Cardiac stem cells ‘heal heart damage’
BBC Stem cells taken from a patient’s own heart have, for the first time, been used to repair damaged heart tissue, researchers claim. The study, published in the Lancet, was designed to test the procedure’s safety, but also reported improvements in the heart’s ability to pump blood. The authors said […]
Banks Quietly Ramping Up Costs to Consumers
Even as Bank of America and other major lenders back away from charging customers to use their debit cards, many banks have been quietly imposing other new fees. Need to replace a lost debit card? Bank of America now charges $5 — or $20 for rush delivery. Deposit money with […]
Europe’s worst hour since World War II: Merkel
Source: TOI on line ROME/ATHENS: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that Europe could be living through its toughest hour since World War II as new leaders in Italy and Greece rushed to form governments and limit the damage from the euro zone debt crisis. Complete Story:
Hispanics Reviving Faded Towns on the Plains in USA
Courtesy / Source: NY Times ULYSSES, Kan. — Change can be unsettling in a small town. But not long ago in this quiet farming community, with its familiar skyline of grain elevators and church steeples, the owner of a new restaurant decided to acknowledge the community’s diversity by adding some […]
Panel to analyze long-period motion from quakes
A panel for Japan’s Meteorological Agency has begun looking into measures against long-period ground motions caused by earthquakes. Read more
Women Rights – Girl’s ration suffers because of abortions
Source/Credit:Monday, November 14, 2011 , by-Briseida-Mema-AFP “It’s another girl,” Roza said to the doctor, tears streaming down her pale face. “I cannot keep it, doctor, I already have three daughters,” she implored. The tiny, 28-year-old woman whose hair is already streaked with grey is more than four months pregnant – […]
Health: World Diabetes Day
Source/Credit:Monday, November 14, 2011 , by-Moira-Mizzi World Diabetes Day has grown from humble beginnings to become a globally-celebrated event to increase awareness. This year the occasion is concerned with diabetes in children and adolescents. Money and property, or the lack thereof, are not the only assets that we might inherit […]
Health and science – Scientists find big chink in malaria’s armour
Source/credit:Monday, November 14, 2011 , by-AFP Researchers said they had discovered a unique microscopic channel through which malaria parasites must pass to infect red blood cells, a finding that opens up a highlypromising target for a vaccine. The doorway mechanism is common to all known strains of the deadliest mosquito-borne […]
H. Gobind Khorana, 89, Nobel-Winning Scientist, Dies
Source / Courtesy: NY Times H. Gobind Khorana, who rose from a childhood of poverty in India to become a biochemist and share in a Nobel Prize for his role in deciphering the genetic code, died on Wednesday in Concord, Mass. He was 89. His death was announced by the Massachusetts Institute […]
Ahmadiyyah- The Other Face of Islam
Kababir Mosque, of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Published by Ven Satya Priya Sraman in Islam on November 12, 2011 The Ahmadiyyah movement (Ahmadi) is a camp in Islam which was founded arise the end of the 19th aeon in Punjab, India, and advance from there to altered countries. A lot […]
Clinton in the middle of Philippine fight: Government vs. the Muslim rebels
Splits within the Philippines elite over the worsening Islamic insurgency in the country’s south will greet United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she lands in Manila on Tuesday. With a ceasefire accord in strife-torn Mindanao now shattered, former president Joseph Estrada is among opposition hawks who believe full-blown […]
The Globalization of Protest: The battle between haves and havenots
NEW YORK – The protest movement that began in Tunisia in January, subsequently spreading to Egypt, and then to Spain, has now become global, with the protests engulfing Wall Street and cities across America. Globalization and modern technology now enables social movements to transcend borders as rapidly as ideas can. […]
The Japanese engineer calling for a life without electricity
Yasuyuki Fujimura runs the Atelier Non-Electric company and advocates a lifestyle without electricity. Photograph: Japan for Sustainability It is not all that long ago when we began using so many electrical appliances in everyday life. Japan’s first “pulsator-type” washing machine, a prototype of current models, reached the market in 1953. […]
Frenchman to swim from Tokyo to San Francisco
NEW YORK — At least he’ll have the ocean currents in his favor. Benoit “Ben” Lecomte, a Frenchman living in the United States, intends to swim clear across the Pacific Ocean next year, an unprecedented 5,500-mile (8,800-kilometer) journey expected to last five grueling months—and may land him in the history […]
Women intensify campaign against legal guardian
By WALAA HAWARI | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Women campaigning for the abolishment of a rule stipulating they name a legal guardian every time they apply for a job say their patience with the Ministry of Labor is running thin because the government department has not responded to their initial demand. […]
Meat of record sacrificial animals utilized
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s sacrificial meat utilization program has been instrumental in helping millions of pilgrims to perform sacrifices without hassles during the past three decades, said Ahmed Mohamed Ali, president of Islamic Development Bank (IDB). “We have been facilitating the sacrificial rites of […]
3-day workshop to empower Muslim NGOs opens at IDB
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Islamic Development Bank’s community development workshop aims to empower Muslim NGOs in different parts of the world by providing them with necessary training to boost their leadership skills, said Awadh Alassaime, director of the IDB department for communities in nonmember countries. […]