Can Gauck be president ‘while living in sin?’
Source: The Local Germans generally agree that Joachim Gauck is a good choice for president. But can the ex-pastor be the nation’s moral authority while staying married to one woman […]
‘Any fool could have been a Darwin,’ Richard Dawkins
Cat is out of the bag. After a life time of idealizing and making an idol out of Sir Charles Darwin, Prof. Richard Dawkins has a Freudian slip that any […]
Border melts as India, Bangladesh celebrate Mother Language Day
Source: twocircles.net By Sujit Chakraborty, IANS, Akhaurah (India-Bangladesh border) : With hundreds and thousands of people from either side of the border present and vivid functions and commemorations of the language martyrs, India and Bangladesh Tuesday jointly organised the International Mother Language Day. Men, women and young students belonging to […]
Bangladesh wants Bangla as an official UN language: Sheikh Hasina
Source: Feb 19, 2012, 06.46PM IST DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that Bangladesh was working to make Bangla an official UN language considering the vast number of its speakers and its rich literary heritage. Bangladesh is trying to establish Bangla as one of the official languages of the […]
Obama Offers to Cut Corporate Tax Rate to 28%
WASHINGTON — President Obama will ask Congress to scrub the corporate tax code of dozens of loopholes and subsidies to reduce the top rate to 28 percent, down from 35 percent, while giving preferences to manufacturers that would set their maximum effective rate at 25 percent, a senior administration official […]
Memogate: Mansoor Ijaz arrives at Pakistan High Commission
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: February 22, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Mansoor Ijaz has arrived at the Pakistan High Commission in London to record his statement […]
Dead for 32,000 Years, an Arctic Plant Is Revived
Source: NY Times. Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower, the narrow-leafed campion, that died 32,000 years ago, a team of Russian scientists reports. The fruit was stored by an arctic ground squirrel in its burrow on the tundra of northeastern Siberia and lay […]
Cabinet Condemns Raid against Al-Aqsa Mosque, House Demolition
Wafa: Palestinian News Agency: RAMALLAH, February 21, 2012 (WAFA) – The Cabinet Tuesday condemned continuous attempts by Israeli settlers and extremists to raid Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City and […]
For Hungry Elephants, the Next Meal Could Be Poison
Jakarta Globe: Angry residents of Nunukan, East Kalimantan, are threatening to set out poison for a group of elephants blamed for destroying crops in the area. (AFP Photo) Angry residents […]
Attack on Ahmadiyah: Police names 20 Suspects but no arrests
Jakarta Globe: Cianjur, West Java. Twenty men have been named suspects in the Friday attack on a mosque used by Ahmadiyah sect members in Cipeuyeum village, Cianjur, West Java, police […]
The Great Repression In Europe And The US
Businessinsider.com: “No government has ever commanded the resources at the disposal of our ungodly Leviathan, which consumes about 25% of the product of the world’s richest country. It is driven by a voracious alliance of government’s own employees, and those who receive benefits from the state. At least 90 million […]
Dutch masterpieces seal bond with Turkey
Several museums in Istanbul are holding major exhibitions of famous Dutch paintings to mark 400 years of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Netherlands. Ties between the two countries go back to 1612, when Cornelis Haga presented his credentials to Sultan Ahmet I as the first ambassador the Dutch Republic […]
China-Turkey trade to expand
Source: China Daily BEIJING – Trade relations between China and Turkey will deepen in the coming years despite inevitable frictions, experts said. “Trade frictions between China and Turkey are inevitable as bilateral trade volume expands and the global economic slowdown intensifies export competition between the two fast-growing economies,” Li Guofu, […]
Feeding the bomb, starving the nation
Dawn: Murtaza Haider: Pakistanis are fast becoming a wasted nation. The alarmingly high level of malnutrition observed in Pakistan in the past few years is far worse than what has […]
Warnings to avoid Iran attack suspicious
by Linda Heard, ARABNEWS Washington and its Western allies ideally would like to see Iran brought to its knees for a number of reasons. Iran’s nuclear capability, for all the hype, isn’t one of them. There is no proof that Tehran is working toward a nuclear bomb — and even […]
King urges boost in efforts to solve Syria crisis peacefully
Jordan, China seek to enhance commercial, investment cooperation AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday called for increasing efforts to end the crisis in Syria through peaceful ways, a […]
More than 100 killed in south Libya clashes — tribes
AFP | Feb 21,2012 | 22:45 JORDAN TIMES TRIPOLI — Fierce clashes between two tribes in Libya’s remote southeastern desert have killed more than 100 people over the past 10 days, tribal sources said on Tuesday. At least 113 people from the Toubu tribe and another 23 from the Zwai […]
Are Ahmadi Muslims or Non-Muslims?
By Yasser Latif Hamdani Source: PakTeaHouse “Ahmadis are Muslims, If They Say They are Muslims and No One, Not Even the Sovereign Legislature, has the Right to Say Otherwise”. Muhammad Ali […]
“Conquest 1453” about Istanbul, hits cinemas
By Menekse Tokyay for Southeast European Times in Istanbul — 20/02/12 It is rare to see movie theatres packed in the middle of a workday, but that’s what happened Thursday (February […]
This Is Why More Black Women Aren’t Getting Married
Once upon a time (in America), marriage seemed like the logical next step every woman eventually took. But with marriage rates declining steeply, that fairy tale has been untrue for some time now. While changing attitudes toward marriage seem to have affected Americans of all races and ethnicities, one group […]