by Khalid Ahmed- Express Tribune; There is little consciousness of ethic in us because of the way we understand our religion. It deals with piety through worship. Once attained, piety is supposed to ensure ethical conduct. Therefore, religiosity is what we emphasise and practise it to make others believe that […]
By NAWAR FAKHRY EZZI What if there were a society where all people are in black and white with everyone murmuring the same prayers and leading the same way of life? For some people, this would be a dream come true. They believe that there is only one “true” path […]
By Taylor Luck AMMAN – Global and regional politics are not yet ripe for a Palestinian state, according to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, as leadership in Ramallah eyes a less than certain future. The Palestinian premier, a champion of institution-building as a path to statehood, said the current political […]
A team of scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and CellThera, a private company located in WPI’s Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center, have regenerated functional muscle tissue in mice, opening […]
The basic premise on which we won ourselves Pakistan was that a permanent majority cannot and should not dominate a permanent minority on account of numeric strength. Yet contrary to that founding logic, Pakistan is today legally a totalitarian fundamentalist theocracy A fresh round of hate has been unleashed against […]
Evolutionary psychologists suspect that prejudice is rooted in survival: Our distant ancestors had to avoid outsiders who might have carried disease. Research still shows that when people feel vulnerable to illness, they exhibit more bias toward stigmatized groups. But a new study inPsychological Science, a journal published by the Association for […]
ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2011) — Though paper wasps have brains less than a millionth the size of humans’, they have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used by humans, according to a University of Michigan evolutionary biologist and one of her graduate students. “Wasps and humans have independently evolved […]
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2011 (Reuters) — Men may be helping more in the home but working women still do more multitasking in U.S. families than their partners and are finding it stressful, according to a new study. Whether it is housework, cooking or childcare, women do about 10 hours more […]
Science Daily (Dec. 2, 2011) — “Face recognition is an important social skill, but not all of us are equally good at it,” says Beijing Normal University cognitive psychologist Jia Liu. But what accounts for the difference? A new study by Liu and colleagues Ruosi Wang, Jingguang Li, Huizhen Fang, and […]
ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2011) — Some atheist scientists with children embrace religious traditions for social and personal reasons, according to research from Rice University and the University at Buffalo — The State University of New York (SUNY). The study also found that some atheist scientists want their children to know about […]
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Bomb disposal experts in the German city of Koblenz have successfully defused two bombs from World War II found in the riverbed of the Rhine. They were discovered when water […]
Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party appears to have lost the trust of millions of Russians after early results showed it had won less than fifty per cent of the […]
It is one of the four canonical Gospels and is perhaps the most Jewish of all the Gospels with maximum stress on following the Jewish Law. It was written around 80 AD about ten years after the Gospel of Mark. According to Encyclopedia Britannica: “It has traditionally been attributed to […]
Instead of defending its rejected $285 million settlement with Citigroup, the SEC should take a page from the Enron playbook and consider pursuing individual officers. By Eleanor Bloxham, CEO of The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance FORTUNE — In the wake of Judge Jed Rakoff’s order rejecting the SEC […]
TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iran-based rights group voiced deep concern about severe violation of human rights in Camp Ashraf, the main stronghold of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization in Iraq, and urged the UN to rescue the female members of the group who have long been held captive by their […]
Governor Heryawan banned Ahmadiyyah, now wife calls the Trafficking Victims ‘Hedonists’ A leading migrant workers’ activist has lashed out at the prominent wife of the West Java provincial governor, warning […]
The more known: Source: Wikipedia. Muharram (Arabic: المحرّم) is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year in which fighting is prohibited.[1] Since the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, Muharram moves from year to year when compared with the […]
BEIJING – China is witnessing an increasing number of foreign women who have been cheated, kidnapped and smuggled into the country, a senior official has said. Most of these women are from rural areas in Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos. They eagerly want to find jobs in China or marry rich […]
By Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN) – Every religion has its true believers and its doubters, its pious and its pragmatists, but new evidence suggests that Muslims tend to be […]