Source: ET India has twice made exceptions of not appointing the senior-most lieutenant general for the covet post of chief of army staff in 33 years. This time, the Modi government superseded two lieutenant generals – Praveen Bakshi and Mohamed Ali Hariz – to elevate Bipin Rawat as army commander-in-chief. […]
Joining the ranks of women cabbies in pink scarves you see at Dubai airport, Uber Dubai got its first female limo driver yesterday. The driver Fritzie Castro, 43, a Filipina, has been in Dubai for seven years. She works the 4am-4pm shift, waking up six days a week at 2 […]
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Source: The New Yorker Essays by Toni Morrison, Atul Gawande, Hilary Mantel, George Packer, Jane Mayer, Jeffrey Toobin, Junot Díaz, and more. A DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION By George Packer Four decades […]
Source: Motto By Amanda MacMillan Acupuncture may help babies who cry too much, according to a new study published in the journal Acupuncture in Medicine. Infants with colic—crying for more than […]
Source: NPR Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says that for Mormon women living in 19th century Utah, “plural marriages” were empowering in complicated ways. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is […]
Source: The New York Times By LONNIE ALI On an afternoon in 1958, near the shopping district at Walnut and Fourth Streets in Louisville, Ky., Thomas Merton was moving about […]
Source: The Guardian By Helen Davidson Anti-racism campaigners have called for the return of an Australia Day billboard in Melbourne which was taken down after the company allegedly received threats over […]
Source: Associated Press By BRIAN ROHAN CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have placed one of the country’s all-time greatest soccer players on a terror watch and no-fly list, over accusations […]
Source:Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s foreign minister said Wednesday that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is expected to call for a halt to violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya […]
Source: The Seattle Times A homeless man suspected of setting fire to a Bellevue mosque early Saturday morning was charged with second-degree arson Tuesday by the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s […]
Source: The Guardian By Ryan Schuessler When Alyssa Haughwout heard the news that Donald Trump had become the president-elect of the United States, her first thought was about the century-old mosque […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Elyse Wanshel Associate Editor, Trends, The Huffington Post The American Muslim Community Center in Orlando, Florida, has converted an old doctor’s office into a free clinic […]
Source: BBC By Leo Kelion Technology desk editor Scientists have built a DNA-analysing smartphone attachment that is a fraction of the cost of lab-based kit. The creators of the phone-powered […]
Source: BBC By Simon Copland 18 January 2017 This month Finland is embarking on a radical economic experiment. Its government is giving 2,000 people free money for two years, guaranteeing […]
Source: BBC Rescuers have removed three bodies from a hotel engulfed by an avalanche in central Italy as a desperate search for up to 35 other people continues. Heavy snow […]
Source: Time By Justin Worland “We have one last opportunity to greatly reduce or even eliminate the human threats to primates and their habitats” Nearly two-thirds of primate species face the […]
Source: NPR By ZAHRA NOORBAKHSH When I was a kid, Mom used to say, “You know you’ve become an infidel when you forget the Fatihah.” The Fatihah is the preamble to […]
Source: RNS By Rahuldeep Singh Gill (RNS) Republican South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will be a rare woman on Donald Trump’s Cabinet-level team, and one of the few persons of color. […]
Source: Associated Press By MATT VOLZ Today HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Orthodox Jewish rabbis said Wednesday they will counter white supremacists’ harassment of the Jewish community in the Montana town […]