Top 10 health stories of 2011
Top 10 health stories of 2011: food chemicals, vitamin D and brain waves • EEG shows awareness in some vegetative patients. Canadian researchers discover that the brains of patients in […]
Canadian-made HIV vaccine approved for human testing
Many have tried and failed to create a vaccine that could prevent infection with HIV. Now, Canadian researchers say they’re working on one that takes a different approach. Researchers from the […]
Arab Spring and Libyan prophecy
By Hasan Abu Nimah When, in March 2008, the Libyan leader, Muammar Qadhafi warned the Arab leaders that their “turn was coming”, they laughed. It was one of many habitual […]
Nouvelles victimes de la politique d’immigration
A cinq mois de l’élection présidentielle, le ministre de l’Intérieur français poursuit son offensive contre l’immigration. La France accueille chaque année 200 000 étrangers en situation régulière et « c’est trop » estime Claude Guéant. Le locataire de la Place Beauvau s’est fixé comme objectif de diminuer l’immigration légale de 10%. Menacés d’expulsion […]
Will he jump?
A Swiss and an Austrian watch the 8 o’clock News on TV. Pictures are shown of a desperate man standing on top of a roof. Says the Swiss to the […]
Darwinian Evolution: Islam or Christianity?
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that […]
Foundation of our morality: Islamic and Judeo-Christian tradition!
If we examine our morality in its extreme situations we may realise that clearly there are religious implications and our morality came from God and perhaps cannot fully exist without God. Our morality is rooted in the prophets of God who revealed to us the absolute standards of our Creator […]
Playing chess in Eurasia
Source: Asiatimes on Line By Pepe Escobar Bets are off on which is the great story of 2011. Is it the Arab Spring(s)? Is it the Arab counter-revolution, unleashed by the House of Saud? Is it the “birth pangs” of the Greater Middle East remixed as serial regime changes? Is […]
Maybe that war with China isn’t so far off
Source: Asiatimes on line. The United States has the doctrine, the means and the motivation to make mischief for China in 2012. In an unusually toxic election year, expect the US to feed the “return to Asia” narrative with the specter of China as an arrogant and destabilizing regional threat. […]
Can You Be Good Without God?
Source: NY Times. A writer for a Times blog about philosophy argues that being an atheist does not mean “anything goes” — in fact, quite the opposite. What do you think? Can morality be independent of God? Can people who don’t believe in God still be as “good” as those […]
Mass March by Cairo Women in Protest Over Abuse by Soldiers
Source: NY Times CAIRO — Several thousand women demanding the end of military rule marched through downtown Cairo on Tuesday evening in an extraordinary expression of anger over images of soldiers beating, stripping and kicking female demonstrators in Tahrir Square. Complete Story.
The Saudis are coming!
By ROGER HARRISON, ROGER.HARRISON@ARABNEWS.COM In their preparation for the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Saudi Equestrian team have one more hurdle to jump to be able to qualify. The Pan […]
Malaysia Islamic TV show crowns best woman preacher
By ANGIE TEO | REUTERS Published: Dec 19, 2011 16:53 Updated: Dec 19, 2011 17:07 KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian Muslim woman was crowned the best preacher in a televised Islamic […]
GCC leaders back call for union of Gulf states
By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN I ARAB NEWS Published: Dec 21, 2011 02:16 Updated: Dec 21, 2011 02:19 RIYADH: The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) concluded its two-day summit in Riyadh […]
Strict diet could save brain from aging: study
WASHINGTON: Eating less may keep the mind young, according Italian scientists who reported Monday they have discovered the molecular process by which a strict diet may save the brain from the ravages of age. The research, published in the US journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is […]
Accountability in aid: World Bank downgrades anti-poverty programme
Express News: The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund seems to be losing momentum. The $250 million programme was recently downgraded by the World Bank in a report issued by the Washington-based lender’s supervisory mission. The anti-poverty program was downgraded to ‘moderately satisfactory’, the lowest grade it has received in 12 years. […]
Unsafe for journalists: ‘Pakistan among most dangerous countries again’
AFP: GENEVA: At least 106 journalists were killed in 2011, among them 12 in Mexico and 11 in Pakistan, making them the most dangerous countries to work in, a campaign group said on Monday. Twenty journalists who reported on the Arab spring uprisings were killed this year and more than […]
True Nature of Divine Revelations
Source / Courtesy: Muslim Sunrise 2011 Winter Volume Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Christopher Hitchens has been called one of the four horsemen of neo-Atheism. […]
Russia steps up demands for Nato to account for civilian deaths in Libya
Russia has stepped up demands for Nato to account for civilian deaths from the air strike campaign which led to the downfall of Libyan strongman Muammer Gaddafi. The campaign by […]
UK David Cameron arrives in Afghanistan on troop visit
David Cameron arrived in Kandahar today to visit troops based in Afghanistan. The Prime Minister was supposed to visit Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, but had to divert south due […]