The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune Published: January 11, 2012 In a deepening civil-military divide, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has taken notice of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s […]
Rachel Weinstein calls it her Rosa Parks moment. On a recent morning, the 38-year-old Israeli boarded a bus to a local shopping center in her town. It was the same line she takes regularly, but on this day an ultra-Orthodox passenger directed her to the back of the bus where, she noticed, […]
Courtesy (Reuters) – Organized crime has tightened its grip on the Italian economy during the economic crisis, making the Mafia the country’s biggest “bank” and squeezing the life out of thousands of small firms, according to a report on Tuesday. Extortionate lending by criminal groups had become a “national emergency,” […]
by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch Political paralysis, a lack of leadership among the international community and a cholera epidemic continue to plague Haiti two years after a devastating earthquake. An estimated 1.5 million people lost their homes following the quake on January 12, 2010, which killed almost 250,000 people. Half a […]
Courtesy: NY Times: …….Now, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have identified 16 assessment scales with “moderate” to “very good” abilities to determine the likelihood of death within six months to five years in various older populations. Moreover, the authors have fashioned interactive tools of the most accurate […]
My beloveds, I travelled again to the village of my friend Tekka, after years away. He had become very devout in his ways, sometimes a little pompous, but still the […]
By Charlotte Rachael Proudman Notebook – A selection of Independent views -, Opinion The number of long-term relationships between Asian men and white women are increasing year on year. Hooking […]
AP | Jan 11,2012 Source: Jordan Times CAIRO — The head of Al Azhar, the pre-eminent institute of Islamic learning in the Sunni Muslim world, put forward a Bill of […]
Source / Courtesy: Whig Standard Alia Hogben, January 7, 2012 Till we honestly talk about the values underpinning tribal patriarchy and their pervasive influence, our women and girls will continue to suffer simply because they are of the wrong gender. To have this focus does not diminish the suffering of […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Irfan Ghauri Published: January 11, 2012 ISLAMABAD: While options for the beleaguered Pakistan Peoples Party appear to be narrowing, the ruling alliance […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Express / Faisal Shakeel Published: January 10, 2012 ISLAMABAD: The apex court has had enough of the federal government’s ‘shenanigans.’ In a sternly-worded order […]
Source: The New York Times If you have friends or relatives in the last third of their lives, Karl Pillemer, who heads the Cornell Legacy Project, suggests that you ask what their experiences, both positive and negative, have taught them about living effectively. Their answers may both enrich your understanding […]
Food advertising is infamous for the techniques it uses to make items look bigger and better. The fast food industry is no different. Dario D undertook a lengthy project to compare the pictures shown in fast food ads to the real thing that arrives on your plastic tray. He posted the results […]
How should people prepare for the difficult years that are coming? I get asked about that a lot. Once people really examine the facts, it is not too hard to convince them that an economic collapse is coming. But once they accept that reality, most of them want to know […]
Black women are narrowing the gender wage gap, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This chart shows black women earning 94% of black men’s full-time weekly wages in 2010, higher than comparisons among Hispanics (91%), Asians (83%), and Whites (81%). Previously the gap between Hispanic men and women had been […]
How should people prepare for the difficult years that are coming? I get asked about that a lot. Once people really examine the facts, it is not too hard to convince them that an economic collapse is coming. But once they accept that reality, most of them want to know […]
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.html Source / Courtesy: Guardian UK Five men go on trial over leaflet calling for gay people to face death penalty in first prosecution of its kind under new law. […]
Russia has voiced rare “worry” over Iran’s nuclear ambitions as the European Union brought forward a meeting of foreign ministers to decide whether to impose a potentially crippling oil embargo. […]
Immigration meant 160,000 British workers missed out on jobs in the last five years, the Government’s migration expert revealed. A Briton is “displaced” from the labour market for every four […]
By Christoph Reuter, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Holger Stark, SPIEGEL-ONLINE After months of secret negotiations, the Taliban are opening a political office in Qatar, a first step toward peace talks […]