Governments around the world expelled ambassadors and top Syrian diplomats Tuesday in an unusually coordinated blow to Syria’s leaders, after a particularly gruesome massacre in which the United Nations says […]
Soaring property prices have created a generation of “mummy’s boys” with a third of men in their 20s and early 30s now living with their parents, according to official figures. […]
A referendum on Britain’s relationship with the European Union would be “silly” and is only of interest to “a few extreme nationalist politicians,” Kenneth Clarke has said. The Justice Secretary […]
Indonesia’s rise is the big story we’re missing Can Australia handle having a stronger, richer neighbour? AUSTRALIANS see Indonesia today through a kaleidoscope of negative images: Islamic terrorists, people smugglers, […]
The Middle East Monitor: Al-Aqsa Association for Religious Endowment (Waqf) and Heritage has accused the Israeli occupation authorities of planting thousands of fake Jewish tombs around Al-Aqsa Mosque and the […]
PARIS — Data underscoring the depth of Spain’s economic problems dampened investor enthusiasm in Europe, but most stock markets turned positive as Wall Street opened. Spanish retail sales fell in April by a record 9.8 percent from a year earlier, the 22nd consecutive monthly decline, the government statistics institute said […]
A survey shows that young people aspire to a good marriage – so why does the divorce rate continue to rise? By Judith Woods TELEGRAPH CO UK A well-dressed woman […]
Business Insider: Thousands more unemployed people will be forced to work for free or lose their benefits under controversial plans to be announced by the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, as the government is warned its drive to get people back into work appears to be floundering. The […]
RT The world is a dangerous place and needs a dominant US army to keep it in check, presidential candidate Mitt Romney has decreed. If elected, he promised to maintain […]
James Kunstler, Kunstler.com : Way up here in the heartland, far from the craft beer parlors, Facebookstock bucket shops, and gender obsessions of the mythical Urban Edge People, the detritus of your country is […]
London, 28 May 2012: At a dubious ceremony in London in which Pakistan’s Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry awarded himself the International Jurist Award by the International Council of Jurists […]
Daily Telegraph: Over the past three months, Qatar – a state no bigger than Yorkshire – has embarked on the financial equivalent of a £7bn supermarket sweep. It has snaffled […]
May, 2012 Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid[1] is a New York Times Best Seller book written by Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States (1977–1981) and winner of the 2002 […]
by Paul Kokoski, TIME LIVE I commend Muslim protesters for causing Lady Gaga to cancel her Born This Way Ball in Indonesia (“Hardliners rain on Gaga parade”), yesterday. I COMMEND […]
Credit: Pakistan Today via Wasim Sarooya LAHORE – Two female faculty member of Post-Graduate College of Nursing, Birdwood Road, are getting life threats for being “members of the Ahmadiya community”, with religious elements inside the college alleging that the two were preaching their faith inside the college, Pakistan Today learnt on Monday. […]
China’s Communist Party has expelled a once-powerful former railways minister accused of serious corruption, state-run media report. Read More…
RFI: In a crime which calls to mind the film “The Godfather”, a gunman penetrated a hospital bedroom in Bastia in Corsica on Monday and tried to kill restaurateur Olivier Sisti, who was lying in bed trying to recover after a previous attempt to kill him a week ago. Details: […]
Rfi: Possibly the most glamorous local railway carriages in the world started operating on Wednesday between Paris and Versailles. They may look like any old beat-up railway train on the outside but inside they are decorated with reproductions of interiors from the royal Palace of Versailles. More: http://www.english.rfi.fr/visiting-france/20120516-louis-xiv-railway-carriages-take-paris-versailles-line
Source: PressTV, Iran A recent fatwa issued by a Wahhabi mufti calls for destruction of all churches in the Arabian Peninsula. He issued the fatwa in late March 2012 in […]
Arwa Al-Rikabi ARAB NEWS “Islam and Muslims are incompatible with rationality”…Who do you think said this? It sounds like something Geert Wilders (leader of Party of Freedom-Netherlands) or Nick Griffin (chairman of British National Party) would say, but it is the French Orientalist Ernest Renan who declared this in the […]