Global migrants: Which are the most wanted professions?
Source: BBC The most wanted professions? Who benefits and why? How it’s worked out Around the world, there are a number of professions in high demand from the pool of […]
Media Release – Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Applauded for Message of Peace at the Silver Jubilee Conference in Auckland
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of New Zealand’s Silver Jubilee celebration held at the Mt. Eden War Memorial Hall, Auckland on Sunday 24th March 2013 was a huge success, graced by […]
Cyprus controls expected to hit foreign transactions
(Reuters) – Cyprus is expected to stop people taking their money out of the country but will not restrict dealings at home as it tries to avert a run on its banksafter agreeing a tough rescue package with international lenders. Cypriots have taken to the streets of Nicosia in their […]
Mindfulness Improves Reading Ability, Working Memory, and Task-Focus
Source: Science Daily If you think your inability to concentrate is a hopeless condition, think again — and breathe, and focus. According to a study by researchers at the UC Santa Barbara, as little as two weeks of mindfulness training can significantly improve one’s reading comprehension, working memory capacity, and […]
Islam and the British Dream: A Response to David Goodhart
David Goodhart in the Daily Mail On 24th March 2013 David Goodhart wrote a piece in the Daily Mail titled, “A mega mosque in a suburb that was 90 per cent white 30 years ago and the polite apartheid dividing Britain.” [1] In the article he stated that “for many of the white […]
Missing skull mystery: Key clue to man’s evolution shipped to US
Source: ET PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: A key clue in unlocking the mysteries of the evolutionary path of modern man — the Sivapithecus Indicus fossil skull, which was discovered in Pakistan’s Potohar plateau and went missing in 1996, had been shipped to the United States under a secret deal. The revelation was […]
Irish Catholics continue to flee the church
Global Post: BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Malachi O’Doherty says his nieces and nephews are helpless at funerals. Raised without religion, they are flummoxed by the practices and customs that accompany a Catholic ritual. Though he himself left the church as a teenager in the 1960s, he’s ambivalent about the loss […]
Holi-Festival Of Colors
Source: Huff Post, by Jahnabi Barooah. Holi (also known as Dol Jatra, Basantotsav) is the Hindu festival of colors. It is celebrated at the end of the winter season, on the last full moon day of the lunar month Phalguna. In 2013, Holi will be celebrated on March 27. Holi is observed with great fanfare by Hindus […]
Muslim convert quits Catholic Church, says it’s too weak against Islam
Washington Post: VATICAN CITY — A high-profile Italian Muslim who converted to Catholicism and was baptized by Pope Benedict XVI announced on Monday (March 25) that he will leave the church to protest its soft stance against Islam. Egyptian-born Magdi Cristiano Allam, 61, a prominent journalist and outspoken critic of […]
Egg-cellent idioms for Easter – it’s no yolk
Source: The Local As Easter approaches and Germany’s supermarkets are filled to the brim with holiday-themed chocolate, we at The Local put our heads together and came up with a list of appropriate egg idioms for your egg-ification. More:
North Korea Shuts Last Remaining Hotline to South
Source: NY Times: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea cut off the last remaining military hotlines with South Korea on Wednesday, accusing President Park Geun-hye of South Korea of pursuing the same hard-line policy of her predecessor that the North blamed for a prolonged chill in inter-Korean relations. More:
‘I Saved the Country’
Source: Spiegel: Many believe that Mali’s de facto leader Amadou Sanogo thrust the country into a deep crisis when he staged a coup a year ago. But that’s not how he sees it. In a SPIEGEL interview he says he helped a sick, old regime die, ushering in a new […]
Carla Bruni says Sarkozy charges are ‘painful’
Source^: TOI PARIS: Carla Bruni said the charges faced by her husband and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Sarkozy in connection with a probe into illegal party funding were “painful” for her and her family, local media reported today. “It’s painful to talk about it and equally painful to […]
Funds for the military
Source: ET For many years now, we have been hearing the valid complaint that nearly one-third of the federal budget is taken up by military spending while vital needs like health and education receive only a minuscule amount of money. Now, we find out that the military is swallowing up […]
Punjab interim CM: Najam Sethi’s name approved
Source: ET. LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday approved the name of journalist Najam Sethi for the Punjab caretaker chief minister slot, Express News reported. Hours before the matter would have gone to the Election Commission of Pakistan for a final solution, the PML-N, after a grand review meeting […]
New Book: ‘Muslim Secular Democracy’
MARCH 26, 2013 BY REZA JAVAHERI Muslim Secular Democracy: Voices from Within Edited by Lily Zubaidah Rahim (University of Sydney) Published by Palgrave Macmillan March 20, 2013 Description: Muslim Secular […]
Robert Fisk: Lebanon is like a Rolls Royce with square wheels… it has a lot that’s worthy of praise but it doesn’t run so well – If no agreement is reached on a new election law parliament will be crushed
The prime minister has resigned, there’s no government to speak of, there are further street battles in Tripoli, the threat of more kidnappings. Lebanon, as we used to say in the civil war, returns to normal. And in some ways, it’s true. Lebanon is always living through the greatest crisis […]
Rumors galore as Bilawal leaves for UK at crucial election time
ISLAMABAD: ARAB NEWS Wednesday 27 March 2013 Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Zardari will not be leading the party’s election campaign as party officials confirmed his departure for London […]
Jordan will continue to stand up to all Israeli schemes — King
by Mohammad Ghazal THE JORDAN TIMES DOHA — His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday said that the international community is responsible for restoring the trust between the Palestinians and the […]