(Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits tumbled last week to its lowest level in nearly 15 years, adding to bullish signals on the labor market. Though the decline probably exaggerates the jobs market’s strength given a holiday-shortened week, Thursday’s report suggested the economy was […]
Source: BBC By Jonathan Amos, Science correspondent, BBC News The exchange will not happen overnight: the complex logistics involved mean it will be 2017 before the great cetacean is hanging from […]
Prominent Egyptian poet Fatima Naoot is pictured in Cairo in this file photo taken on September 24, 2008. REUTERS/Al Youm Al Saabi Newspaper Prominent Egyptian poet Fatima Naoot is pictured in Cairo in this file photo taken on September 24, 2008. CREDIT: REUTERS/AL YOUM AL SAABI NEWSPAPER RELATED NEWS Egypt […]
Source:ET Zakopane… a picturesque little town at the foot of the Tatra Mountains in Poland and it is Christmas, 1990. An old mate and I used to escape the madness of Christmas in the UK in those days, and take ourselves off for a week somewhere cold, snowy and good […]
Source: ET Governor Punjab Chaudhry Sarwar resigned from his post on Thursday following a conversation with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over statements the governor had made regarding the government’s foreign policy. Sources in the PM House told The Express Tribune the premier had principally decided to remove Sarwar owing to multiple reasons […]
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AFP | Jan 28, 2015 | JORDAN TIMES KOBANI, Syria — Pulverised buildings, heavily armed fighters roaming otherwise deserted rubble-strewn streets: the ferocious battle for Kobani has left the Syrian […]
Skull discovery suggests location where humans first had sex with Neanderthals Skull found in northern Israeli cave in western Galilee, thought to be female and 55,000 years old, connects interbreeding and move from Africa to Europe Human skull found western Galilee Views of the human skull, with missing jaw, found […]
ET: LAHORE: Since 1981, a small 400-square foot house comprising two rooms in Mohalla Dawood Nagar in Jhang tehsil has been designated a ‘national monument’. This is the house where Pakistan’s first Nobel Laureate in Physics Dr Mohammad Abdus Salam was born in 1926. Today marks what would have been Dr […]
Telegraph: Fear of Islam and concern over the “Islamisation” of Europe is not a major motivation for those taking part in a series of protests that have gripped Germany in […]
The Fribourg branch of the conservative right Swiss People’s Party launched an initiative on Wednesday to close down the Centre for Islam and Society, which it suspects will become a […]
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: The illegal construction of madressahs and mosques in Islamabad caused a loss of Rs1.1 billion to the public exchequer. This was disclosed in an audit report of financial affairs of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for the fiscal year 2012-2013 during the meeting of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) […]
Yemen is not Syria. But America’s skewed comprehension of the Middle East has now produced a remarkably similar scenario It’s all about the Saudis. No matter how complex the new Yemeni civil war may appear – nor how powerful the Houthi rebels have become in the capital of Sanaa – […]
muslimsforhumanity.org.uk: Muslim youth from the world’s largest organised Muslim community were hosted at the Houses of Parliament with their charity partners and dignitaries by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon today, to […]
HuffPost Live | By Emily Tess Katz Nicholas Kristof was sitting next to Ben Affleck in October of 2014 as the actor famously sparred with Bill Maher over the principles of […]
Dr. Salam’s Vision for Popularization of Science & its benefit for society By Zakaria Virk, Toronto, Canada “I have spent my life working on two problems. First to discover the basic building blocks of matter. Of the two passions of my life the second has been to stress […]
29 January 1926 – 29th January 2015 Dr. Albert Einstein and Dr. Abdus Salam – A comparison Einstein was born on a Friday on 14th March 1879 in Ulm Germany. Dr Salam was born on Friday on January 29, 1926 in Jhang, India. Einstein belonged to a small community of […]
Published on Aug 13, 2014 Here’s Bart Ehrman’s Freedom From Religion Foundation Lecture in Raleigh, NC in 2014. At the end I included a short interview I did with him […]
Epigraph: The Originator of the heavens and the earth! How can He have a son when He has no consort, and when He has created everything and has knowledge of […]
Source: The daily Beast. “Our God wins!” Who do you think made this statement on Saturday in the hopes of rallying a group of religious fundamentalists? A. The leader of ISIS; B. A Yemeni militant commander; C. A radical Islamic cleric; or D. Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal. The correct […]