Dawn: KARACHI: The Pakistani rupee traded at a record low of 90.42 on Thursday for the second consecutive trading session amid increased import payments, especially of oil, and because of a negative outlook on the country’s economy, dealers said. “There are some oil import payments but there are few inflows […]
Ahead of his planned return to Pakistan later this month, former President Pervez Musharraf is expected to meet Saudi King Abdullah to discuss getting “foolproof guarantees” from Pakistani civilian and military leaders that he will not be arrested after his homecoming. Sixty eight-year-old Musharraf, currently living in self-exile in Britain […]
Source: Dawn Author: Caroline Jane Back in September I ran a questionnaire asking readers to examine George Bush’s 2002 Axis of Evil: Iraq, Iran and North Korea. My last two articles have […]
For the majority of Americans committed to getting fit and shedding pounds in the new year, U.S. News & World Report has ranked the best diets of 2012 with help from a team of 22 nutrition experts. The DASH diet grabbed the top spot for the best overall diet followed by the […]
Date: January 3, 2012 Coyhaique, Northern Patagonia Yesterday we discussed certain events that, in my view, are nearly mathematical certainties. Things like a restructuring of public pensions and Social Security in Europe and the US. Western governments blocking Internet and mobile networks. War. The US government being forced to issue debt in a […]
By Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul-Masih IV (ra). In the West it is quite common to confront a speaker on the subject of Islam with the question: does Islam permit one […]
A message in a bottle thrown into the Rhine in Switzerland 30 years ago floated down Lake Constance, over the Rhine Falls and through both Atlantics to end up in […]
By ISABEL COLES | REUTERS ARAB NEWS DUBAI: Arab League monitors made “mistakes” in Syria during a mission to investigate a crackdown on nine months of anti-government protests, Kuwait’s state […]
By DAVID BAUDER | AP Published: Jan 4, 2012 23:32 Updated: Jan 4, 2012 23:32 NEW YORK: After its successful series on the history of America in 2010, television’s History […]
Reuters | Jan 05,2012 | 23:55 ANKARA — Middle East powerhouse Turkey on Wednesday warned against a sectarian cold war in the region and said rising Sunni-Shiite tensions would be “suicide” for the whole region. “Let me openly say that there are some willing to start a regional Cold War,” […]
Source: NCAR Scientists at National Center for Atmospheric Research and University of Colorado have created a computer model simulating ocean current and fluid dynamics during high wind storm, which could have parted the water in the Red Sea and enable Moses (peace be on him) to cross the strait. The reference is in […]
After a year of ups and downs in China-U.S. relations, are the two giants heading for collision or cooperation in 2012, in the context of global economic woes and U.S. presidential elections? The answer is not clear, partly because of the contradicting messages from Washington in the past year. President […]
Satellite broadcasters in China have cut entertainment TV by two-thirds following a government campaign, state news agency Xinhua has reported. An order by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) to curb ”excessive entertainment” came into effect on 1 January. Read More…
Source: The Telegraph Facebook is being cited in almost one in five of online divorce petitions, lawyers have claimed. The social networking site, which connects old friends and allows […]
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Source: The Local German scientists in Lower Saxony have identified a new type of dinosaur that roamed the world’s waters in prehistoric times, they announced Wednesday. The Acamptonectes densus, […]
Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks has condemned the violent clashes in the Israeli city of Bet Shemesh. Thousands of protesters demonstrated on Tuesday as part of the escalating conflict within Israeli society over the exclusion of women. Read more
Courtesy: RawStory.com By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, January 4, 2012 A head teacher in Bangladesh has been arrested after a banned book regarded by some Muslims as blasphemous was found in her college, police said Wednesday. Yunus Ali was arrested from the KC Technical and Business Management College in the coastal district of Pirojpur […]
Pakistan has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in Asia, despite parliament recently passing laws aimed at improving the rights of women. Read more
Courtesy: Pew Research & GOOD More than 10 years after 9/11, more than half of American Muslims say the fallout from the terrorist attacks have made it more difficult to live as a Muslim in the U.S. Yet America’s Muslim population is not disillusioned. A Pew Research report found that the […]