican where divorce is illegal — and some want to change that
Source: Los Angeles Time What do you do when you find yourself in an unhappy marriage but live in a country where there is no divorce? You go on Facebook […]
Breaking News: France requesting to Saudi Arabia’s ‘Morality Police’ for training their police force!
After Nice, the Cannes Mayor has also passed legislation that no Muslim Burqini ladies should be seen at the Mediterranean beaches. In the meantime the ban has spread to a third coastal city. The Pakistani DAWN reports: Woman forced to remove clothing on France beach after burkini ban DAWN.COM — […]
Canadian High Commission shuts down anti-Ahmadiyya Twitter troll
August 24, 2016 | by Rabwah Times | 1 The High Commission of Canada to Pakistan fired back after receiving a message calling Ahmadis “non-Muslims” on social media. On 23rd August 2016 the twitter account of the Canadian High Commission shared a picture and wrote: “Acting High Commissioner Stuart Savage […]
Ghana: Attorney-General & Minister for Justice Opong addresses the 37th Annual National Convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association
Mrs Appiah-Opong was addressing the 37th Annual National Convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association in Kumasi. The three-day convention was under the theme ‘Peaceful Co-existence in Our Contemporary Society, A Concern for All’. Mrs Appiah-Opong, who was representing the First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama, as the Special Guest of […]