NAJAF, Iraq — Hussein Al Kharsan kneels, bent over a giant sheet of paper, laboriously writing the words of Islam’s holy book, the Koran, in beautiful Arabic script with a traditional wood and feather pen. The 25-year-old Iraqi aims to take an unusual path to fame: writing the longest copy […]
Jordan Times AMMAN — The Delegation of the European Union to Jordan has announced that all consulates of Schengen states in Amman will start applying a new procedure for visa applications as of May 10, according to a statement from the delegation. Consular sections will collect biometric data, including fingerprinting […]
Source: The New York Times Fifteen million babies are born prematurely each year, and the United States fared badly in the first country-by-country global comparison of premature births, which was released Wednesday by the World Health Organization and other agencies. Although American hospitals excel at saving premature infants, the United States is similar […]
France24. François Hollande has won France’s presidential election, giving the country its first Socialist president in almost two decades, exit polls showed Sunday. According to Ipsos polling institute, the left-wing candidate took 51.7% of the vote to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy’s 48.3%. Celebrations are underway at the iconic Place de la Bastille […]
Rfi. ince 1958 only Giscard d’Estaing has failed to win a second term, apart from Georges Pompidou who he died in office. Sarkozy, whose popularity slumped while he was in office, staged a determined comeback campaign, reducing Hollande’s lead over him in the polls. But he lost when it counted […]
April 24, 2012 Rfi. France. Emerging from a meeting with colleagues on Monday, Socialist party leader Martine Aubry told journalists that Hollande had “only one strategy: to get France back on its feet, to put justice back at the centre of all our decisions and unite the French, in other […]
Paris (CNN) — Francois Hollande, the winner of Sunday’s presidential runoff, thanked his supporters in a victory speech and promised to be a president for all of France. “Many people […]
Credit BBC News Socialist Francois Hollande has been elected as France’s new president. He got about 52% of votes in Sunday’s run-off, according to early projections, against 48% for centre-right […]
Medical News Today A new study provides a long-sought explanation for the beneficial fat-fighting effects of black pepper. The research, published in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, pinpoints piperine – the pungent-tasting substance that gives black pepper its characteristic taste, concluding that piperine also can block the formation of […]
ScienceDaily (May 3, 2012) — A Queen’s University researcher has created a Star Trek-like human-scale 3D videoconferencing pod that allows people in different locations to video conference as if they are standing in front of each other. “Why Skype when you can talk to a life-size 3D holographic image of another […]
the Atlantic There are two general ways to think about the problem of misogyny in the Arab world. The first is to think of it as an Arab problem, an issue of what Arab societies and people are doing wrong. “We have no freedoms because they hate us,” Eltahawy writes, […]
Source: Yahoo News KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City woman who converted to Islam in 2005 said she was harassed for years at AT&T, and that the abuse […]
This web page is dedicated to an open analysis and review of the Cherem Rabbeinu Gershom and the issue of polygamy for Orthodox Jews. All discussion is based on the following premises: G-d is the creator G-d gave to the Jews the entire Torah, both oral and written Chazal, our […]
01 May 2012 Source: BBC A former Archbishop of Canterbury has attacked religious laws in Saudi Arabia, saying they prevented non-Muslims from worshipping and were “profoundly unjust”. Lord Carey of […]
by Taylor Luck | May 05,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Hundreds of activists hit the streets in some urban centres in the country demanding an end to the Kingdom’s […]
by Rajive Cherian | May 05,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Sleeba Kattumangattu Cor-Episcopa, affectionately dubbed “Abunaan Sleeba” or “Father Sleeba”, has been shepherding flocks of religious tourists to the region for the past two decades. After organising more than 1,000 tours of the holy land, Sleeba told The Jordan […]
France 24. Centrist also-ran presidential candidate François Bayrou announced late on Thursday that he will be voting for socialist nominee François Hollande in the election’s second round on Sunday.Some French columnists put this surprise about-face – for centrists traditionally throw their support rightward – down to political expediency rather than […]
Rfi. France. Voting in the deciding round of France’s presidential election started on Saturday on a group of islands off Canada. Mainland France votes Sunday with Socialist challenger François Hollande showing a narrow lead in the polls over incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. Voting started at midday Saturday in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, […]
Dawn: RAWALPINDI: A man booked for being allegedly involved in the murder of former minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti, was acquitted by an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday. In the ATC-II […]
Express Tribune: by Khalid Ahmad: Pakistan is about to face the second ‘withdrawal’ blowback from Afghanistan. The first, after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union, came under General Ziaul Haq, whose […]