Source: Pew Research Center BY MICHAEL LIPKA Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. The growth and regional migration of Muslims, combined with the ongoing impact of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other extremist groups that commit acts of violence in the name of […]
Source: BBC Dolly the sheep’s “siblings” are generally healthy, a study has shown, providing hope that cloning can yield animals free from degenerative illness. The first mammal to be cloned […]
Source: BBC An 84-year-old priest was killed and four other people taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France. The […]
Source: BBC By Tom Bonnett “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” It’s a phrase loved by linguists to show how a sentence can be read in […]
Source: BBC By David Robson A few years ago, Anna Katharina Schaffner became the latest victim of the exhaustion ‘epidemic’. It began with a kind of mental and physical inertia […]
RT: British Muslims are the most generous charity-givers, according to the UK’s Charity Commission, which says Muslims gave about £100 million to charities over the month of Ramadan alone. The […]
By: Muniba Saleem, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Faculty Associate at the Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan On the morning of June 12, as details emerged from […]
Source: TOI NEW YORK: If you want to see a tall population of men, go to the Netherlands. Tall women? Latvia. And in the United States, which lags behind dozens of other countries in height, the average for adults stopped increasing about 20 years ago. That’s the word from […]
Source: TOI LONDON: A woman in the UK has filed a court case against her neighbours for cooking spicy food which she says waft out “pungent toxic fumes”, causing her “respiratory problems” as well as choking. Joanna Louise Cridlin, an animal rights campaigner, is suing her neighbours’ landlord Viridian Housing at […]
Source: The Daily Beast Tuesday night will bring a pivotal moment of the presidential race when the mothers of black men and women who have been killed by gun violence or in police custody will takecenter stage at the Democratic National Convention. This night may not only further humanize an […]
Source: The Daily Beast. Two hostage-takers armed with knives were killed in France early Tuesday after they captured several people during Mass in a church in the small town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy. Police told Reuters that one civilian was killed—an 86-year-old priest who is reported to have had his […]
Source: The Local Yusra Mardini has been nominated for the team of Refugee Olympic Athletes at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. To her, though, this tournament may seem like one of her lighter challenges. More:
Source: The Local A doctor has died after being shot at a Berlin hospital, Berlin police said on Twitter on Tuesday. The incident took place at the Benjamin Franklin Hospital in the Steglitz district of Berlin at around midday. By shorty after 2.30 pm Berlin police announced via Twitter that the […]
Source. The Local Federal investigators have taken over the case looking into the bombing in Ansbach on Sunday that killed the attacker and left 15 other people injured, four of them seriously. It takes a particular type of crime to go to federal prosecutors. The knife attack in Reutlingen which […]
Pakistan’s 15-year-old record-breaker struggles to find university place July 21, 2015 | by Rabwah Times | 6 The brightest 15-year-old in the world can’t find a place at university because she’s too young. Sitara Brooj Akbar moved from Rabwah, Pakistan to the UAE last year after breaking international records in passing examinations. She is the […]
Huff Post: Dear Friend, I write this article with a hint of melancholy, for looking outwards at the world the disharmony and disunity that surrounds us is vast, and threatens to engulf us all. Human beings are inherently good, however when faced with threats or terror or fears, it brings […]
First Lady Michelle Obama’s powerful speech endorsing Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Source: CNN By Sunlen Serfaty and Eric Bradner, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) Michelle Obama […]
Senator Al Franken mocked Donald Trump’s Trump University in his speech to the Democratic National Convention. Subscribe to TDC for full 2016 election coverage: https://www.youtube.com/TheDailyConve…
Guardian: In the last year, there has been growing unease around the government’sPrevent strategy. The UN special rapporteur, along with human rights groupsand the government’s own independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, have voiced serious concerns. MPs and peers from the joint select committee on human rights have also called for […]
Source: Huffington Post By Maxwell Strachan; Senior Editor, The Huffington Post Michael Jordan, the basketball great who faced criticism in the past for his unwillingness to wade into politics, has […]