Satellite Photo Shows New Island Rising from Earth’s Red Sea
Source / Courtesy: Yahoo News By Brett Israel, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer Space.com | SPACE.com The Red Sea has a new inhabitant: a smoking island. The island was created by a wild […]
Tax Benefits From Options as Windfall for Businesses
The stock market’s rebound from the financial crisis three years ago has created a potential windfall for hundreds of executives who were granted unusually large packages of stock options shortly after the market collapsed. Now, the corporations that gave those generous awards are beginning to benefit, too, in the form […]
Ron Paul: Sanctions Against Iran Are an ‘Act of War’
ABC News: Unwilling to back down from the growing criticism that his foreign policy would be “dangerous,” Ron Paul told voters in Iowa that western sanctions against Iran are “acts of war” that are likely to lead to an actual war. Paul said that Iran would be justified in responding […]
Gus Dur- A man of God, a man of humanity
Jakarta Post: by Moh Yasir Alimi, Abdurrahman “Gus Dur” Wahid, the fourth president of Indonesia, a great ulema and a man of humanity, is no longer with us, but he […]
Swiss finally acknowledge wartime “heroes”
by Jessica Dacey, swissinfo.ch A chapter of Swiss history has been rewritten, clearing the names of people who helped smuggle refugees into Switzerland during the Second World War. A parliamentary […]
Vietnamese allegedly murdered by Taiwanese husband in no-son marriage
Authorities in Taiwan arrested a man Monday on suspects that he murdered his former Vietnamese wife soon after divorcing her who failed to give him a son. Pham Thi Thanh Truc, 29, was killed and thrown into the sea with rock tied to her body after the divorce trial on December […]
Four out of five’ bottles of Italian olive oil debased
With the global appetite for olive oil on the increase, unscrupulous producers are meeting the demand by mixing in cheaper oil from Greece, Spain, Morocco and Tunisia and passing it off as top-end extra virgin oil. Read more
99-year-old divorces wife after he discovered 1940s affair
An Italian couple are to become the world’s oldest divorcees, after the 99-year-old husband found that his 96-year-old wife had an affair in the 1940s. The Italian man, identified by lawyers in the case only as Antonio C, was rifling through an old chest of drawers when he made the […]
Memogate: Parliamentary committee summons DG ISI, Haqqani and Ijaz
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Express / Zahid Gishkori Published: December 30, 2011 ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on National Security on Friday summoned former Ambassador to the United States […]
Civilian authority has come under the Army: Asma Jehangir
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Sidrah Moiz Published: December 30, 2011 ISLAMABAD: Counsel for former Ambassador to the United States Asma Jehangir, speaking in reference to the […]
Memogate: SC says Memogate case maintainable
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Express / Faisal Shakeel Published: December 30, 2011 ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday declared the Memogate case to be maintainable and formed a […]
Flash Crash Threatens to Return With a Vengeance
FT: …..But amid that list there is also another, often ignored, question to ponder: could 2012 produce a repeat of the “flash crash”, the bizarre episode that hit the U.S. equity markets back on May 6 2010? Think about it for a moment. A full 18 months have passed since […]
Memogate: SC says Memogate case maintainable
Source: Express Tribune. The court has released a short order and will release a detailed order later. PHOTO: AFP/FILE ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday declared the Memogate case to be maintainable and formed a commission to probe into the scandal. Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Esa will head […]
Patching up?: ISI chief met US officials in Doha
Source: Express Tribune: PM confirms the visit, no comment on trip’s purpose. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States are working quietly to bring some normalcy to their troubled relationship following last month’s Nato airstrikes in Mohmand Agency. As part of some behind the scenes efforts, Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt […]
The Fat Trap
Source: New York Times: By TARA PARKER-POPE For 15 years, Joseph Proietto has been helping people lose weight. When these obese patients arrive at his weight-loss clinic in Australia, they are determined to slim down. And most of the time, he says, they do just that, sticking to the clinic’s […]
Iran and the Strait
Source: NY Times: Iran’s threat to shut the Strait of Hormuz— one-fifth of the world’s oil trade passes through there — if the United States and Europe press ahead with new sanctions is unacceptable. The Obama administration is right to signal, in deliberately moderated ways, that Washington will not back […]
Poles will spend PLN 7.9 bn for New Year’s Eve
Source: Warsaw Time Poles plan to spend around PLN 7.9 billion on the New Year’s Eve celebrations, i.e. nearly PLN 550 per household, a level comparable to last year’s sum, according to a report by KPMG audit, tax and advisory services. Of the amount, PLN 3.3 billion will pertain to […]
Young Saudis invent ploys to enter family-only malls
By NADIA AL-FAWAZ | ARAB NEWS ABHA: Entering malls and shopping centers have become a real challenge for young Saudi men, who have innovated many ways and means to force […]
Zero tolerance for torture: Bahrain to try 5 cops
By ARAB NEWS MANAMA: The Bahraini authorities announced on Thursday that five police officers would face trial next month over the death by torture of two detainees linked to anti-regime protests earlier this year. Nawaf Abdullah Hamza the Public Prosecution was quoted by the state news agency BNA that after […]
Iran may not be ‘existential threat’ to Israel — Mossad
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency has said a nuclear Iran might not pose an “existential threat” to Israel, in remarks reported Thursday by Haaretz newspaper. “Does Iran pose a threat to Israel? Absolutely,” the daily quoted Mossad chief Tamir Pardo as telling a group of […]