Picture of the Day: Bird’s-eye view of Beijing on New Year’s eve
Photo taken on Jan. 22, 2012 shows the bird’s-eye view of the Olympic Green in Beijing, capital of China, on the eve before Chinese lunar Year of Dragon. [Photo/Xinhua]
Farahnaz says fled Pakistan for fear of kidnapping by ISI: No one safe anymore
Daily Dawn: KARACHI: Farahnaz Ispahani, media adviser to President Asif Ali Zardari and wife of Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, has said that she had fled to the US for fear […]
NY-based group raps Aquino over human rights abuses
Courtesy Philippines Daily Inquirer: MANILA, Philippines–The New York-based Human Rights Group on Monday lamented that President Aquino’s valiant promises to stem the rampant violation of human rights have remained just […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community announcing a new website for Christians!
lislamForWest.org is the official website of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to present Islam to the Christian, agnostic and atheist readers, in a user friendly fashion. In addition to the Homepage, […]
First private think tank wins approval
Source / Courtesy: China Daily A province in south China has approved the first registered private think thank to help advise officials on key issues, the People’s Daily reported. The […]
Researchers Say Children With DNA From Three Parents Only Three Years Away
Researchers from Newcastle University have been funded more than $9.3 million by the Wellcome Trust to begin experimenting with a method that could lead to children having DNA from three people to eliminate some genetic disorders. According to the Telegraph, the technique involves removing the nucleus from a donor cell and inserting a […]
This Unbelievable Motor Home Will Replace Your Car, House, Boat And Everything Else You Own
Motorhomes have always been a fun way to see the country and take a vacation with the family. However, it seems that there are always drawbacks. While the luxuries on board are amazing for a moving vehicle, they are not close to the same as those found in mansions or […]
Historic walled city under threat
LAHORE: The medieval walled city of Lahore is under threat from a construction ‘free-for-all’ ruining centuries of heritage, as an ambitious Pakistani restoration project to protect it stalls. Rapid and illegal growth is crowding out the “old city” —the section of the eastern hub fortified by a wall during the […]
They’ve Finally Invented A Bedbug Trap…
The bedbug plague continues to gain momentum, with New York having been overrun and other cities gradually succumbing. But, at last, there’s hope. It’s not a new insecticide. The new breed of bedbug is now resistant to that. It’s a trap. Read more:
Here’s How Google Search Is Destroying Our Memory
“We are becoming symbiotic with our computer tools, growing into interconnected systems that remember less by knowing information than by knowing where the information can be found.” This sentence comes from the findings of a new study conducted by psychology professors at Columbia University, the University Of Wisconsin-Madison, and Harvard University. Read more:
UK:Ministers ban extra benefits for multiple wives
Ministers are to bring to an end an “absurd” benefits regime which has seen husbands with multiple wives able to claim extra welfare payments. Although bigamy is illegal in Britain, men who married more than one woman in countries where the practice was legal and then brought them to the […]
Indonesians dump flowers, flip-flops for child rights
JAKARTA (AFP) – A community in eastern Indonesia has placed 1,000 pink adenium flowers outside the local parliament, police station and courtroom, not to say thanks, but to send a […]
Crocodile swallows 10-year-old girl as father watches helplessly
Maumere – Local officials in eastern Indonesia say a crocodile swallowed a 10-year-old girl while she frolicked in a river. The case is the second on that spot in the last two months. AFP reports that Viktor Mado Waton, a district head in East Nusa Tenggara province, said the incident […]
Coup attempt linked to 1971 War Crimes: Bangladesh envoy
IBNLive Bangladesh High Commissioner Tareq Karim accused the Bangaldesh Opposition of being involved in the coup attempt against the Sheikh Hasina government.http://ibnlive.com/livetv.
Jews Muslims and Christians Pray together For Rain In Holy Land
Jews, Christians and Muslims have united in the Holy Land to pray for rain. An unusually dry autumn has left Israel and the Palestinian territories perilously parched. Imams, rabbis and priests […]
Dutch press review Wednesday 18 January 2012
Christian Democrats are worried that ‘compassion’ sounds like an anti-government slogan, Trouw reports. The coalition partners are heading for a showdown with Geert Wilders over cutbacks. Health insurance companies have been paying for therapy to ‘cure’ gays. School grades are falling as pushy parents insist their kids should study […]
Pakistan: Hydra unity
Courtesy Daily Dawn: ……….This actually shouldn’t come as a surprise in a country where the state has for long been active in defining what or who a ‘Muslim’ is, and that too in a society brimming with various sects and sub-sects. This has left the sects judging one another, sometimes […]
Carolina Herrera: The Middle East is an inspiration
By RIMA AL-MUKHTAR, RIMA.ALMUKHTAR@ARABNEWS.COM Published: Jan 17, 2012 20:36 Updated: Jan 19, 2012 15:38 From my observations, Saudi women are a lot like Latin Americans; they love makeup and colors,” said the Venezuelan fashion designer, Carolina Herrera, after her visit to Jeddah to support breast cancer awareness with Zahra Breast […]
In order to achieve Religious Harmony and Peace Pakistan can follow the success story of Ghana.
By Zubair Khan ” it does not matter where you come from. As long you are in Ghana we consider you as Ghanaian, we will treat you as Ghanaian and we are proud of it” These were the few strange and astonishing words, which on 18th of January 2012, […]
Saudi Arabia: Foreign reserves: Time to consider new options
By ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEG ARAB NEWS Published: Jan 22, 2012 04:57 Updated: Jan 22, 2012 04:57 Over the past few years, Saudi Arabia has accrued significant budget surpluses resulting from increased oil production and higher oil prices. Some of those surpluses have been used as foreign reserves of the Saudi […]