(Reuters) – The government will face a major test on whether it has the capacity to govern when it faces big tax and budget decisions at the end of the year, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday. Before 2013, the country will be forced to deal with the […]
Source: Wired.com By Robert McMillan Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure is growing so fast that it’s silently becoming a core piece of the internet. That’s according to an analysis done by DeepField Networks, a start-up that number-crunched several weeks’ worth of anonymous network traffic provided by internet service providers, mainly in North […]
Source: NY Times. A Web site that promised to connect people with much-needed jobs during the recession was actually a means to steal the applicants’ personal information in a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The site, http://www.jobcentral2.net, listed nonexistent jobs and used applicants’ identities to […]
Quoting: Al-Jazeerah Website Synopsis from The American Thinker by James M. Arlandson. This translation of a televised conversation reveals a rare glimpse into the outlook of Muslim scholars who are concerned about Christianity’s growth. The invited guest is Sheikh Ahmad Al Katani; the president of The Companions Lighthouse for the Science of […]
Ahmadiyya Times: India; Press Statement : New Delhi: Leaders belonging to different faiths praised Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s effort to promote Peace in society during the one day Peace Symposium held here on Saturday. […]
Dawn: By Murtaza Haider: After decades of waging the propaganda war against India for its highhanded treatment of Kashmiris, Pakistan is now the subject of a similar campaign by India […]
Credit: Pakistan Today by Wasim Saroya By:Rabia Ahmed Hundreds of people are killed in the name of religion Many moons ago in a different continent a Pakistani acquaintance asked me, very seriously, whether she should attend the wedding of her friend’s daughter. Let me explain. My acquaintance, her friend and […]
Credit: Spiegel Germany Spanish King Juan Carlos’ recent elephant hunting mishap in Botswana resulted in perhaps the most damaging political photo since US presidential candidate Michael Dukakis was photographed in a tank in 1988. The image depicts the king, a patron of the nature conservancy group WWF, holding a rifle […]
Brussels — China and the European Union Wednesday took their co-operation to a new level with the launch of a “people-to-people” dialogue covering education, culture, youth, research and multilingualism. Read More…
China will send 16 naval ships and two submarines to its first joint naval exercise with Russia, slated to start this weekend in the Yellow Sea, the Ministry of National Defense said on Tuesday. The drill, which Russian authorities said will involve warships cruising near Japanese waters, has rattled the […]
Another 100,000 people may be moved from the area around China’s massive Three Gorges Dam because of landslides and bank collapses, state media say. Read More…
Source: swissinfo.ch Following controversy over the degree and content of sexual education in primary schools, a cross-party committee has launched a people’s initiative on the issue. The campaign, under the […]
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: A Saudi girl won a bronze medal in the European Girl’s Mathematical Olympiad 2012 conducted at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, in the UK. Abrar Al-Sheikh of the Saihat Girls Secondary School in the Eastern Province won the bronze medal on Monday having solved four complex […]
In Amman, activists rally for freedom of Jordanians in Israeli jails Agencies | Apr 17,2012 | Jordan Times AMMAN/RAMALLAH — At least 1,200 Palestinian inmates of Israeli jails began an […]
AP | Apr 17,2012 | Jordan Times TUNIS — The annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Tunisian island of Djerba should be maintained as a symbol of the North African nation’s […]
Lankaweb (Given below is the gist of the speech delivered by Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad Ayaz, O.B.E. at: Peace Symposium organized by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Malta recently.) Dr. Ifthikhar Ahmad Ayaz, OBE 1.(Officer of the Excellent Order of the British Empire) 2. Consul General of Tuvalu Island in the United Kingdom 3. […]
Source: The York Region – If you want to donate blood, you will have a chance at one of the largest single blood donation clinics in Canada, right here in […]
Taken in Silver Springs State Park in Silver Springs, Florida. The color of the water is due to the limestone. This is an unedited photo. It is a magical site to behold.
Dawn.com I’m not particularly interested in the Oscars. Surprising really as I have recently taken to making films myself, but the Oscar winning films are often of little interest (Inception and Inglorious Bastards are rare exceptions). My ears pricked up however, when news trickled through that there had been a […]
Huff Post LONDON — The British Library has paid 9 million pounds (US$14.3 million) to acquire the St. Cuthbert Gospel, a remarkably well-preserved survivor of seventh-century Britain described by the library as the oldest European book to survive fully intact. The palm-sized book, a manuscript copy of the Gospel of […]