http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/worldwide-products-slave-labor_n_1505811.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003 Source: Huffington Post It’s hard to believe, but true: Still today, many everyday products from around the globe are the result of child and slave labor, according to a 2011 report from the U.S. Department of Labor Now thanks to an infographic from theNational Post, we can more clearly see the effects: All […]
http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2012/05/projects-are-the-new-job-inter.html (Source: HBR) MICHAEL SCHRAGE Michael Schrage, a research fellow at MIT Sloan School’s Center for Digital Business, is the author ofSerious Play and the forthcoming Getting Beyond Ideas. Resumes are dead. Interviews are largely ineffectual. Linked-In is good. Portfolios are useful. But projects are the real future of hiring, especially […]
(AFP) / 10 May 2012 Khaleej Times The Palestinian national carrier, grounded since 2005, has resumed operations with flights between Egypt’s El-Arish and Amman, its director general told AFP on Thursday. “We started yesterday from Amman to El-Arish and from El-Arish to Amman,” Palestinian Airlines director general Zeyad Albad said. […]
The demand for blood in Mauritius has been rising every year as fears of critically low blood banks, yet less people are donating with many people not knowing there blood type. With strong concerns of blood shortages of rare blood, group O negative. The Mauritius Blood Donor Association has warned […]
By Ruben Navarrette Jr., CNN Contributor Editor’s note: Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a CNN.com contributor and a nationally syndicated columnist. San Diego, California (CNN) — As evidenced by media stories and public awareness campaigns, Americans have resolved to get tough on bullying. In that spirit, it’s time to send a message […]
By Michael Young, The Daily Star, Lebanon One thing that the Lebanese can usually do with some precision is predict stalemate. Their own conflict between 1975 and 1990 was one long, debilitating lesson in destructive deadlock. So when those in Beirut look toward Syria today and shake their heads, that’s […]
Guardian: A British TV channel that aired a lecture saying it is acceptable to murder someone who has shown disrespect to the prophet Muhammad is facing a significant fine or […]
Digitaljournal.com: by Elizabeth Batt: Under the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community motto: Love for All, Hatred for None, Muslims plan to converge on the Tower of London on May 13 to honor […]
Huff Post Looking back on the 2012 presidential campaign up to this point, one wonders why there has been an active effort by some Republican candidates to alienate American Muslims. This is especially surprising since, according to a recently published report by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, American Muslims are […]
the guardian A British TV channel that aired a lecture saying it is acceptable to murder someone who has shown disrespect to the prophet Muhammad is facing a significant fine or potentially even closure by Ofcom. Ofcom has taken the unprecedented step of ruling that DM Digital, which targets the Asian […]
Russian TV: Presidential hopeful Ron Paul has condemned a plan being considered in the United States House of Representatives that would allow for the US to continue aiding in the […]
Most travel agencies in China have suspended tours to the Philippines amid escalating tension in the South China Sea, Chinese state media say. An official at one agency confirmed the suspension to the BBC, while another said clients were being warned not to travel. Read More…
A woman has blown herself up in protest over the demolition of her house in southern China, killing two people, Chinese state media say. Read More…
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: The Red Cross says it has suspended operations in two of Pakistan’s largest cities following the killing of a British nurse working for the group in the country. […]
Rescuers have discovered bodies near the wreckage of a Russian-made passenger plane that crashed into an Indonesian volcano with 45 people on board. Search and rescue spokesman Gagah Prakoso said […]
By NOWELL SUKKAR BLACKLAW ARABNEWS In the midst of rapid, constant and never-ending change it is easy to overlook one of the fundamental causes at the core of many social, economic and environmental problems… “overpopulation.” Demographers, environmentalists and scientists estimate that the earth has the capacity to support and sustain […]
By TAMIM ELYAN | REUTERS ARABNEWS ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: At Al-Taqwa mosque in Egypt’s second biggest city, a preacher defends his ultra-orthodox Salafi group’s decision to endorse Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh, an Islamist who casts himself as a moderate, in this month’s presidential election. “Don’t consider his media statements only. He […]
By JEDDAH: AFIFA JABEEN QURAISHI ARABNEWS IS online education the next big thing or will it remain a distant entity awaiting its large-scale acceptance in the higher education landscape of Saudi Arabia? The image of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah launching the first phase of the university […]
AFP | May 09,2012 | 22:43 JORDAN TIMES DJERBA, Tunisia — A Jewish pilgrimage to the oldest synagogue in Africa on Tunisia’s Djerba Island began Wednesday under tight security after […]
Huff Post As far as I can remember, I’ve always looked different. In elementary school, my classmates called me a girl, a genie and Aladdin. In middle school, I was […]