Source: The Guardian By Avi Shlaim Twenty-five years ago today the Oslo accord was signed by Israel’s prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat in the Rose Garden […]
Source: BBC News By Smitha Mundasad Global health correspondent, BBC News There will be 18.1 million new cases of cancer and 9.6 million people will die with the disease this […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Muslim Times is rising to the challenge, by the Grace of Allah, with the following collection from […]
Source: BBC News Huawei is planning to launch a smartphone with a fold-out screen within a year, according to the firm’s chief executive. Richard Yu told German newspaper Die Welt that Huawei […]
Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived? Source: BBC News By Helen Briggs Prehistoric humans are under suspicion of wiping out the largest birds that ever lived after […]
Cardinal Donald Wuerl says he will go to the pope soon to discuss his potential resignation Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer and Michelle Boorstein Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who has faced […]
SOURCE: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — With the Catholic Church in crisis once again over clerical sex abuse and cover-up, Pope Francis will meet Thursday with […]
Source: Reuters BY Fathin Ungku SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A Singapore DJ has filed a court challenge against a colonial-era law that bans gay sex in the conservative city-state, his lawyers […]
Source: Associated Press KOCHI, India (AP) — A group of Catholic nuns is holding a public protest in south India, demanding the arrest of a bishop whom one nun accused […]
Chinese activists renew push for same-sex marriage in their thousands Source: Reuters By Christian Shepherd BEIJING, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Chinese activists are rallying in their thousands to renew a […]
Source: Independent BY Zamira Rahim Romanian senators have overwhelmingly voted for a measure that could be used to change the country’s constitution so that it defines marriage as a union between a man and […]
Source: Religion News Service By Tonny Onyulo SAMBURU, Kenya (RNS) — As she sat outside her hut making jewelry to sell to tourists, 9-year-old Sajon Lengupayi pleaded with passers-by to rescue […]
Source: Reuters HANOI (Reuters) – Bangladesh has no plans to take in hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees permanently, its foreign secretary said on Wednesday, adding that they “belong” […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis said Wednesday he hopes to visit Japan next year, a trip that would enable him to draw attention […]
Source: The New York Times By Jason Horowitz and Laurie Goodstein VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis summoned bishops from around the world to Rome for an unprecedented meeting focused on protecting minors. The […]
Epigraph: And remember the time when We assigned to Abraham the site of the House and said, ‘Associate not anything with Me, and keep My House clean for those who […]
Epigraph: Whoever saves a life, it would be as if he or she has saved the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Peter Albert David Singer, AC (born 6 July 1946) is […]
Of all the problems facing humanity, which should we focus on solving first? In a compelling talk about how to make the world better, moral philosopher Will MacAskill provides a […]
The movie is based on one of India’s first female combat aviators, Gunjan Saxena. The movie is based on one of India’s first female combat aviators, Gunjan Saxena. https://images.dawn.com/news/1180864 Following in Alia Bhatt’s footsteps, Sridevi’s daughter and Bollywood newcomer Janhvi Kapoor is quickly becoming a Karan Johar favourite. The […]
Source: The Catholic Herald By Benedict Rogers Almost three months after suicide bombers attacked three churches in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city, I stood at the very spot where the […]