Source: TOI Police said the gunman, 62-year-old William Spengler, shot at the arriving firefighters, probably with a rifle from atop an earthen berm. WEBSTER, New York: A former convict set a house and car ablaze in his lakeside New York state neighborhood to lure firefighters then opened fire on them, […]
Source: ET About a week ago, a 20-year-old by the name of Adam Lanza walked into a school in Newtown, Connecticut — a small town a few hours northeast of New York City. In the next 30 minutes, Lanza shot and killed 27 people before finally killing himself. Of those […]
The Inquirer: The crowd was very unruly. This wasn’t your ordinary crowd because some of them were drunk as it was Christmas Eve, while others possibly high (on drugs),” Dolot said. He said the crowd was the primary reason why it took firefighters long to put out the fire. He […]
Source: Clean Technica Utility companies can benefit considerably from the utilization of concentrating solar power (CSP) and available energy storage methods, a new study from the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has found. Solar thermal power plant tower by afloresm (some rights reserved) A CSP that possesses a 6-hour […]
Source: CPI Financial Mauritania is working to develop an Islamic interbank market. Several Islamic banks are already being established. The Central Bank of Mauritania (BCM) recently completed a study on the potential development of a local Shari’ah-compliant securities market. BCM conducted this study with the technical support and expertise of […]
Source: DNA The U.N. General Assembly expressed serious concern on Monday over violence between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar and called upon its government to address reports of human rights abuses by some authorities. The 193-nation General Assembly approved by consensus a non-binding resolution, which Myanmar said last month […]
The United States Army will be deploying troops to nearly three-dozen African nations in the coming year. Soldiers based out of Fort Riley, Kansas’ 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division will begin training in March 2013 in order to prepare for a project that will send troops to as many as […]
By By Gary Peterson / Contra Costa Times Posted on November 19, 2012 Wearing Army boots, Army camouflage pants and an “Iraq Veterans Against the War” T-shirt, Emily Yates worked […]
By Rod Nordland and Jawad Sukhanyar New York Timesmercurynews.com KABUL, Afghanistan — A female police sergeant shot and killed a U.S. civilian adviser at police headquarters in Kabul on Monday, Afghan police officials said, breaking a relative lull in the so-called insider killings that have strained the relationship between Americans […]
By Patrick French in Liberty or Death(excerpts) French writes: Given that Amritsar could not become part of Pakistan, the adjoining district of Gurdapur (which was only 51 per cent Muslim) should […]
Washington Post: DAKAR, Senegal — After prayers at the mosque, Ibrahim Lo is off to do some last-minute Christmas shopping. Soon he is eyeing the rows of dolls wrapped in […]
Express Tribune: TEL AVIV: Fifty members of an Indian community believed to be descendants of one of the lost tribes of Israel arrived on Monday in the Jewish state, completing their immigration. Linking up with family members who have already settled in Israel, they are among the first wave of the […]
Source: The Hindu Op-Ed by Haroon Habib December is a landmark month for Bangladesh. It is the month of the liberation of the country from Pakistan in 1971. And it is also a reminder of a great national tragedy — it was during the same month that year that the […]
……. “How do Jews celebrate Christmas?” …………. Were I to answer the “What do Jews believe” question today, I would give a very different response – one that speaks to […]
Margareth S. Aritonang, The Jakarta Post, A new survey conducted by the Indonesia Survey Circle (LSI) found that the majority of people are tolerant and concerned about worsening discrimination against […]
WASHINGTON — Maya MacGuineas has been ringing alarms about the nation’s growing debt for 15 years, imagining a day when a president and a Congress might finally work together to curb deficit spending. After watching President Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner once again come close to agreeing on a […]
LONDON: Pakistani native and singer of ‘One Pound Fish’ Shahid Nazir will come to Pakistan on December 27. According to a UK paper, immigration officials told the novelty artist and […]
A conference of religious leaders is set to meet in January in Afghanistan specifically to publicize the fact that suicide bombing violence is not in the Quran. By Scott Peterson, Staff writer / December 24, 2012 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR KABUL, AFGHANISTAN Suicide bombers in Afghanistan have shown little restraint: Wedding […]
By Laiq Ahmed Atif, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Malta The world is full of life and human beings are the best of creation. It is also natural that every life […]
AFTER reading a post about Israel’s aggressive attacks in Gaza on the BBC Facebook page, I took a look at the comments. There were many voicing anger over the grave situation. Not much to my surprise, I found a comment (of a Muslim) condemning the killing of Palestinian Muslims by […]