Source: TOI: MANILA: Afghanistan’s first woman governor and a Myanmar civil society organiser, who both helped families displaced by conflict in their home nations, are among five winners of Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize this year. The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation on Wednesday singled out Afghanistan’s Habiba Sarabi, a […]
Source: TOI SOFIA ( BULGARIA): Bulgarian police on Wednesday broke up a blockade of parliament and escorted out more than 100 lawmakers and ministers who had been trapped inside the besieged building for more than eight hours by anti-government protesters seeking to oust the left-leaning government. Police in riot gear […]
Source: TOI RIO DE JANEIRO: Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics packed the beach of Copacabana on Tuesday for the start of a weeklong religious event in Rio de Janeiro that includes gatherings with Pope Francis. Rain clouds cleared in time and pilgrims from around the world waved flags, sang […]
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: As if politics in Washington and the United States isn’t divisive enough, Hindus and Muslims from the subcontinent have brought their decades-old partisan feud to America. A tactically leaked letter by 65 Indian lawmakers, many of them Muslims, to US President Barack Obama, pressing him not to […]
Source: The Local. German police were left speechless at the weekend when they stopped a group of inventive revellers cruising around town in a unique swimming-pool-car of their own creation – sloshing water onto the pavement at every turn. More:
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweden Click HERE for interesting Video. (From minute 20 onwards)
Though the number of Americans who believe that human beings evolved without God’s influence has increased since 2004, the percentage may still prove surprising to some. According to a YouGov poll, only 21% of Americans believe that human beings evolved without the involvement of God, and 25% of those […]
July 23, 2013 – 20:08 After the attack on its Jalalabad office in May, the Swiss-run International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has reduced the scope of its activities […]
JEDDAH: RIMA AL-MUKHTAR Tuesday 23 July 2013 For the fourth year running, the Young Initiative Group (YIG) has been carrying out a Ramadan initiative that revolves around distributing iftar meals to the less fortunate across Jeddah. Young Initiative Group (YIG) is a Jeddah-based volunteer group that has been implementing Ramadan […]
The world’s most elite military special forces met up at a military compound in Jordan to compete in what organizers call “the Olympics of counterterrorism.” Contributing editor to Rolling Stone Magazine Josh Eells was there for the competition, which consisted of 32 teams from 17 countries and the Palestinian territories. […]
Time: Before the last two centuries, royal babies were the dominant players of human history. Their births were auspicious occasions, attended by astrologers and mendicants, court intrigues and elaborate sacrifices […]
todaycatholicnews: By Zoey Di Mauro WASHINGTON (CNS) — Panelists at a religious freedom session on Pakistan called for reform of the nation’s laws, calling the situation for minorities dire. In June alone, 47 religious minorities were killed in Pakistan, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. The victims […]
2 6th April, 1984 –Blackout History of Pakistan, from the very outset, has been blemished by grisly incidents including infamous resolutions, unwanted wars and silly coup d’états. The country is not which our ancestors dreamt of. Extremism turned out to be an undefeatable monster which devoured almost everything leaving the state […]
Huff Post: What is this country coming to? Anyone who pays attention to religion in America can see monumental changes and conflicts affecting the present and looming in the future. And anyone with a smidgen of historical awareness knows that religion has always been at the core of American society. […]
Source: BBC New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has admitted sending explicit messages to a woman, two years after he left Congress over a similar affair. An unnamed woman told […]
Author: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian,The Promised Messiah on: Righteousness, Thinking ill of Others, Arrogance & Universal Compassion Source: Essence of Islam Volume II (Excerpts from the Writings of the […]
Is religion good or evil? Scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins is challenged on whether religion is a force for good or evil in the world. 20 Jul 2013 Watch the video: http://aje.me/R1Ruy7 With the headlines covering fanaticism, fundamentalism, superstition and ignorance, religion is getting a bad press these days. And […]
Source: Forbes Here’s what your stockbroker and the media aren’t telling you: the world is more indebted now than it was at the height of the financial bubble in 2007. That’s right. Despite the extraordinary government intervention of the past six years. Despite continuing optimism of a recovery. Despite the […]
source: HBR.org Six Fundamentals Every Entrepreneur Needs to Succeed by Bob Diener | 11:00 AM July 19, 2013 As an entrepreneur who founded and runs a successful and growing business, Getaroom, I see many entrepreneurs with great ideas but no clue how the business will be profitable. For certain websites […]
Source: nation.com.pk BEIRUT – Shelling destroyed the centuries-old mausoleum of a companion of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in the central city of Homs on Monday, a monitoring group and activists said. […]