WOMAN “IMPRISONED” ON SCIENTOLOGY CRUISE SHIP FOR 12 YEARS
By Eric Pfeiffer | The Sideshow UPDATE: The Village Voice has an extended interview with Village Voice, which you can read here. For most people, an extended stay aboard a […]
By Eric Pfeiffer | The Sideshow UPDATE: The Village Voice has an extended interview with Village Voice, which you can read here. For most people, an extended stay aboard a […]
Can the euro be saved? Not long ago we were told that the worst possible outcome was a Greek default. Now a much wider disaster seems all too likely. True, market pressure lifted a bit on Wednesday after central banks made a splashy announcement about expanded credit lines (which will, […]
(Reuters) – Britain orchestrated this week’s bold move by central banks to stave off a cash crunch in global markets, helping drive a plan that began to take shape around 10 days ago. For months, central bankers have tracked with growing concern how the deleveraging among European banks, hurt by […]
ISLAMABAD: In a development that pushes US-Pakistan relations further into the realm of uncertainty, the army has authorised its local commanders deployed near the Afghan border to retaliate to any […]
Women are forced to board public buses from the back and stay there. Billboards with images of women are defaced. Public streets are cordoned off during religious holidays so that women cannot enter. Saudi Arabia in the misogynistic grip of sharia law? Sadly, astonishingly, infuriatingly, it is Israel under the […]
Source: Dawn Afghanistan has pardoned a woman who was raped by a family member but then jailed for adultery, a statement from the presidential palace has said, in a case that highlights deep concerns about women’s rights in the country. It remained unclear whether the 21-year-old-woman, known as Gulnaz, would […]
Source: Sorry, I cannot tell you. From the Royal Palace, but not permitting to be quoted. News leaking out of the Royal Palace in Amman through confidential sources that do not want to be named are speaking about plans to permit 400’000 Iraqi Christians to be settled in Jordan. The […]
Source: GHANAWEB INTRODUCTION Even before the Gregorian calendar of 2011 officially ends on December 31, Muslims have already started a New Islamic Year as per the Islamic calendar which differs from the Gregorian on the basis of the number of days in each of its 12 months. It only so […]
By CAROLINE COPLEY | REUTERS ZURICH: Armed with snow canons and cut-price hotel deals some of Switzerland’s ski resorts, already beleaguered by the strong Swiss franc, are grappling with another […]
By ROBERTA FEDELE | LIFE.STYLE@ARABNEWS.COM The experience of a group of foreigners through Harrat’s lava fields A desert trip in Saudi Arabia can always lead to unexpected surprises. Despite the […]
By Dalia Nammari, The Associated Press, Jordan Times RAMALLAH – Palestinian prisoners released in a swap for an Israeli soldier last month are racing to make up for lost time: […]
Source/Credit: Berwick Leader SHEDDING light on the true teachings of the Koran is the main focus of a Cranbourne exhibition this weekend. Organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Victoria, […]
آخری وقت اشاعت: جمعرات 1 دسمبر2011 15:08 GMT 20:08 PST, Credit:BBCurdu پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی کے رہنما بابر اعوان نے کہا ہے کہ سپریم کورٹ میں متنازع میمو کی سماعت حکومت کے خلاف […]
By Express / Faisal Shakeel Published: December 1, 2011 Credit:Xpress Tribune ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif succeeded in pushing back the memogate affair under the spotlight as he and his party members dubbed […]
By AFP Published: December 2, 2011 Credit:Xpress Tribune WASHINGTON: Al Qaeda is holding a US aid worker who was kidnapped in August in Pakistan, the extremist group’s leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said in […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times It is very simple! And as we celebrate, the first United Nations International Day of Yoga – the […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times There are different festivals in Hinduism, one of them is Divali. Diwali, the festival of lights, is […]
This article by Zia H Shah MD was originally published in Winter, 2009 volume of the Muslim Sunrise This examines the philosophical and historical basis of human rights. With the […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Those anxiously watching the rally in U.S. oil prices over the past few weeks have received a pleasant surprise at the pump: while oil has shot upward, gasoline is moving in the opposite direction. The moves may seem counter-intuitive, since crude oil is used to produce […]
By Dr Amtul Qudoos Farhat (This article refutes some of the concepts of St Paul as stated by His Holiness Pope Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI in his book, Jesus, the […]