Forget London: Kenya and others bid for 2024 Olympics
Global Post: Nairobi, Kenya has placed a bid with the International Olympic Committee to host the 2024 games. If they are chosen, Nairobi will be the first-ever African city to […]
Drought, food prices fan fears of new crisis
(Reuters) – Global alarm over a potential repeat of the 2008 food crisis escalated after data showed food prices had jumped 6 percent last month and importers were snapping up […]
Writer Says bin Laden Film Not Politically Motivated
Credit: Jakarta Globe: Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow, center, stands on the set during shooting for her upcoming film about Osama bin Laden in Chandigarh, India, March 1, 2012. Bigelow and cast are in India shooting at various locations over the next few weeks, local media reports. (AP Photo/Anil Dayal) […]
‘Trust No One Over 30!’ Euro Crisis Morphs into Generational Conflict
Elderly Greeks at a political rally: Are older people partly to blame for Europe’s debt crisis? People vs. banks, north vs. south, and rich vs. poor? While all of these conflicts may be real, one of the biggest issues of the euro crisis is rarely discussed: Older people are living […]
Will the ‘Jesus Christ of Politics’ Rise Again?
Credit: Speigel Germany By Hans-Jürgen Schlamp REUTERS Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is seeking the limelight yet again. Silvio Berlusconi had Italy in his grip for two decades before personal and political crises forced him to step aside. Opponents may hate him and supporters may admire him, but one things seems […]
Ghana: Holiday for Mills Funeral – Daniel Nonor
Credit: Allafrica.Com. Former President John Evans Atta Mills addressing Parliament. Government has declared Friday August 10, the day the late President John Evans Atta Mills will be laid to rest a public holiday. The President John Dramani Mahama made this declaration after signing an Executive Instrument to affirm the decision […]
Capital City At Standstill
Credit: Daily Graphic Ghana One of the empty streets in Accra Wednesday Many cities and towns across Ghana came to a virtual standstill Wednesday as the nation mourned the late President John Evans Atta Mills who was laid in state at the Banquet Hall, State House in Accra. In Accra, […]
Is it okay to crack your knuckles and joints?
Source: TOI Is it okay to crack your knuckles and joints or is it detrimental to your bone-health? Debarati S Sen finds out… Vikky is watching television and staples his fingers after every hour, while Sunil periodically cracks his neck muscles by jerking his head to one side and Salim […]
Man orders TV online, gets assault rifle
Soruce: TOI. WASHINGTON: Police in Washington are looking into how a local resident who ordered a color TV set via Amazon.com ended up with a high-powered semi-automatic assault rifle instead. Seth Horvitz, who lives in the northeast quadrant of the US capital, said he contacted police immediately after a parcel […]
FIJI NEWS – Justice Fernando will not hear Qarase’s NLTB Trial
Justice Fernando will not hear NLTB trial Publish date/time: 09/08/2012 [13:10] Print this page Email this page High Court Judge, Priyantha Fernando has today revealed that he will not hear the Native Land Trust Board trial of former Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, former NLTB General Manager, Kalivati Bakani and former […]
Stuxnet, Flame…Gauss: New spy virus found in Middle East
RT: A new virus dubbed Gauss has attacked computers in the Middle East spying on financial transactions, emails and picking passwords to all kind of pages. The virus resembles Stuxnet and Flame malware which was used to target Iran, Kaspersky Lab says. Gauss has infected hundreds of personal computers across […]
All Asylum Claims will benefit from recent UK Supreme Court Decision
All Ahmadi Asylum and Protection Claims will benefit from KM (Zimbabwe) KM (Zimbabwe) v SSHD [2012] UKSC 38 By: Muzaffar Mansoor Solicitor Advocate of Dean Manson Solicitors, 7th August 2012 The Supreme Court of England handed down judgment in the appeal of KM on 25 July 2012 along with a […]
The Condemned: A documentary on Ahmadi persecution in Pakistan
Express Tribune: ‘The condemned’ is an endeavor to capture the persecution faced by the minority Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan – from their eyes. The short documentary is a collection of […]
Were the Sikhs in Wisconsin victims of Christian terrorism?
Source: National Post The killing spree by Wade Michael Page on the Sikh Gurudwara in Milwaukee that left seven dead including Page’s own death in a hail of bullets is an act of Christian terrorism. Page was a member of a skinhead band, End Apathy, that advertised the evils of […]
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Blur Women With Modesty Glasses
JERUSALEM — It’s the latest prescription for extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with the opposite sex: Glasses that blur their vision, so they don’t have to see women […]
New Mauritius Hotels Expects Trading Conditions To Worsen
New Mauritius Hotels Ltd. (NMH), the Indian Ocean island nation’s biggest leisure operator by market value, said its loss widened in the third quarter and expects trading conditions to worsen. The loss increased 33 percent to 177 million rupees ($6 million) in the three months through June from the previous […]
Girl accuses father of waterboarding her
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&contentId=bestoftv/2012/08/09/nr-doctor-dad-accused-of-waterboarding.cnn (CNN) — A Delaware doctor and his wife were arrested this week after their daughter told authorities that she was punished by “waterboarding,” police said. The 11-year-old girl told police that her father, pediatrician Melvin Morse, would hold her face under a running faucet causing the water to shoot […]
Pakistan All set to celebrate Minorities Day: Paul Bhatii
Source: Pakistan Today ISLAMABAD – Minister Incharge for National Harmony Dr. Paul Bhatti has said that arrangements have been finalized to mark Minorities’ Day officially here on Thursday (August 9). He said three to four hundred people of different faiths including parliamentarians, diplomats, religious leaders and general public would participate in the […]
Replace circumcision with symbolic ritual, says Norwegian children’s watchdog
Haaretz: Circumcising boys violates their right to decide over their own body, says children’s watchdog Dr. Anne Lindboe. Norway’s ombudsman for children’s rights has proposed that Jews and Muslims replace male circumcision with a symbolic, nonsurgical ritual. Dr. Anne Lindboe told the newspaper Vart Land last month that circumcising boys […]