Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — Roughly 42 percent of all Indian children under age 5 suffer from malnutrition, a sobering reminder of the persistence of poverty and hunger in the world’s largest democracy, according to a major report released on Tuesday “The problem of malnutrition is a matter […]
Source: The New York Times Dr. Mary Ellen Avery, a medical researcher who helped save hundreds of thousands of premature infants with a single, crucial discovery about their ability to breathe, died on Dec. 4 in West Orange, N.J. She was 84. Children’s Hospital Boston made the announcement days after her […]
Source: The New York Times A newly discovered hormone produced in response to exercise may be turning people’s white fat brown, a groundbreaking new study suggests, and in the process lessening their susceptibility to obesity, diabetes and other health problems. The study,published on Wednesday in Nature and led by researchers at […]
MANILA, Philippines — President Benigno S. Aquino III awards the city of Santiago in Isabela the Presidential Award for Most Child-Friendly City (Independent Component City Category) for its efforts to promote children’s health, welfare, protection and education. The annual citation is given by the Office of the President through the […]
Recent storms that have hit the Dutch coast have lead to a huge number of orphaned seals washing up on the shore.The AP reports that some seals were so young their umbilical cords are still attached. Now workers at a seal sanctuary in the city of Groningen have had to install a […]
Women are flocking from gyms in droves these days and it’s never been better for their wallet. A poll by beauty and lifestyle site Total Beauty revealed 79 percent of women don’t even have a gym membership. But that doesn’t mean ladies are couch surfing and gorging on 100-calorie packs of Oreos instead. […]
Source: Physicsworld Physicists in Germany have developed the first-ever “nano-ear” capable of detecting sound on microscopic length scales with an estimated sensitivity that is six orders of magnitude below the […]
The remainder of the crippled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is set to crash to Earth on Sunday following its botched mission to Mars, space experts have said. The minibus-sized Russian craft has […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Consumers pulled back on their spending in December despite the holiday shopping season, according to a government report released Thursday. The Commerce Department report showed that overall retail sales rose only 0.1% compared to November — falling short of forecasts of economists surveyed by Briefing.com, who […]
By the CNN Wire Staff Damascus, Syria (CNN) — A former member of the Arab League monitoring team in Syria said he resigned from the mission because it is “providing […]
Source: By Liz Leslie – Muslim Voices Nigeria Groups of young Nigerians, made up largely of Muslims, protected churches in Minna Sunday during services to show interfaith unity. The Concerned […]
source / Courtesy: Yahoo News WASHINGTON (AP) — In a groundbreaking case, the Supreme Court on Wednesday held for the first time that religious employees of a church cannot sue […]
Source: LEADERSHIP (NIGERIA) In 628 AD, a delegation from St. Catherine’s Monastery came to Prophet Muhammed (SAW) and requested his protection. He responded by granting them a charter of rights, declaring: “This is a message from Muhammad ibn Abdullahi, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, near and far, […]
Source: Express Tribune Reports suggest president has gone on a scheduled one-day trip. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari left for Dubai on a scheduled one-day trip on Thursday, local television stations reported, amid growing tension over a memo seeking US help in preventing a coup by the military. The […]
Source: Asiatimes Kim Jong-il’s passing in December could be good news for Russia’s “Lenin laboratory” of embalmers, which has preserved dead communist leaders ranging from Joseph Stalin to Ho Chi Minh. Lacking work lately, the team would happily construct a glass coffin for the North Korean Dear Leader in Kumsusan […]
A new work of fiction about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict sounds at times a lot like fact. Haaretz: The President of the United States, haunted by troubles home and abroad, finally […]
Source: Reuters. Two Dutch internet service providers were ordered by the local court to block access to popular torrent sharing site, The Pirate Bay. The site posts torrents, which are links or sources of copies of unlicensed music, videos and software. The website’s users were violating copy right laws […]
BBC: The law is thought to have prevented thousands of Palestinians from living with their Israeli spouses Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld a law banning Palestinians who marry Israelis from gaining Israeli citizenship. Civil rights groups had petitioned the court to overturn the law, saying it was unconstitutional. “Human rights […]
Jakarta Globe: An angry mob torched an Islamic boarding school, an adjacent mosque and a row of houses in Sampang, East Java, last Thursday. In February last year, a pesantren, […]