U.S. home prices posted year-over-year gains for the fourth consecutive quarter as prices rose 10.2% in the period ending in March, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller national index. The index posted its highest annual returns since 2007, according David Blitzer, head of S&P’s index division. But the strong gains over the […]
Daily Times: YANGON: Myanmar opposition leader and pro-democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi condemned on Monday a policy by ia district government to limit Muslim Rohingya families to two children in an effort to curb their population growth. The two-child policy dates back to 1994, but it does not appear […]
Dawn: Sumaira Jajja: “It seems like time has stopped. I never thought I would bury my grandson, the same child who held my fingers as a toddler and learnt to […]
Persecution of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Dozens of police men armed with semi-automatic weapons and guns were seen rushed to the scenes of the blood bath. They were seen huddled together either behind a wall or some other cover, without firing a single bullet. … And then to cap it all […]
Source: TOI SYDNEY: Victims of child sex abuse by Catholic clergy in Australia and their supporters on Tuesday called for the resignation of the church’s top ranking cardinal, saying they were unimpressed with his apology. Sydney Archbishop Cardinal George Pell on Monday appeared at a Victorian state government inquiry into […]
SOURCE: REUTERS BAIDA, Syria (Reuters) – Awakened by the sound of gunfire, Ahmad could hear the armed men knocking on his brother’s door, shouting insults and calling the family “dogs”. Ahmad’s sister-in-law said the gunmen told her husband to “bow to your god, Bashar” — the Syrian president. She and […]
Source: Asia Times: By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR – Peshawar is breathing a little easier. Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif’s offer of talks with the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has rekindled hope for peace in this Pakistan border town. The TTP have had a long run of terror in Pakistan’s northwestern Federally […]
Source: The Huffington Post Chelsea Clinton has taken on a new role at New York University — or has she? As The New York Post reported Tuesday, the former first […]
Source: WSJ via Wasim Sr By AYAAN HIRSI ALI I’ve seen this before. A Muslim terrorist slays a non-Muslim citizen in the West, and representatives of the Muslim community rush to dissociate themselves and their faith from the horror. After British soldier Lee Rigby was hacked to death last week […]
AFP | May 27, 2013 | 23:24 JORDAN TIMES RAMALLAH — The Palestinian presidency said on Monday that it would not make “political concessions in exchange for economic benefits” announced the day before by US Secretary of State John Kerry. “The Palestinian leadership will not offer political concessions in exchange […]
By Kay Campbell | kcampbell@al.com HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Terry Holdbrooks Jr., 29, wears the beard of a bald Amish guy, the tattoos of a punk kid, and the twitchy alertness […]
May 28, 2013 – swissinfo.ch WASHINGTON/CANBERRA (Reuters) – Designs for more than two dozen major U.S. weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers, a U.S. report said on Monday, […]
by Hani Hazaimeh | May 27, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES DEAD SEA — The Arab education system needs an overhaul to bridge the gap between education outputs and the needs of local labour markets, Jamie McAuliffe, president and CEO of Education for Employment (EFE) has said. Interviewed by The Jordan […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 27 May 2013 Saudi Sheikh Mohammad Al-Arifi has been banned again from entering Switzerland and all European Union countries, according to a Swiss official. Jourg Walban, […]
Source Herald Scotland THE SON of a leader at one of Scotland’s biggest mosques has been identified as the victim of a brutal gang shooting in Edinburgh. Tributes were paid […]
By Henry Dimbleby, Guardian News Service 2013 Mint tea only really appeared on my gastronomic radar about 10 years ago, during a research trip to the Egyptian city of Alexandria. […]
NY Times: NEW DELHI — When night falls in this gritty capital, gangs troll the darkened streets looking for easy prey among a portion of the city’s vast homeless population; thousands have been rounded up and carried off in trucks in recent years. Many cows are being stolen from the […]
Washington post: In the hush of quiet prayers, in a bugler’s strains of taps, in a widow’s vigil at her husband’s grave and a president’s caution not to forget a war that has not ended, the country on Monday remembered its fallentroops. The grieving and the reverent arrived early at Arlington National […]
Shaheen Sehbai Tuesday, September 26, 2006 From Print Edition THE NEWS INTERNATIONAL The NEWS: WASHINGTON: President Pervez Musharraf launched his memoirs here on Monday revealing that before Kargil, India was about to attack Pakistan, Dr AQ Khan may have leaked Pakistan’s nuclear secrets to India, he (Musharraf) never conceded all […]
Guardian: A York mosque dealt with a potentially volatile situation after reports that it was going to be the focus of a demonstration organised by a far-right street protest movement – by […]