How Your Morning Coffee Might Slow Down Aging
Source: Time By Alice Park To the age-old question “Is coffee bad for you?”, researchers are in more agreement than ever that the answer is a resounding “no.” A new […]
Apple, Facebook and 95 others join legal fight against Trump travel ban
Source: CNN By Jethro Mullen America’s biggest tech firms have stepped into the legal fight against President Donald Trump’s travel ban. A total of 97 companies — including Apple (AAPL, […]
Trump Has Gone Too Far
Source: The Daily Beast John Yoo, who once advised President George W. Bush to take “vigorous, perhaps extreme, measures to protect the nation” in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, wrote in an opinion column in The New York Times on Monday that he believes President Trump’s […]
Becoming Swiss: ‘Where do I sign?’
NATURALISATION QUESTIONS By Thomas Stephens FEB 6, 2017 (Keystone) Swiss citizenship is highly sought after – and correspondingly hard to get. swissinfo.ch looks at how to get the naturalisation ball rolling, who is eligible for the fast track and how much it could all cost. I want to become Swiss. […]
Government doesn’t investigate human rights claims against Saudi Arabia before selling arms
Exclusive: Officials only come to an ‘overall judgement’ on whether weapons sold will be used to breach laws Joe Watts Political Editor @JoeWatts_ The Government does not make judgments over whether countries like Saudi Arabia have violated international humanitarian laws in specific cases before granting arms exports to them. Ministers have admitted they […]
Trump can’t put Lindsay Lohan off Islam: Actress quotes Prophet Muhammad on Instagram
© Provided by Albawaba.com Take that, Trump! (File photo) American actress and humanitarian Lindsay Lohan has continued to raise speculations about her conversion to Islam on Monday, after quoting the central figure of Islam, Prophet Muhammad. The 30-year-old starlet shared one of the Prophet’s pearls of wisdom in an Instagram […]
Martin Schulz Accuses Trump of being ‘un-American’
Source> The Local Martin Schulz. Photo: DPA Martin Schulz, the Social Democrat who is to take on Angela Merkel in September’s national election, has said that Donald Trump has not acted like an American since becoming US President. “What Trump is doing is un-American,” Schulz told the Funke media group. […]
Trump beheading Statue of Liberty
Source: The Local The Der Spiegel cover image being used during a protest in Denver, Colorado, USA. Photo: DPA German news magazine Der Spiegel sparked controversy Saturday with a cover depicting US President Donald Trump holding the severed head of the Statue of Liberty in one hand and a bloodied […]
Trump: ‘This guy is a fraud’
Source: CNN Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders accused President Donald Trump of falling short of commitments to middle-class voters, pointing to his Cabinet and senior advisers’ ties to Wall Street. “This guy is a fraud,” Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” Sunday. “This guy ran for president […]
7% of Catholic priests abused children, commission finds
Source: CNN After years of investigations and hearings, the sheer scale of child sexual abuse within the Australian Catholic Church has been revealed. Between 1950 and 2015, 7% of Australian priests were accused of abusing children, according to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Over 40% […]
UK mosques open their doors as Jeremy Corbyn sends message to Trump
Source: The Guardian As hundreds of Islamic centres across the country welcome visitors, Labour leader warns against ‘demonisation’ of Muslims Jeremy Corbyn has challenged the “demonisation” of Muslims and sent […]
Punjab polls: Pakistani bride votes for the first time in Qadian
Source: The Times of India By Yudhvir Rana| TNN QADIAN: A Pakistan-born, 35-year-old woman who married a man living in Gurdaspur’s Qadian town in 2003, was able to vote for the time ever in her life when Punjab went to polls to elect its next legislative assembly on Saturday. Though Tahira […]
Orwell’s 1984 is Realised in Pakistan: The Unremitting Plight of Ahmadi Muslims
Source: http://www.abc.net By Tahir Nasser Tahir Nasser is a physician, author and regular contributor to Religion News Service. Before leaving office, U.S. President Barack Obama commuted the jail sentence of […]
Religious Freedom Advocates Urge Trump to Sign Executive Order
Source: The Daily Signal By Fred Lucas Conservatives and religious groups are calling on President Donald Trump to stand firm on a draft executive order asserting the federal government recognize religious […]
Trump aide repeatedly dodges question on whether US President believes Islam is a religion
Source: Sunday Express Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Trump, repeatedly deflected questions when asked if the US President considers Islam a genuine religion. During an interview on NPR, reporter […]
Your All-Day Guide to Better Sleep
Source: Time By Abigail Abrams When people say they want to get healthier, they often focus on just two things: eating better and exercising more. But sleeping well is also a […]
How Trump’s Presidency Could Become a Dividing Line in the Middle East
Source: Time By Jared Malsin / Cairo Tens of thousands of visas were revoked last week by President Donald Trump’s executive order than bans the citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations from […]
There is one quality that builds trust and loyalty
Source: BBC By Renuka Rayasam 31 January 2017 About two years ago, when Pink Jeep Tours decided to expand, it investigated exactly what set it apart from the competition and […]
The hidden messages of Peter Pan
Source: BBC By David Robson 2 February 2017 A couple of years ago, the neuropsychologist Rosalind Ridley was browsing through a friend’s bookshelf when she came across JM Barrie’s original […]
Orwell’s 1984 is Realised in Pakistan: The Unremitting Plight of Ahmadi Muslims
Tahir NasserABC Religion and Ethics 3 Feb 2017 The 1984 anti-Ahmadiyya law in Pakistan has resulted in a litany of tragic absurdities, including the recent arrest and imprisonment of an 80-year-old bookstore owner.CREDIT: DANIEL BEREHULAK / GETTY IMAGES Tahir Nasser is a physician, author and regular contributor to Religion News Service. Before leaving […]