Pic: Above the world in 90 days
China building world’s tallest skyscraper — 220 storeys — in just three months Read more
Holy miscalculation: The entire Christian calendar is based on a sixth-century monk’s ‘mistake,’
The National Post: The entire Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, according to Pope Benedict, who claims in a book published Wednesday that Jesus was born several years earlier […]
Weighing up the “unusual” Swiss justice system
by Clare O’Dea, swissinfo.ch No other European country sends as few convicted violent criminals to prison as Switzerland. With the penal code due to be reformed, questions are being raised about whether the criminal justice system is serving the country well. Take a sample case of aggravated bodily assault. On […]
On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic
Source: Spiegel Jens Spahn is a conservative parliamentarian. He is also gay. In a SPIEGEL interview, the 32-year-old describes how this has informed his political career and assesses how far Germany has come on civil rights for gays and lesbians. More:
Africa Check – for the Lies & More Damn Lies
Source: All Africa.Com President Jacob Zuma will have South Africans believe the gap between rich and poor is narrowing. Tim Harris, the DA’s shadow minister of finance, said the gap is widening and the president is talking nonsense. Who’s right and who’s wrong? Thanks to a new fact-checking service called […]
Pakistan ID Cards Remove Ghost Voters, Target Poor for Aid
Source: Jakarta Globe. Islamabad. Elderly men wait patiently, carefully combing their hennaed beards, while a guitar-playing student entertains the long queue of Pakistanis lined-up to be photographed, fingerprinted and questioned inside a crowded office in the capital Islamabad. This is the unlikely setting for possibly one of Pakistan’s few success […]
Jamming cell phones will not stop us: Taliban spokesman
Source: Dawn.Com Undated photo shows Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan.—File Photo KHYBER AGENCY: A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has claimed that suspending mobile phone services in the country will not hold back the militant group from carrying out its activities. More:
Egypt braces for rival rallies after Morsi ‘coup’
Source: TOI Morsi issued a decree that shielded his decisions from judicial review. CAIRO: Supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi called rival demonstrations on Friday after the Islamist leader assumed sweeping powers in what critics dubbed a “coup”. Morsi’s supporters, led by the Muslim Brotherhood which backed him […]
Forgetting Fukushima India Pursues Massive Nuclear Expansion
Source: Spiegel: dapd Local fisherman protest the Russian-built nuclear plant in Kudankalam, India. The 2011 disaster at Japan’s Fukushima plant led many countries to turn away from nuclear power. But a growing population and rising economy has prompted India to massively expand its nuclear program — even in the face […]
World’s biggest flower blooms in Switzerland
Russian TV: The world’s largest flower has blossomed in Basel. The monster stinky plant, which boasts the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, is 2.27 meters tall and blooms for […]
How To Teach Evolution To Creationists: Evolution and Faith can be Compatible
Scientific American: John Horgan: I’m teaching Darwin again this semester, in two separate courses, and I’m confronted with a familiar dilemma: How should I respond to students who reject evolutionary […]
For Israel, Gaza Conflict Is Test for an Iran Confrontation
NY Times: WASHINGTON — The conflict that ended, for now, in a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel seemed like the latest episode in a periodic showdown. But there was a second, strategic agenda unfolding, […]
Every Friday with Khalifatul Ahmadiyya
Source: http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/why-muslim-lawyers-need-a-petition/ …continued from last week. The moral degradation of those who raised obscene allegations against the Holy Prophet and produced or worked for this film can be accessed from media reports regarding them. The main person behind the film is said to be a Coptic Christian living in the […]
Help Stop the Fighting in Gaza and Middle East
By Zahir Muhammad Mannan “And when your Lord says to the governing Angels: “Surely I am going to establish in the earth a meek representative. They passionately say: “If You establish (as a leader) by honoring one (person or people) in the (earth) from among the disorder that exists there, […]
Invasive ladybirds ‘could fight malaria and TB’
The Local The amazing defensive chemical make-up of Asian ladybirds which enables them to dominate European species could be used to fight malaria and TB in humans, a German scientist says. More:
Suu Kyi’s comment on Rohingyas surprising
Source: The Daily Star We have learnt from newspaper reports that Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on November 13 described the violence in west Myanmar between Buddhists and Muslims as a “huge international tragedy” and said illegal immigration from Bangladesh had to be stopped. Dhaka has expressed surprise at […]
Nationwide march in India against Muslim hunt in the name of terrorism
Submitted by admin4 on 23 November 2012 – 2:36pm By TCN News Source: http://twocircles.net/2012nov23/nationwide_march_against_muslim_witch_hunt_name_terrorism.html New Delhi: Various organizations led by Students Islamic Organisation of India(SIO) organized a nationwide protest to stop illegal detention and arrest of innocent Muslim youth in the name of terrorism. A march to Parliament was organized […]
Indian Madrassas refuse to teach math, science
Source: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2012/11/21/Indias-madrassa-schools-refuse-to-teach-math-science/UPI-97291353500451/ Special Report by UZMI ATHAR, Written for UPI BANGALORE, India, Nov. 21 (UPI) — Shabana Rizvi, 17, nervously shakes her legs as she talks. She is overshadowed by her eldest brother, Meer, and appears apprehensive to voice her opinion in his presence. She glances in his direction after […]
Islamic banking not possible in India: Reserve Bank Of India
Source: http://www.firstpost.com/economy/in-absence-of-seperate-law-islamic-banking-not-possible-rbi-532683.html Reserve Bank of India Governor D Subbarao on Thursday ruled out introduction of Islamic banking in the country but said other methods for channelising funds based on the principles of Islamic law can be looked at. “Islamic banking is not possible”, he said, adding the central bank could […]