Source: Spiegel Germany By SPIEGEL Staff A snap election in North Rhine-Westphalia will put Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government under intense strain this spring. Her junior partner, the FDP, is putting its own survival above coalition unity. And an early tactical error by her party’s candidate, Norbert Röttgen, could wreck its […]
Credit Stratfor: By George Friedman The war in Afghanistan has been under way for more than 10 years. It has not been the only war fought during this time; for seven of those years another, larger war was waged in Iraq, and smaller conflicts were under way in a number […]
Source: TOI When your skin is on a diet (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images) True beauty comes from within. “The secret to a healthy glow may not be hidden in your cosmetics,” says skin expert Dr Jaishree Manchanda. Healthy skin, like any organ, is often a reflection of diet and lifestyle. If […]
Credit: TOI A 14-year-old has started an anti-graft website. Another one, where you can post your trysts with bribe is making waves with Pakistan, Bhutan, Philippines, Bangladesh, Kenya, even China, looking to replicate it. Can these bring down what affects the average Indian the most – retail corruption? When my […]
Source: Yahoo News Severe weather hammered the Midwest and South from Minnesota to Texas including a tornado that touched down in San Antonio, where at least 50 homes were damaged or destroyed. Residents across this broad region were bracing for flooding Tuesday after the severe weather brought heavy rain and […]
Washington Post: By Michael Birnbaum: WARSAW — Here in Poland, where dreary communist-style apartment blocks still dominate the landscape, the euro was once hailed as a fast-track ticket to the economic […]
AFP: PARIS — The bodies of three Franco-Israeli children and a French rabbi who were murdered in a French school shooting were to be flown to Israel on Tuesday, a Jewish community body said. Teacher Jonathan Sandler, his two sons Gabriel, 4, and Arieh, 5, and a seven-year-old pupil at […]
Source: Express tribune KARACHI: On Monday, Lata and Rinkle Kumari’s families wept and appealed to the government to let them meet their daughters, while 15-year-old Asha’s family demanded that the authorities should find and rescue their missing daughter. While speaking in Sindhi at a press conference at Karachi Press Club, […]
BRUSSELS, March 20 (KUNA) — The Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe (FIOE) has strongly condemned the shooting of four people including three children at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse on Monday. “It is in an appalling incident that represents a despicable and shocking act,” said […]
The legislation is an effort to change idealized perceptions of beauty that, according to evidence presented to the Knesset, encourages eating disorders such as anorexia. Haaretz The Knesset yesterday passed […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Zia Khan Published: March 20, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Taliban will be watching keenly when Parliament begins on Tuesday a long overdue review […]
Ahmadiyya Times: By Imran Jattala: Monthly Misbah, a women’s magazine published by the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan for decades is ordered banned on the recommendation of a board of mullahs constituted by […]
By JEDDAH: GALAL FAKKAR, ARAB NEWS STAFF Published: Mar 20, 2012 01:06 Updated: Mar 20, 2012 01:06 Egyptian authorities have taken steps to bring Haj and Umrah affairs under a single authority to streamline Haj operations in the country. “The proposed independent commission will solve organizational difficulties related to the […]
Penalty reduced from death after family dropped charge by Rana Husseini | Mar 19,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — In a relatively rare ruling in an “honour killing” crime, the Criminal Court sentenced the defendant to death and reduced it to life after the family of the victim dropped charges. […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Pak Tea House March 18th, 2012 | 9 Comments By Amaar Ahmad Imran Khan’s stock has arisen in the past few months with […]
NY Times: The officials said the so-called war game was not designed as a rehearsal for American military action — and they emphasized that the exercise’s results were not the […]
Source: Cricinfo Author: David Hopps “I ask everyone to forgive me,” he said. “I messed up… Thanks to Allah I have taught myself to distinguish between right and wrong. I […]
ScienceDaily (Mar. 19, 2012) — For a 6-year-old, one of the most powerful educational tools may be direct instruction, according to new research on how children learn about prejudice. Scientists found that as children get closer to age 10, they begin to rely more on their own experiences rather than what […]
Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the eminent Turkish Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was recently welcomed in Europe, the U.S. and Australia. However, this organization has an agenda to criminalize criticism of Islam, which threatens to strangle dissent and reform. Established in 1969 and based in Saudi Arabia, the OIC […]
TOULOUSE, France, March 19 (Reuters) – A gunman shot dead three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday, days after killing three soldiers nearby, prompting French President Nicolas Sarkozy to put the region on its highest terrorism alert. With the attacker, who escaped on a […]