Iftar in Taif belongs to the outdoors
TAIF: MOHAMMAD MURAD ARABNEWS Sunday 5 August 2012 Due to the nice weather, even though it rains sometimes, people of Taif and nearby cities are flocking to open areas to […]
SR 51 m raised to save 2 youths from execution
RAFJA/MADINAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 5 August 2012 A Saudi philanthropist has donated SR 17 million to save a Saudi man from execution. The unidentified donor contributed to a campaign to pay off the diya (blood money) to help save Sameh Al-Rowaily, who was sentenced to death for killing a Yemeni […]
Girls are more than equal in Jordan: Girls take top spots in Tawjihi summer session results
by Laila Azzeh JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Jordan’s young women made a strong showing in the General Secondary Education Certificate Examination (Tawjihi) summer session, with girls dominating the lists of […]
Christian pilgrims pray for peace in Ajloun (Jordan)
AJLOUN — Hundreds of Christian worshipers converged on Saint Elias Church in Ajloun, 70km northwest of Amman, on Friday to perform pilgrimage. The pilgrims attended a religious mass and prayed […]
Earth to Mars rover, Curiosity: Have you landed? – Extreme Engineering Put To Test
Curosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror On Sunday night, millions of miles away, a nail-biter of a landing will be executed—or not—on Mars. The Mars rover, Curiosity, which has been traveling to the distant planet for the past eight-and-a-half months, will land on the red planet by remote control. To stick the […]
Russia’s largest Muslim region to clamp down on extremism
RT: The legislature of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan gathered in an unprecedented session to take measures against violent extremism. The move came two weeks after terrorists attacked top Muslim clerics in the region, killing one and wounding another. The session was called in the middle of the parliament’s vacation period, […]
Our ‘reactive’ extremism
The Express Tribune: Khaled Ahmed When Muslims fly into rage and become destructive, it is never supposed to be original behaviour. We announce that our extremeaction has been caused by the injustice and violence of someone else. Therefore, our extremism is not original; therefore, we are not to blame for […]
Ancient chocolate discovered in Mexico
RT: It’s a good thing one of our ancestors was too lazy to do the dishes: A group of archaeologists in Mexico has just discovered traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate left on a plate excavated in the Yucatan peninsula. It’s the first time researchers have come across ‘antique’ chocolate residue on […]
Craving Energy and Glory, Pakistan Revels in Boast of Water-Run Car
Source: NY Times ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In a nation thirsting for energy, he loomed like a messiah: a small-town engineer who claimed he could run a car on water. The assertion — based on the premise that he had discovered a way to easily split the oxygen and hydrogen atoms […]
Bangladesh: Refugee Aid Discouraged
Source: NY Times. By Reuteres The government told three international aid agencies on Thursday not to help thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have been fleeing into Bangladesh to escape violence in neighboring Myanmar. The announcement, directed at the aid agencies Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Muslim Aid and Action […]
A Hilarious 15 Year History Of Wall Street
Source: Business Insider. It’s been a rough summer on Wall Street — the LIBOR scandal, JP Morgan’s trading loss, Knight Capital’s trading error… Must we go on? But it’s important to put all that in perspective. Compared to the last 15 years on Wall Street, this is a cake walk. […]
Strawberry extract protects skin from UVA rays
The Times of India: Strawberry extract added to skin cell cultures acts as a protector against ultraviolet radiation as well as increasing its viability and reducing damage to DNA, a […]
48 pilgrims snatched in Damascus
Source: Bangkok Post Forty-eight Iranian pilgrims were kidnapped from a bus in the Syrian capital on Saturday, their embassy’s consular chief in Damascus told Iran’s state television. “Armed terrorist groups […]
A capital crisis
Media Takes Aim at Jerusalem by Rabbi Shraga Simmons Jews have experienced repeated attempts to obliterate Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the Jewish people. On the Jewish calendar, this […]
China: Muslim Fasting Discouraged
Several local governments in the western region of Xinjiang have ordered Muslim restaurants to stay open during the holy month of Ramadan and are telling civil servants and students to continue to eat and drink during daylight hours, when Muslims generally fast. Ramadan began on July 20. A notice on […]
‘Blade runner’ makes unprecedented Olympic debut
Source: CNN Oscar Pistorius, a South African double-amputee nicknamed the “Blade Runner,” made an unprecedented Olympic debut Saturday, finishing second in his 400-meter qualifying heat. With a time of 45.44 […]
Jos Arch Bishop visits Mosque …Urges Muslim-Christian unity
Written by Onimisi Alao, Jos Friday, 03 August 2012 05:03 The Catholic Archbishop of Jos, Most Rev. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama yesterday made a case for unity and peace among Christians […]
UK: Pakistani parents found guilty in ‘honour killing’ of teenage daughter
Pakistani parents found guilty in ‘honour killing’ of teenage daughter Published on Friday August 03, 2012 http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1236647–pakistani-parents-found-guilty-in-honour-killing-of-teenage-daughter Martin Rickett/AP A British court found that Iftikhar (above) and Farzana Ahmed, both originally from Pakistan, suffocated their 17-year-old daughter, Shafilea, in 2003. They were ordered Friday to serve a minimum of 25 […]
Solar village shines In India as power grid collapses
Source IBNlive Meerwada: Life in the remote village of Meerwada used to grind to a standstill as darkness descended. Workers downed tools, kids strained to see their schoolbooks under the faint glow of aged kerosene lamps and adults struggled to carry out the most basic of household chores. The arrival […]