Bird traps hundreds in Cologne train overnight
Source: The Local A bird is being blamed for trapping hundreds of passengers in a train for most of Monday night – stuck in a tunnel while en route from Frankfurt to Cologne. More:
Life of a Female Muslim Physicist, who worked in the discovery of Higgs Boson
Dr. Mansoora Shamim, is a scientist at CERN (European center for nuclear research) in Geneva Switzerland. Dr Mansoora was one of the thousands of scientists who worked on the multi-billion dollar […]
Pakistan: A vanishing state
Source: ET Both empires and states fail or collapse. Examples include the Roman, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Mughal and British empires. From the recent past, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Sudan are the best examples. Professor Norman Davies, in his book Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations […]
Crystal Island, the World’s Biggest Building
Source: General Knowledge, Education Website. Foster + Partners have released designs for the biggest building ever built: Crystal Island in Moscow will be 450m high, cover an area of almost half a million square meters and contain a total floor area of 2.5 million square meters.The Crystal Island has already […]
Ahmadis and Elections in Pakistan: A Continued Denial of Human Rights
Persecution of ahmadies:A Brief on Ahmadis and Elections in Pakistan Ahmadis remain deprived of voting in national elections at all levels ELECTORAL SYSTEM is basic to any election. In Pakistan, it has a history. Since the inception of Pakistan in 1947 to the time of General Zia-ul-Haq, all the national elections […]
Pakistan: Ahmadiyya minority in danger
Culture and Belief: The urgent call is initiated. The Asian Human Rights Commission (Commission Asian Human Rights) reported on its website that Ahmadi family was brutally tortured by fundamentalists with their accomplices. The mullahs (fundamentalists) were accompanied by a sixty people from various terrorist organizations in Pakistan and invaded the house of the president of the […]
The top 9 world leaders of 2012: Imran Khan makes it
Global Post: It wasn’t all bad, and it certainly wasn’t all good, but 2012 was a big year for news makers and game changers. From the man who won one […]
Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ‘No’
Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think. by Robert Lanza, MD CHIEF SCIENTIFIC […]
Camp Nama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret US base in Baghdad: Detainees captured by SAS and SBS squads subjected to human-rights abuses at detention centre, say British witnesses
British soldiers and airmen who helped to operate a secretive US detention facility in Baghdad that was at the centre of some of the most serious human rights abuses to […]
Will Non-Muslims Return to Turkey?
By: Orhan Kemal Cengiz for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse. Posted on April 1. Omer Celik, minister of culture of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, has made repeated calls recently in which he invited non-Muslims to come back to Turkey. In his most recent TV interview on March 29, Prime […]
Ben Ali Funds: ʻNot a question of money but of dignityʼ
by Daniele Mariani, swissinfo.ch Tunis Apr 1, 2013 – 13:25 The funds of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali frozen in Switzerland may soon return to Tunisia. But it […]
Historic Damascus synagogue looted
ALBERT AJI | ASSOCIATED PRESS ARABNEWS Tuesday 2 April 2013 DAMASCUS: A historic Jewish synagogue in Damascus has been damaged and looted as clashes have consumed the surrounding neighborhood, a […]
Pakistan’s Ambitious Program To Re-Educate Militants
Source: NPR via Wasim Srroya Enlarge image Pakistani men who worked for the Taliban attend a class at Mishal, an army-run rehabilitation center in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, on July 5, 2011. This and similar centers are trying to re-educate men taken in by the Taliban, who ruled Swat before the […]
Burmese Muslim school hit by deadly blaze in Rangoon
A fire at a Muslim school in the Burmese city of Rangoon has killed 13 children, officials say. Police blamed an electrical fault for the blaze. Most of the children […]
Pakistan: (Punjab) Sethi orders removal of provocative posters, banners
LAHORE: Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi has directed that the ban on wall-chalking should be implemented strictly and posters and banners creating hatred and provocation removed immediately throughout the province. He expressed these views while presiding over a meeting regarding security and law and order at Chief Minister’s Secretariat […]
UK: Does religion still have a place in today’s politics?
The recent row between Churches and state over welfare policy shows how the power of the clergy is waning, argues Paul Goodman By Paul Goodman The Church’s report was seen […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Delhi Celebrates MKA Platinum Jubilee
All praise belongs to Allah(swt)! Ahmadiyya Muslim Community celebrated platinum jubilee of establishment of it’s youth wing Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya(MKA) on 31st March 2013. Event comprised of sports competitions and competitions of religious nature.
Cologne divided over Jewish artefacts
Source: The Local An archaeological dig in the western Germany of Cologne has unearthed myriad traces of daily life in one of Europe’s oldest and biggest Jewish communities. Yet opinion […]
Scientists set sail in search of ‘fire ice’
Source: The Local A research vessel carrying German and Taiwanese scientists set sail for waters off the island’s southwestern coast over the weekend in search of methane hydrate, a potentially […]
Baribie as Rolemodel for girls? Life-Size ‘Dreamhouse’ Sparks Berlin Controversy
Source: Spiegel International A life-size Barbie Dreamhouse is set to open in Berlin in May, and leftist activists are up in arms. They plan to protest the opening to draw […]