By JEDDAH: ARAB NE The Kingdom has an age-old tradition of extending a helping hand to the needy and less fortunate. Victims of poverty, internal strife and natural disasters in any part of the world can be assured of the help in cash and kind from Saudis. A Saudi cargo […]
By YOUSUF MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: About 1,200 young men and women will marry in a mass wedding to be held on May 16, the Welfare Society for Marriage and Family Guidance announced on Friday. It said Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, the society’s honorary chairman, would patronize the […]
Los Angeles Times: By Edmund Sanders: Rahma abu Hussein can’t help but feel they are moving up in the world. The database engineer and his wife just bought their first home, and it’s […]
Global Post.Com: A French high school teacher faces disciplinary action after she urged students to observe a minute of silence for Mohammed Merah, the man who shot and killed three […]
The Global Post.com: Joel Elliott: WALTHAM, Massachusetts — It’s time for the World Bank to stop pretending significant progress is being made in reducing extreme global poverty. The self-congratulatory report it issued recently claimed it […]
Examiner.com: By Ayesha Noor: Happy 122nd Promised Messiah Day to everyone. March 23rd of the year 1889 became a revolutionary day in world religions’ history. On that day the waiting […]
By Zia H Shah MD The distinguished psychiatrist, Dr. Carl Jung, who was a contemporary of Freud and is well known for several contributions in the field, says in the […]
Source: Philippine News HANOVER – With all the frantic deal-making and head-spinning gadgets at the world’s top IT fair, it is perhaps no surprise that a chair promising the benefit of two hours sleep in 20 minutes drew big queues. The “brainLight” system, which its makers claim is unique, uses […]
Source: Huff Post – The Blog In my career and executive coaching, I work with hundreds of women each year going through major transitions. Recently, I was speaking with a fascinating client of mine — let’s call her “Carol” — who shared with me her views about midlife BEFORE she had […]
Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of the Syrian president, has been subjected to a travel ban and asset freeze in the European Union, after revelations about an online shopping spree […]
Source: Huff Post Religion Imagine that you’re on a camping trip. Are you jaunting through the Rockies, an earth-toned REI tent in tow? Imagine that you’re in a garden. Are you admiring the symmetry and scrupulousness of Versailles? Or getting your hands dirty in a community plot with rows of […]
Christianity is under threat from a new, intolerant brand of “aggressive atheism” intent on driving religion out of public life, the Archbishop of York warned yesterday. Christianity is under threat […]
The cost of filling a large family car with petrol rose to almost £100 yesterday, as forecourt prices reached record heights. The AA said the cost of unleaded petrol reached […]
BBC Uzbek service. More than two million Muslims now live and work in Moscow. It has become one of the biggest cities for Muslims in Europe and its few houses of worship can no longer cope. During Friday prayers the historic building is overflowing and thousands of faithful are praying […]
WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday named Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth College and a global health expert, as its nominee to lead the World Bank. That makes Dr. Kim the front-runner to take the helm of the multinational development institution on June 30, when its current […]
Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — As evening falls in Chuddani, a village of about 500 homes, people arrive by bicycle, motorbike, tractor and on foot with jugs that they fill with water from faucets outside a neat blue shed. Inside the building is a filtration plant […]
Credit: Washington Post Zachary Goldfarb and Howard Schneider 3:20 PM ET Obama nominates Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, saying he was seeking someone with Kim’s expertise in public health to head what he called ”the world’s largest development agency.” More:
Credit: Newyork Times: I thought I’d take a look back at apologies that should have been delivered, but never were. Lyndon Johnson, for ordering covert operations in the gulf of Tonkin and then lying about it, leading to the war in Vietnam. Also for expanding the war while promising not […]
Credit: Stratfor: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L), German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (C) and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in Berlin on March 21 Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski visited Berlin on March 21 to meet informally with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and Russian Foreign […]
ADVENT OF THE MESSIAH—DESCEND OR RETURN? Ansar Raza In all world languages, the term used to express a person’s movement from one place to another is different from the term used to express the movement back from the second place to the first. If a person moves from point A […]