Two Words: Driverless Boats
Source: Huffington Post By Casey Williams Editorial Fellow, The Huffington Post Remote-controlled ships could hit the high seas within a decade. While they might end up putting sailors out of a […]
How GPS Is Messing With Our Minds
Source: Time By Greg Milner Greg Milner is the author of Pinpoint. Reliance on GPS erodes our ability to build our own cognitive maps “Your GPS is WRONG,” the sign proclaims. […]
The Fasting Diet Improves Your Mood, Sex and Sleep
Source: Time By Mandy Oaklander A study on the diet found many benefits Cutting calories is nobody’s idea of a fun time. But the perks of fasting go far beyond a leaner body, finds a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. People who ate a lot less for two years found they […]
Here Are the Three Planets Most Likely to Harbor Alien Life
Source: Time By Jeffrey Kluger There shouldn’t be a reason in the world for you to care about the star known as Trappist-1. Located a comparatively close 40 light years from […]
The amazing cases of ‘super-strength’
Source: BBC By Adam Hadhazy 2 May 2016 It’s a common urban legend: a mother lifts up a car to save her screaming child pinned underneath. And every now and […]
How to Build a Global Islamic Finance Centre
Ambrose 2nd May 2016 Current Islamic Finance Hubs Lack Clustering Critical Mass Article Overview [hide] 1 Current Islamic Finance Hubs Lack Clustering Critical Mass 1.1 What Islamic Finance Hubs can Learn from London’s Success and Tokyo’s Failure 1.2 Existing Islamic Finance Hubs 1.3 The Key Stages of Development 1.4 Development […]
The Sexual Misery of the Arab World
Lire en français (Read in French) | اقرأ المقال بالعربية (Read in Arabic) Contributing Op-Ed Writer By KAMEL DAOUD FEB. 12, 2016 Photo CreditEiko Ojala ORAN, Algeria — AFTER Tahrir came Cologne. After the square came sex. The Arab revolutions of 2011 aroused enthusiasm at first, but passions have since […]
Black in Algeria? Then You’d Better Be Muslim
By KAMEL DAOUD MAY 2, 2016 CreditSébastien Thibault ORAN, Algeria — For a few years now, families of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been gathering at major street crossings in the large cities of northern Algeria. They come to beg for alms, wearing grotesque outfits: oversize veils for the women, […]
Entries for Islamic Economy Award open
Submissions for the eight categories of the 2016 award close July 31, 2016 Published: 16:45 May 3, 2016 Staff Report Dubai: Submissions opened on Tuesday for the Islamic Economy Award that will be awarded at the Global Islamic Economy Summit in October, the Dubai Islamic Economy Development Centre said in […]
Jamaica: Two Christian missionaries killed
Two American missionaries have been found dead in a rural area of the island of Jamaica that has long struggled with violent crime. The men’s battered bodies were found hidden in bushes in separate areas of the same parish in Port Maria. The men were identified as Randy Hentzel, 49, […]
What is earwax for?
Source: BBC By Jason G Goldman 3 May 2016 Whales never clean out their ears. Year after year their earwax builds up, leaving behind something of a life history told […]
Labour has secretly suspended 50 members for anti-Semitic and racist comments
Source: Telegraph By Kate McCann, senior political correspondent Labour has secretly suspended 50 of its members over anti-Semitic and racist comments as officials struggle to cope with the crisis engulfing the party. […]
Britain won’t leave Europe, but watch it collapse from a distance:
Source: AT OXFORD–As it has for over 500 years, the Magdalene College Choir sang the Hymnus Eucharisticus from a tower high above this university town on the first day of May, followed incongruously by a dirty Elizabethan ditty about nymphs in Spring. An Anglican vicar blessed the bedraggled revellers crowding the surrounding streets. Most […]
How Moqtada al-Sadr Could Take Down Iraq’s Government
Source: The Daily Beast BAGHDAD, IRAQ — Hussain Jassim refused to leave the Green Zone, once considered the impenetrable citadel at the heart of Baghdad, until his leader Muqtada al-Sadrordered him to do so. “We have entered parliament and we have broken it’s prestige in front of people because they […]
Muslim’s Labour Party Candidacy Shapes London Mayoral Race
Source: The New York Times By STEPHEN CASTLE LONDON — The son of a London bus driver, Sadiq Khan has had a remarkable rise into the upper echelons of British […]
Will France Stop Muslim Soccer Players From Praying?
Source. The Daily Beast NICE, France — Wearing Muslim head scarves in schools has been banned all over the country since 2004. But will the mayor of Nice get away with telling Muslim football players they can’t pray on the field? Many in Nice question why Mayor Christian Estrosi is […]
Police in Bangladesh Detain 3 in Killing of Hindu Tailor
Source: The New York Times By JULFIKAR ALI MANIK and GEETA ANAND DHAKA, Bangladesh — The police detained three men early Sunday in connection with the killing of a Hindu tailor, the latest in a series of hacking deaths in the country. Islamist militants are believed to be responsible for […]
On his own …Mu
The King had allowed a pet elephant loose near Nasrudin’s village, and it was destroying crops. The people decided to go in a body to Tamerlane to protest. Nasrudin, because he had been known to amuse the King at times, was appointed leader of the delegation. So overawed were they […]
Europe’s First Islamic Constitution? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Source: The Daily Beast Calls by a top member of the ruling party of Turkey for an Islamic constitution to replace the secular basic law in place in the country, a NATO member and crucial U.S. ally, have been rejected by politicians from all stripes, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, himself […]
Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94
Source: The New York Times By DANIEL LEWIS APRIL 30, 2016 The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and poet whose defiant protests helped shape the tactics of opposition […]