Be light on your feet Super-fun workout alert: Leap into these moves (based on Equinox’s Blockbuster Body class) designed to make you stronger, faster, and more agile. To get totally toned from this shape-up—co-created by Lisa Wheeler, Equinox’s national creative program manager of group fitness—choose a move for your arms, […]
The U.S. Army is considering a wardrobe change. Five camouflage design teams have been chosen to move onto the next stage of the Army’s selection and testing process of Phase IV Camouflage Improvement Effort. The designers have to prove that their patterns of desert, woodland, and transitional camouflage stand up to scientific […]
HONG KONG — Whenever her Chinese employer is displeased with her work, a Filipina working in one of the high-rise apartments here is ordered to sit in a corner all day long, her back pressed hard against the cold steel frame of the dining table. Then comes the battery of […]
You’d never guess that these famous people are Mormons. They’d never guess it either, considering that they didn’t exactly consent to becoming Mormons. Posthumous baptisms allow Church members to give non-Mormon relatives a chance to get into heaven after death. Read more:
David Cameron said the Syrian regime was guilty of “medieval barbarity” as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces were accused of mass killings in the city of Homs. As snow fell over […]
Petrol prices have reached a new record level today, hitting 137.44 pence a litre. The latest increase has seen the price of unleaded rise by just over three pence since […]
One of the pleasures of travelling through the Channel Tunnel is — for some passengers at least — the brief respite that it gives from the sound of people chattering […]
The white minaret, located close to the Mosque Aqsa is the glory of Qadian. As a symbol of Ahmadiyya Muslim community, minaratul masih(a.s.) is renowned all through out the world. […]
By Erika Solomon AKKAR VALLEY, Lebanon: Inspecting his machine gun and wrapping ammunition belts around his chest, Samhar braces himself for another night’s work. The scrawny 26-year-old calls his secret route through the mountainous Syrian-Lebanese border “the path of death.” But for nearby rebel-held areas in Syria, it is their […]
The four-meter-wide Lotus not only looks like nature’s symbol of renewal but folds up the same as nature’s version. In his research, Dr. Hui employs biomimicry, a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The new Lotus is capable of generating enough power (2 […]
By Michael Young The Daily Star, Lebanon It is unfortunate that among those most anxiously observing the uprising in Syria (and not only Syria) have been members of the Middle East’s religious and ethnic minorities. Indeed, Syria’s Alawite leadership is perpetrating a butchery partly because it expects its community to […]
Bo, Southern Sierra Leone: In keeping with his policy of religious tolerance, President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma officially opened the 51st Jalsa Salana of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Bo […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Stephen Harper are discussing Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The Israeli leader, who arrived this morning for a three-day […]
by Armando Mombelli, swissinfo.ch On March 3, 2002, the Swiss population narrowly voted to join the United Nations – a historic decision. It came after more than half a century of refusing to be part of the body, out of fears linked above all to safeguarding Switzerland’s cherished neutrality. “The […]
Credit: Ghananian Time: Ambassador Claude Maerten The Head of the European Union (EU), Ambassador Claude Maerten has praised Ghana for its democratic credentials, saying the country has been recognized worldwide as the beacon of democracy in Africa. The Ambassador made the observation when he paid a working visit to the […]
Islam is a mishmash of earlier religions. Muhammad was an Arab version of the Greek poet Homer. Islam didn’t arise in Mecca but in the Jordanian city of Petra. The Arab conquests came first, and only then the Muslims. In his new book The Fourth Beast, British historian Tom Holland makes […]
Credit: Daily Graphic Ghana: The prince is seen here in the Austrian Alps last year Dutch Prince Johan Friso, injured in an avalanche last week, is in a coma and may never regain consciousness, doctors treating him in Austria say. Prince Friso, who had been on a skiing holiday in […]
Credit; Spiegel-Germany Kai Löffelbein/ zenith-Fotopreis An estimated 4 million Muslims live in Germany, but what does Muslim life really look like in the country? Eighty-four German photographers recently set out in search of answers — and came up with some surprising results. What does Islam look like in Germany? Can you tell if […]
PARIS — Many countries censor the Internet, but few spell out their intentions as explicitly as Pakistan. The government published a public tender last month for the “development, deployment and operation of a national-level URL filtering and blocking System.” Technology companies, academic institutions and other interested parties have until March […]
Express Tribune: RAWALPINDI: Complying with the demands of the locals, the police on Friday barred Ahmadis from entering their worship centre in Satellite Town, Rawalpindi. Leading the locals, businessman Sharjeel Mir […]