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 […]
Jeddah: From Thursday, only female staff will be able to sell women’s lingerie in Saudi Arabia, ending decades of awkwardness in the conservative kingdom where women are expected to don black cloaks at all times out of the home. “I and many other women like me were always embarrassed to walk […]
Dubai: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, yesterday announced that he has awarded Shaikha Fatima Bint Mubarak with the Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Honorary Sash. Read more
Back in the days of “there’s gold in them thar hills,” one of the prospectors’ doleful refrains boasted the title “My Girlfriend’s a Mule and a Mine.” Across the Pacific and some 150 years on, I wouldn’t be surprised if an echo of that plaintive air were not about to […]
Source / Courtesy: BBC online 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 […]
By Sarah Elzas As Europe’s economy continues to flounder, some are starting to look for alternatives. In France a new barter system facilitates the exchange of services between people without any money changing hands. The accorderie was born in Quebec is now in France, in northern Paris and… Details: http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/ 20120104-alternative-economy-paris
By Tony Cross France has been forced to apologise to the Sri Lankan government after its post office issued “personalised” stamps supporting the armed separatist Tamil Tiger group, which is banned in France. Details: http://www.english.rfi.fr/asia-pacific/20120104-france-apologises-sri-lanka-over-tamil-tiger-stamps
Courtesy: NY 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 program […]
Source: Express Tribune The SC had earlier issued a notice to the president but he did not submit his reply . ISLAMABAD: The judicial commission probing the Memogate case summoned President Asif Ali Zardari, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (DG-ISI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz […]
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve will begin later this month to publish the predictions of its senior officials about their own decisions, hoping to increase its influence over economic activity by guiding investor expectations. The change was approved at the most recent meeting of the Fed’s policy-making committee, in December, […]
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1110249–missing-gold-bullion-handed-to-egyptian-scholars-court-documents-show A man who accepted nearly $2 million in gold bars at night in a Rexdale parking lot took the gold to Egypt and gave it to Islamic scholars, court records show. Joseph Adam, a Toronto resident, is ordered to appear on Jan. 10 in the Ontario Superior Court of […]
Move is rare glimmer of progress in an encounter producing no large breakthrough, though the three-and-a-half-hour meeting did not break down either. Haaretz: Israeli negotiator Isaac Molho agreed to look at the Palestinian’s final status proposal during the first meeting in month between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators in Amman, Jordan, […]