NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The unemployment rate fell to 6.7% in December — the first time it’s been below 7% in five years. But the drop was for all the wrong reasons. The rate fell because many people got fed up, stopped looking for work and dropped out of the labor […]
The Jakarta Globe: To fix something, we must first admit that it is faulty, because we don’t fix that which isn’t broken. So when Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali says […]
CTV: A chart illustrating what people in Muslim countries think women should wear in public is being met with both fascination and derision. The chart was created by the Pew […]
By Saeed Qureshi The assassination of the Superintendent of Police, Chaudhry Aslam, a vanguard and fearless CID police officer fighting against terrorism and lawlessness, through a huge bomb blast, reinforces the gnawing fear that the outlaws were still organized and possess the means and network to put up a defiant […]
Source: USA Today President Obama heard from congressional lawmakers Thursday about possible changes to government surveillance programs, and he’s on track to unveil his plan in the next two and […]
York University professor who refused student’s request to be separated from female classmates broke ‘obligation to accommodate’: officials Republish Reprint- National Post Toronto Tristin Hopper | January 8, 2014 | Last Updated: Jan 9 7:40 AM ET More from Tristin Hopper | @TristinHopper http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/01/08/york-university-professor-who-refused-students-request-to-be-separated-from-female-classmates-broke-obligation-to-accommodate-officials/ After refusing to honour a male student’s […]
Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany Lead article collected by Rafiq A. Tschannen, Associate Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Germany Adds Lessons in Islam to Better Blend its Melting Pot By ALISON SMALEJAN. 6, 2014 […]
PARIS: A French magazine alleged Friday that Francois Hollande routinely drives through the streets of Paris on a scooter to spend the night with his mistress, raising concerns for the […]
By Maximilian Popp Spiegel.de The greatest threat yet to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan comes from a former ally. Muslim preacher Fethullah Gülen and his influential followers seem determined to accomplish […]
STORY SUMMARY While Afghanistan and Iraq were both messes which Obama’s predecessors got the country into, former Pentagon chief Gates, who served under six presidents, chastised the Democrat leader for dithering on troop surges and overall strategy. The ramifications of over a decade of bad U.S. decisions are still being […]
HONG KONG (CNNMoney) By Charles Riley and Feng Ke China is poised to become the world’s top trading nation, a position long held by the United States. China reported Friday […]
http://mancunianmatters.co.uk: Islam is officially Manchester’s fastest growing religion and is expanding at more than double the rate of Christianity, MM can reveal. University of Manchester data analysed by MM revealed that […]
Nail Art Nail Art or NakhaChitraKala (Finger nail sculpted art technique) is an ancient Indian art. In Nakha Chitra an artist uses his thumb and finger nails to emboss images by moving the paper in between nails of his thumb and finger. In most of the art forms, the surface […]
Russia Today: Vsevolod Chaplin maintains that gay relations between men pose a threat to the whole of society, but left it for the people to decide on the possible punishment […]
ASHRAF PADANNA: ARAB NEWS Published — Thursday 9 January 2014 Descendants of Tipu Sultan, who ruled most of the southern parts of India and died fighting the British in 1799, […]
STORY SUMMARY Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday that nuclear talks with world powers had revealed U.S. enmity toward the Islamic state. Khamenei was speaking hours before talks […]
NATE RAYMOND AND DAVID BRUNNSTROM Published — Friday 10 January 2014 NEW YORK/WASHINGTON D.C.: The Indian diplomat whose arrest and strip-searching in New York caused a major rift between India […]
Epigraph: I have created men high and low, only to worship Me. (Al Quran 51:56/57) The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles for interfaith tolerance among the Abrahamic […]
By Ahmed Khan: He received his BSc in Computer Science from University of Maryland Baltimore County and works as an IT Consultant in Oshkosh. Originally Published in The Northwestern Imagine going on a 12-hour flight not knowing that one of your tweets has gone viral, and when you reach your destination, you find […]