Historical Facts You Don’t Know

1. In ancient Rome the punishment for killing one’s father was to be drowned in a sack along with a viper, a dog, and a rooster. The reason behind this? I have no idea. 2. Alexander the Great (pictured) invented a spying technique still used today: he had his soldiers […]

Palestinians isolated and short of funds — Fayyad

By MICHAEL STOTT AND SAMIA NAKHOUL | REUTERS ARABBEWS RAMALLAH, West Bank: Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Tuesday the Palestinians may have “lost the argument” on the international stage for an independent state but cautioned that continued Israeli occupation was unsustainable. In an interview with Reuters, Fayyad struck a […]

‘Moving The Mountain’

Huff Post Excerpt from Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero To A New Vision Of Islam In America (Free Press, May 2012) I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in […]

China to start issuing e-passports

Source: China Daily China’s e-passports will better protect citizens’ personal data and national security, said customs officials on Tuesday, as authorities nationwide geared up for the introduction of the new high-tech system. The 48-page travel document, which will be issued starting May 15, is fitted with a chip on the […]

A Regime’s Tight Grip on AIDS

Source: The New York Times   HAVANA — Yudelsy García O’Connor, the first baby known to have been born with H.I.V. in Cuba, is not merely still alive. She is vibrant, funny and, at age 25, recently divorced but hoping to remarry and have children. Her father died of AIDS when she was […]