Diet, exercise, and stress management counseling may be the key to managing diabetes and helping patients feel optimistic about their disease, confirms a new study at Bastyr Center for Natural Health in Kenmore, Wash. Researchers compared two groups: One group of 369 adults with type 2 diabetes received conventional treatment […]
The Jordan Times ZARQA — A team of archaeologists from a Romanian university have uncovered the ruins of an ancient city dating back to the early Bronze Age in the Masoum neighbourhood of Zarqa. Head of the Zarqa Antiquities Department Romel Gharib said the 80-dunum city contains a number of […]
By RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARABBEWS The Muslim world will have its own social networking site this summer. SalamWorld, a cleaner, Islam-centered alternative to Facebook, aims to reach 50 million […]
By JEDDAH: BADR AL-QAHTANI ARAB NEWS Prominent women campaigners and human rights activists called for harsh punishments, including naming and shaming, for those convicted of domestic abuse following the issuance of a draft law aimed at the protection of domestic abuse victims by the Shoura Council on Sunday. “One year […]
Politics in Pakistan is a dangerous and dirty business dominated by big landlords and other groups known more for their penchant for violence and terror than their desire to bring […]
(Reuters) – U.S. consumer sentiment rose to its highest level in more than four years in early May as Americans were upbeat about the job market and buying plans improved, a survey showed on Friday, offering an encouraging sign for the economic recovery. Separate data earlier in the day showed […]
Source: CNN The trial of admitted Norway mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was disrupted Friday when a brother of one of the 77 people killed in last summer’s massacre threw […]
German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble says if the Greeks don’t like the rules they can leave, this is unfair and it won’t work. There is a ritual in European politics […]
Source: Time Magazine For centuries, Native Americans have been on the receiving end of some of the worst atrocities committed on U.S. soil, driven from their homes and isolated on […]
by Fabius Maximus Summary: This article by guest author Franz Gayl (Major, USMC, retired) looks ahead beyond Israel’s current moment in the sun. They face a divided Arab people and even more fragmented Islamic societies, which they overawe by their massive military strength — exercised in the shadow of the […]
One of the video’s made at the Union Square “Muslims for Life,” blood drive, by Ahmad Chaudhry and Salaam Bhatti of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, was nominated as a Finalist by CNN iReports. Only 36 out of over 15,000 videos were chosen as finalists. It was nominated in the “Interview” category. […]
Jakarta Globe: Illiterate Farmer Faces 10-Year Sentence after Taking Piece of Wood (He) should have stolen a few million dollars or killed an Ahmadiyah instead…. what a screwed place this is becoming- Says DrDez An illiterate farmer never imagined he would have to spend months in a police detention center […]
Source: Point of no return I bring you notice of a series of lectures starting on Monday 14 May 2012, (17:30-19:00h at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London – Khalili lecture theatre): The opening lecture is titled:” How Islam Saved the Jews”. Professor David J Wasserstein, a professor at […]
Huff Post These words of prophetic wisdom were delivered, last week, to me at the very height of my own crisis, from a very close friend and mentor, a spiritual warrior, who, as of late, has endured many valleys of his own, yet still continues on his daily trek toward […]
Express Tribune: by Fahim Younas: As a rejected son, how do you celebrate Mother’s Day? Who enjoys the breakfast tray? Who receives the flower bouquet? That’s my story. But it’s […]
eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk: The event began with a 10k run by serious competitors, but was followed by 2,500 fun-runners turning up, some in fancy dress, to raise up to £500,000. It was […]
Russian TV: As Tehran finally makes efforts to rehabilitate its nuclear program with the West, a new piece of counter-evidence emerges: a CGI picture of an allegedly Iranian nuclear blast […]
Asia Times online: By Sudha Ramachandran BANGALORE – Kashmir’s Grand Mufti Mohammed Bashir-ud-din is stirring the communal and sectarian cauldron in the valley again. Barely four months after he issued […]
Sara Blakely’s story is inspirational. The 41-year-old Floridian began her working life as a door-to-door fax-machine salesperson. Then one day she looked in the mirror — but not at her face. She realized that she needed underwear that didn’t show lines and held in her wobbly bits. This led to […]
By RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARAB NEWS STAFF Foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) met here yesterday to draw up the agenda for the consultative meeting of […]