By PETER GRAFF AND SUADAD AL-SALHY | REUTERS ARABNEWS BAGHDAD: A Shiite militia has handed over the body of the last US soldier missing in Iraq, closing a final chapter of the war two months after US troops left and more than five years after the soldier vanished while secretly […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Hundreds of pieces of furniture will be on display at the 18th edition of the five-day Malaysian International Furniture Fair, beginning here on March 6. Close to 500 local and foreign furniture manufacturers and exporters are participating in the exposition, organised by MIFF Sdn Bhd. The fair, where […]
NEW JERSEY: Stevens Institute of Technology, a premier private co-educational university focused on research and entrepreneurship and committed to exploring the frontiers of engineering, science, and management, bestowed its highest award on Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, wife of the Malaysian prime minister. The university’s president, Dr Nariman Farvardin, presented the […]
By AIJAZ Z. SYED ARABNEWS Are the Americans really that dumb? I mean after spending 11 years in the world’s most dangerous battlefield and dealing with the fiercely proud and famously hot-blooded Afghans you have to be stark, raving mad to be doing what the Americans were found doing last […]
AFP | Mar 01,2012 | JORDAN TIMES TBILISI — Thwarted attacks on Israelis in Tbilisi and Baku. Friction between Azerbaijan and its giant neighbour Iran. Fears of a new war over the conflict-bloodied region of Nagorny Karabakh. As warnings grow of a possible Israeli strike against Iran, the three small […]
Associated Press: WEST PALM BEACH: A measure to ban the use of foreign laws in US courtrooms is progressing in Florida’s statehouse. Critics call this one of the many unwarranted […]
In 1966, nearly 180 million people in the US received Miranda rights – the right to remain silent to avoid self-incrimination. Half a century later, a religious community in Pakistan, another country […]
Daily Telegrpah: Teachers from the US and UK are posting the best real exam answers from the pupils they teach on the websitehttp://funnyexam.com The students may have got an E in their tests but they’ve been creating chortles on the internet since the site was created. Many of the answers […]
A criminal complaint filed this week against a wealthy New York woman alleges that she kept an undocumented immigrant as a house worker for years, paying her just 85 cents an hour for nearly constant labor, and making her sleep in a walk-in closet. Read more:
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 […]