The 70-day torch relay ends tonight when the Olympic cauldron is lit during the London 2012 opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium. Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/olympics/906468-olympic-torch-receives-royal-treatment-on-final-day-of-epic-journey#ixzz21pxBX7ty
South Korea claimed the first world records of London 2012 on Friday morning with a stunning display in the men’s archery ranking round at Lord’s. Im Dong-hyun, who is registered as blind, broke his own 72-arrow mark of 696 by three points and was also part of a record in […]
Guadian: 3m ago Taxi Taxi drivers in London have brought forward their protest over their exclusion from Olympic lanes after police imposed restrictions. It will now take place at 2pm instead of […]
PARIS, TEXAS — This charming, droopy city needed new fire trucks not long ago, but, like many American municipalities today, couldn’t necessarily afford them. The mayor, a small-government Republican, dithered: […]
M Zafar Iqbal JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian zookeepers have moved an orangutan out of visitors’ sight so she’ll no longer smoke lit cigarettes people regularly throw into her cage. […]
Express Tribune: by Ayesha Siddiqa: These days, the social media is abuzz with discussion on Myanmar. Interestingly, it is not even a constructive discussion but one which is meant for […]
by Ariane Gigon in Zurich, swissinfo.ch For many deceased, the cemetery is no longer their “final resting place”. Scattering ashes out in the open, burying the urn in a forest […]
JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — A satellite channel run and hosted by fully-veiled presenters aims to break down the barriers for women in niqab who until the revolution that brought Islamists […]
AP | Jul 27, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES BEIRUT — In the recent sectarian violence in Syria, some observers see a grim pattern: Alawite fighters from President Bashar Assad’s minority sect, they say, are trying to carve out a breakaway enclave for themselves by driving out local Sunnis, killing entire […]
JEDDAH: NADEEM AL-HAMID ARABNEWS Friday 27 July 2012 Oud incense and oil as well as eastern perfumes are on most Saudi families’ shopping lists. Burning oud, or agarwood, is an […]
by Avi Spiegel, co-authered by Adina Bathzniki, HUFFINGTON POST Imagine this scenario: a group of women in southern California ask their local YMCA for an extra swim class. The YMCA would have to stay open a bit later than usual, but it happily obliges. It is summer, and the women, […]
Source: Huff Post By Chris Lisee (RNS) A 600-foot footrace was the only athletic event at the first Olympics, a festival held in 776 B.C. and dedicated to Zeus, the […]
By Paul Kokoski Envy is at once a passion and one of the capital sins. As a passion it consists in a sort of deep sadness experienced in the sensitive part of our nature because of the good we see in others. This sensitive impression often produces a feeling of […]
Metro News: LONDON – A competitor from Saudi Arabia, who is one of the country’s first female athletes ever selected for the Olympics, will not be allowed to wear a headscarf during competition, the International Judo Federation said. President Marius Vizer ruled that “according to the principles and spirit of […]
Toronto Sun: TORONTO – Three liquor stores in the GTA recently sold booze to a 14-year-old boy whose identity was hidden because he was wearing a full-length burka and face veil at the time. The teenager, clad in an Islamic female’s traditional garb of a burka, headscarf and facial covering, […]
By Marwan Boltrosh Source: Kuwait News Agency LONDON, July 22 (KUNA) — Ramadan atmosphere for Arab and Muslims living throughout Europe is different, compared with the annual spiritual experience at home, with many sensing distress for performing annual religious services far from their loved ones. However, the city of London […]
Source: Teheran Times TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday that Syria is heading for tranquility as the army is gradually suppressing the armed insurgent groups. “Enemies imagined that they can create a vacuum in the management of the country by explosions in Damascus but the […]
Source: Albwaba Ramadan is Kareem (generous) for some, but Stingy for Somalia Inevitably during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, the Somali plight- the distress of a fellow […]
by Matthew Barakat, THE REPUBLIC, Columbus, Indiana ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A nearly five-year legal saga will conclude Thursday for Falls Church resident Jamal Abusamhadaneh when he takes the oath of citizenship at a federal courthouse, after a federal judge ruled that immigration authorities wrongly drew sinister conclusions about aspects of […]
by Sophie Douez, swissinfo.ch Moves by two Swiss hospitals to suspend the practice of circumcising boys in the wake of an adverse court ruling about the procedure in Germany have sparked heated debate amongst legal experts in Switzerland. The children’s hospitals of Zurich and St Gallen announced they had suspended […]