Four years after Switzerland officially joined the European Union’s borderless Schengen zone and the Dublin accord on asylum, it has been revealed that costs of Swiss membership are almost 14 times what were originally mentioned. In June 2005, the cabinet announced that the costs “would amount in the coming years […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel granted final approval on Thursday to a plan to build 800 homes near Gilo in occupied East Jerusalem, with construction tenders likely to be published within […]
Quotation from the Wall Street Journal: read full article here: “According to a new national survey of China’s household income, China’s richest 10% control 56.9% of household income and 84.6% […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Several big Wall Street bank CEOs on Thursday urged Congress and President Obama to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” In an urgent letter dated Oct. 18, the Financial Services Forum pressed leaders to “reach a bipartisan deal to avoid” massive tax hikes and across-the-board program cuts that […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Almost 80% of species in Madagascar are unique to the island and are not found else where. As a result this largest island is a witness for evolution, which for our purposes means, a common lineage of […]
Get Up. Get Out. Don’t Sit. By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Just as we were all settling in front of the television to watch the baseball playoffs, two new studies about the perils of sitting have spoiled our viewing pleasure. The research, published in separate […]
Russian TV: The Public Chamber’s resolution on the draft bill on protection of believers’ feelings “does not reflect the community’s opinion,” a senior cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church has […]
Express Tribune: BIRMINGHAM: Malala Yousufzai has come out of her coma and is trying to stand for the first time since the shooting, Express News reported on Friday. Malala, international media said, was now out of danger. The BBC tweeted an update saying: Pakistani teenager #Malala Yousafzai standing for first time since being shot by […]
Source: Asia Times: By Dilip Hiro The United States and Pakistan are by now a classic example of a dysfunctional nuclear family (with an emphasis on “nuclear”). While the two governments and their peoples become more suspicious and resentful of each other with every passing month, Washington and Islamabad are […]
Source: Allafrica.com CHAOTIC situation ensued on Friday afternoon in Mbagala area, Dar es Salaam leading to destruction of three churches, (Anglican, Seventh Day Adventists and Pentecost), vehicles including that of the District Police Commander (OCD) and stealing of church choir musical instruments. The mayhem was reported to have been started […]
Source: TOI: WASHINGTON: At least 20 people have died and another 257 have been infected by the outbreak of deadly meningitis, linked to a contaminated drug, a federal health agency has said. The disease has now spread to 16 States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said, adding […]
Source: TOI KOLKATA: A West Bengal CPM stalwart is on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Days ahead of embarking on Haj, Abdur Rezzak Mollah, credited for sounding an early warning on the Left Front’s disastrous land acquisition policy, insisted his faith in Karl Marx figured way below his absolute devotion to […]
Source: The Local The number of German men getting cosmetic surgery has more than doubled over the past five years, making one in every five patients male, the German association for aesthetic surgery (GÄCD) said on Thursday. Read More:
Source: ET On October 9, 2012, little Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head and neck by a brave and, according to Imran Khan, an ‘ideological’ member of the great TTP, as she travelled home from school in a Suzuki van. Two masked men (which leads one to ask immediately […]
by Dana Al Emam | Oct 18, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — HRH Prince Hassan on Thursday renewed his call for “knowledge societies” to boost intellectual life among youths […]
ARAB NEWS Friday 19 October 2012 JEDDAH: The Car Syndicate has readied more than 20,000 buses to transport 1.7 million pilgrims between Makkah, Madinah and the holy sites during this […]
Gas prices: There’s not much that presidents can do about them GOP nominee Mitt Romney makes sure he gets to make his point even as debate moderator tries to move on. By John W. Schoen, NBC News When you pull up to that gas pump and nearly faint […]
RT: The head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police – the mutawa – has said that there is an urgent need to employ more women in the force. Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh told the official Saudi Gazette newspaper that he hoped a recruitment drive would take place soon. Earlier this […]
Huff Post: by Steve McSwain. I think the thing I find most troubling about fundamentalism, whether in politics or in religion, is the war fundamentalists declare and then wage on almost anyone whose opinion or understanding of truth is different from theirs. In its more extreme forms, fundamentalists take up […]