Source: Spiegel Philip Bethge/ DER SPIEGEL The world has been without passenger pigeons since 1914. Now, scientists want to bring them back. Geneticist Ben Novak has embarked on the project and has begun collecting passenger pigeon DNA from natural history museums. His “de-extinction” efforts are not without critics. More:
by Ian Cobain The Guardian Although government promised as much as possible would be made public, no date has yet been fixed for publication. An official report into Britain’s involvement […]
By: Geoffrey Aronson for Al-Monitor Posted on April 12. Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. What is known of the initial efforts of the Obama administration’s ideas about constructing a working diplomatic model for peace between Israel and […]
By: Bruce Riedel for Al-Monitor Posted on April 8. As the Syrian civil war gets ever more violent and destructive, there is a big beneficiary: al-Qaeda and its franchise in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra — which is now the fastest-growing al-Qaeda front in the world, attracting fighters from across the Islamic […]
Source: The Economist: HITLER moustaches and swastikas defiling pictures of Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, have become a recurring motif in the iconography of the euro crisis, most recently in Cyprus. Scapegoating is inevitable during financial upheavals, says Marcel Fratzscher, president of DIW Berlin, a think-tank. Germany, he suggests, has […]
By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times April 15, 2013, 11:16 p.m. Researchers say the foreskin can shelter troublesome bacteria, so its removal may bolster the immune system to keep the […]
Source: Huffington Post Follow: Interfaith, Video, 2013 Interfaith Calendar, 2013 Religious Calendar, Holy Days 2013, Interfaith Calendar 2013, Interfaith Festivals Calendar, Religious Calendar 2013, Religious Festivals 2013, Religious Holidays 2013, Religion News Click through the slideshow to see a pictorial religious calendar for 2013 with photographs of celebrations of the […]
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The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: The ExpressTribune By Web Desk / AFP Published: April 16, 2013 PESHAWAR: At least 11 people were killed and 49 injured in a suicide blast in Peshawar near a Awami National Party (ANP) meeting on Tuesday, said officials.The bomb blast took place […]
I WAS in the middle of having Chinese food with my wife and friends yesterday afternoon when we heard the dull and deathly reverb. The water in our plastic cups rippled. We looked at one another, and someone made a joke about that famous scene in “Jurassic Park.” We tried […]
Epigraph: “Do not the disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass, then We opened them out? And We made from water every living thing. Will they […]
Rock-cut tombs in Myra, An ancient town in Lycia, Turkey.
Source: Speaker of the House, US Congress WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced today that they will hold a U.S. Capitol ceremony next month to present Professor Muhammad […]
Source: ET Musharraf nomination papers were rejected from all four constituencies he had applied for. “Yes, his paper has been rejected by the high court. We will file an appeal in the Supreme Court,” Musharraf’s lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri told AFP. Earlier, the High court Rawalpindi bench election tribunal and […]
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Global Post: A tweet by Fox News contributor Erik Rush — that all Muslims should be killed in response to the Boston Marathon bombings — has set off a firestorm of debate on Twitter. The hashtag #muslims was trending as pro- and anti-Islamic voices weighed in. In what was widely […]
Dawn.com: The US Geological Survey said the 7.8 quake struck the slightly populated region. There were no immediate reports of injuries, but the quake was felt as far away as New Delhi and Gulf cities of Dubai and Bahrain. The epicenter was in southeast Iran in an area of mountains […]
Epigraph “We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — it […]
Story Summary Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday defended his country’s controversial nuclear programme while on a tour of west Africa, calling it peaceful and arguing that Tehran has no […]
Story Summary The Seychelles have granted a year’s asylum to the son-in-law of Tunisia’s deposed dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, officials said late Monday. In December he travelled briefly […]