Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightOHSUImage captionPictures of the genetically modified embryos Scientists have, for the first time, successfully freed embryos […]
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE > WORLD https://tribune.com.pk/story/1473163/saudi-arabia-open-beach-resort-women-can-wear-bikinis/ By News DeskPublished: August 3, 2017 26 Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammad bin Salman has unveiled plans for a luxury Red Sea resort where special laws will allow women to wear bikinis instead of covering up their skin. Foreign visitors are unlikely to come to […]
Source: BBC News Hyperloop One has carried out its latest test of a futuristic high-speed transport system in the Nevada desert. The creators hope to carry passengers at speeds of […]
Source: BBC News Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said new sanctions imposed by the US are tantamount to declaring a “full-scale trade war” against Moscow. He said the measures, […]
Source: The Guardian Comments posted on Norwegian ‘Fatherland first’ Facebook group call empty seats on bus ‘terrifying’ The bus seats in a picture posted on Fedrelandet Viktigst, or Fatherland first. […]
Source: The New York Times By ROD DREHERAUG. According to Genesis 1, in four days, God made the heavens, the earth and all the vegetation upon it. But four days after […]
Source: Gallup By Andrew Dugan Polygamy, a practice that President James Garfield once said “offends the moral sense,” is now seen by 17% of Americans as “morally acceptable,” up from […]
Source: The Guardian BY Saeed Kamali Dehghan Iran correspondent Concerns raised that Hassan Rouhani may unveil all-male list of ministers in cabinet reshuffle as he prepares for second term President Hassan […]
Source: Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An Islamic cemetery that was initially denied a permit in suburban Minneapolis has now been vandalized. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic […]
Source: The New York Times By JOSEPH BERGER Photo A woman and boy in the Greenville neighborhood in Jersey City, where several dozen Hasidic families from Brooklyn have settled. They are […]
Source: The New York Times By SHANE GOLDMACHER Photo Councilman David G. Greenfield, center, with the City Council speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito, and Councilman Donovan Richards Jr., at City Hall in March […]
Source: Smithsonian Why do people show kindness to others, even those outside their families, when they do not stand to benefit from it? Being generous without that generosity being reciprocated […]
Source: The Guardian BY Ruth Michaelson in Cairo Travellers passing through al-Shohada station are being offered chance to get advice from religious scholars inside booth Clerics wait to answer commuters’ questions inside […]
Source: The New York Times By SOMINI SENGUPTA and HWAIDA SAAD Syrians fleeing their homes on the western frontline of Raqqa in mid-July. Youngsters who have grown up in areas controlled by the […]
Source: Religion News Service By Dave Schechter PLAINS, Ga. (RNS) — We wake at 5 a.m. because we are told everyone in our hotel has come for the same reason — […]
Source: Religion & Politics By Jenna Weissman Joselit Freedom!” cried the man as he drove his car into a six-foot monument of the Ten Commandments in Little Rock, Arkansas, toppling the […]
Source: Reuters By Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has extended by two months the house arrest of Hafiz Saeed, accused by the United States of masterminding 2008 attacks on […]
Source: https://asiancorrespondent.com/2017/08/really-feel-afraid-indonesias-religious-pluralism-threat-report/#bV2aW5yD0LRZE6hk.97 | By Max Walden AHMADI and Shia Muslims, Christians and other religious minorities are being increasingly targeted by radical Muslims in Indonesia, according to an investigative report by a Christian NGO. Published on Tuesday, the report documents a trip in May by human rights non-profit Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) to Indonesia – the […]
Source: Associated Press By AYA BATRAWY DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia plans to build a “semi-autonomous” visa-free travel destination along its northwestern Red Sea coast where restrictions […]
Source: https://www.maoritelevision.com/news/education/translator-maori-quran-dies | By Leo Horgan, Online News Team The man credited with the first translation the Holy Quran into Te Reo Māori has passed away. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in New Zealand has announced the death of Mr Shakil Ahmad Monir this morning. Born in Monghyr, Bihar province of India in 1932, Mr Monir was a professor […]