How saving a writer’s life helped my dialysis app go global
Source: BBC News By Natasha Lipman When Javier Artigas began needing kidney dialysis and found himself jobless, he developed an app to make it easier for people to get treatment […]
Arnoud van Doorn: from anti-Islamic film-maker to hajj pilgrim
Source: The Guardian Why is a former member of Geert Wilders’ anti-Islamic Party for Freedom – who made a film claiming Muslims are violent – tweeting from Mecca? Name: Arnoud Van […]
India marks 69th Republic Day with colourful parade
dawn.com India’s Constitution came into effect in 1950. The celebrations included aerial displays and floats from Indian states. APPublished 3 minutes ago India on Friday celebrated 69th Republic Day to mark the anniversary of its national constitution taking effect. Marching bands, floats, camels and stunt performers on motorbikes were paraded from […]
Hong Kong is so expensive that architects are building 100-square-foot ‘tube homes’ made from concrete water pipes
Source: Business Insider BY Leanna Garfield For the past seven years, Hong Kong has held the title of the world’s priciest city for home-buyers, according to the 2017 Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. James […]
Modern fossil discovery rewrites human history
Source: CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN)Scientists have discovered the oldest known modern human fossil outside of Africa, estimated to be between 177,000 and 194,000 years old, according to a new study in […]
USA: Mom Says NJ School Assignment Recruited for Islam
January 24, 2018NICK RUMMELL A New Jersey mom included this still from an “Intro to Islam” video in her federal complaint against the School District of the Chathams.https://www.courthousenews.com/mom-says-nj-school-assignment-recruited-for-islam/ NEWARK, N.J. (CN) – A New Jersey middle school that caught flak last year for requiring students to watch videos on Islam […]
I Was Tortured in Gay Conversion Therapy. And It’s Still Legal in 41 States.
Source: The New York Times By SAM BRINTON In the early 2000s, when I was a middle schooler in Florida, I was subjected to a trauma that was meant to erase […]
German bishops reject pope suggestion to tweak Lord’s Prayer
Source: Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Roman Catholic bishops in Germany say they’ve debated Pope Francis’ suggestion to tweak the translation of the Lord’s Prayer, but will leave it unchanged. […]
Thin crowds greet Bollywood film after rumors set off anger
Source: Associated Press By MUNEEZA NAQVI NEW DELHI (AP) — There was anger about a rumored romance between a Hindu queen and a Muslim invader. There were death threats. There […]
Amid #MeToo, Evangelicals Grapple With Misconduct In Their Own Churches
Source: NPR BY TOM GJELTEN Tennessee pastor Andy Savage confessed before his congregation to what he called “a sexual incident” in 1998 with a 17-year-old girl, Jules Woodson. Highpoint Church/Screenshot […]
China ‘holding at least 120,000 Uighurs in re-education camps’
Source: The Guardian BY Tom Phillips in Beijing At least 120,000 members of China’s Muslim Uighur minority have been confined to political “re-education camps” redolent of the Mao era that are springing […]
Monkey see, monkey 2: Scientists clone monkeys using technique that created Dolly the sheep
Source: CNN By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN)For the first time, scientists say they created cloned primates using the same complicated cloning technique that made Dolly the sheep in 1996. Shanghai scientists created […]
Supreme Court to Consider Challenge to Trump’s Latest Travel Ban
Source: The New York Times By ADAM LIPTAK Photo Protester at a rally against President Trump’s travel ban at Foley Square in Manhattan last month.CreditVictor J. Blue for The New York […]
India’s top court rejects bid to reinstate ban on film as Hindu groups protest
Source: Reuters BY Suchitra Mohanty, Shilpa Jamkhandikar NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected bids by two states to reinstate a ban on the disputed Bollywood film “Padmaavat”, […]
Ted Talk: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth
Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience — and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you […]
Science tells us – we are driven by our Unconscious – TechNation Radio Podcast
Moira speaks with Yale psychology professor John Bargh about “Before You Know It – The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do”. And on Tech Nation Health, a radical new […]
Fitch revises outlook on Pakistan’s ratings to negative
Source: ET KARACHI: Fitch Ratings has announced that it has revised the outlook on Pakistan’s long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings to negative from stable and has affirmed ‘B’ rating for both the categories. In an assessment released on its website on Thursday, Fitch – one of the […]
Muslims should not allow west to ‘dictate’ true meaning of Islam: VP al Azhar University
Source: ET Vice President (VP) of al Azhar University in Egypt, Mahmood Ahmed Hashim, has said that Muslims cannot allow the west to dictate the meaning of Islam to them, according to Express News. Talking to reporters at an invitational event in Karachi Press Club, Hashim sought to inform the local […]
South Korea hospital fire kills at least 37 people
Source: BBC At least 37 people have been killed and more than 70 injured in a fire at a hospital in South Korea. The blaze is thought to have started in the emergency room at Sejong Hospital in the south-eastern city of Miryang. About 200 patients were inside the building […]
Jerusalem is a city of hope that should bring us together — King Abdullah of Jordan
One-state solution will hold challenging obstacles to Israel By JT – Jan 25,2018 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah talks to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria during a WEF session in […]