New study contradicts previous research that they came from farmer lineage British men may trace their lineage back to hunter-gatherers, not farmers as had previously been suspected. A new genetic lineage study finds that, contrary to previous research, British men do not descend from immigrant farmers who migrated west from […]
Telegraph: Marines who have defeated Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean were sent for “training” by health and safety officials before being allowed to re-enact their encounters at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Members of HMS Montrose’s counter-piracy team board hijacked ships using a technique called “fast roping” in which […]
By LISA KAAKI, LISA.KAAKI@ARABNEWS.COM During the 19th century, many women, particularly Englishwomen, were fascinated by the Arab world. Most of these female travelers, like Lucie Duff Gordon, Lady Ann Blunt, Gertrude Bell, Isabelle Eberhardt and Freya Stark, to name but a few, are known to us through their impassioned travelogues. […]
From BBC News Retail sales grew only slightly last month, as cash-strapped consumers remained under pressure, figures show. Sales volumes excluding petrol rose just 0.2% in July, a slowdown on the 0.8% increase in June, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Sales of household goods, clothing and footwear all […]
From: BBC News The funerals of three men knocked down and killed during riots in Birmingham will take place in the city later. Haroon Jahan, 21, Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, were hit by a car as they protected stores from looters in Winson Green on 10 August. […]
Source/Credit: LONDON, August 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK expresses its outrage that another of our mosques in Indonesia has been attacked yesterday. The continual spiral of violence and extremist attacks on Ahmadiyya Muslims and other religious groups reflects how Indonesia is slipping into lawlessness which […]
Source/Credit: Al Jazeera By Robert Lambert There is a lively debate taking place in the UK media between left and right wing commentators as to the causes of the English riots, in which hundreds of shops and businesses have been looted. However, both sides agree that the looting has been […]
Source/Credit: Mirror A HEARTFELT plea for peace from a dad just hours after his son was killed may have saved a city from further bloodshed, a top cop said yesterday. West Midlands Chief Constable Chris Sims was speaking after a visit to the home of murder victim Haroon Jahan, 21, […]
Source / Courtesy: The Royal Gazette online, Bermuda By Sara Westhead Faithful Muslims around the world have been fasting for the last two weeks as they celebrate the month of Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic calendar, when it is said that the Prophet Mohammad first began receiving the words of the […]
Source/Credit: Editorial The Sunday Times of Malta: 14.08.2011/Photo: Google images One has to feel for David Cameron. There he was, one minute, immersed in the wonderful rolling hills of Tuscany; the next he had to bring his holiday to an abrupt end, put a tie back round his neck and […]
The exhausted secret intelligence officer was heading home after a heavy session analysing reports from Iraq. As he stepped out through the high-security air-lock exit from MI6’s grand headquarters beside the Thames in London, a newspaper-seller’s placard caught his eye — ‘45 minutes from attack,’ it proclaimed. Alarm bells rang […]
Thousands of people have rallied to help the victims of the riots, donating food, toys, and clothing to families who have lost homes and businesses. Church congregations, charity workers and individual residents have offered their services in the parts of London, Birmingham, Manchester and other towns that were hit by […]
Source / Courtesy: Mathaba By Paul Joseph Watson Given the fine example set in Libya, it follows that the rebels who expressed their grievances against the establishment last night by burning and looting half of London and other cities around the UK should swiftly be given their own embassy […]
Source / Courtesy: CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s accused rioters are facing the courts in growing numbers, as the streets remain quiet and the police continue their efforts to bring all those responsible for rampaging through London and other cities to justice. More than 1,900 people have been arrested and about half […]
It’s a little-known act of bravery – how two British clerics rescued 1,800 Jews from the Nazis by baptising them. First there was Oskar Schindler, then Sir Nicholas Winton. Now the names of the Reverends Hugh Grimes and Fred Collard are to be added to the roll of honour of […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — The British border agency has informed a fundamentalist Rabbi that he will not be allowed to enter the country for the next three years, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Thursday. Rabbi Yosef Elitzur received a letter from the British authorities, signed by the home secretary, informing […]
Britain’s police forces could face a bill for tens of millions of pounds from insurance companies because property was damaged in the rioting while the “police effectively failed to keep law and order”. Grahame Trudgill, the head of corporate affairs for the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (Biba), said insurance companies […]
David Cameron has demanded that police are more “robust” in their response to rioters, in apparent criticism of the Met’s handling of the recent violence. The Prime Minister, who only arrived back from his holiday this morning to try and take charge of the escalating troubles, said that police numbers […]