Wife-hitter sentenced to reading

Husband will take a test later to see what he has learned about relating By Habib Toumi Bureau Chief GULF NEWS Manama A Saudi national found guilty of hitting his wife has been sentenced to reading two books that explain relations between spouses in Islam. He will later sit for […]

Protection of refugees an Islamic duty, says UNHCR

By RIYADH: WALAA HAWARI, ARAB NEWS STAFF The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) ended a two-day international ministerial conference on refugees in the Muslim world in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, yesterday. The conference focused on the refugee situation in the Muslim world. The […]

How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Drives Up Health Costs

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/05/12/how-employer-sponsored-insurance-drives-up-health-costs/ In 1942, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Economic Stabilization Act, which exempted health insurance from its mandated wage controls: the original sin of America’s flawed health-care system. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A new study in Health Affairs is attracting attention for its depiction of how powerful hospitals are extracting “steep payment increases” from insurers. But what […]