Online Learning, Personalized – A success story of an immigrant’s son
Source / Courtesy: NY Times SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jesse Roe, a ninth-grade math teacher at a charter school here called Summit, has a peephole into the brains of each […]
The Aid From Women No One Counts
Busan — Gender responsive budgeting becomes important when seen in the background of unpaid but important care work done by women, say delegates to an international meet on aid effectiveness in this South Korean city. “In Africa, a majority of women spend a majority of their working hours doing chores […]
In Ireland, Austerity Is Praised but Painful
DUBLIN — As European leaders scramble to overcome the Continent’s debt crisis, many are pointing to Ireland as a model for how to get out of the troubles. Having embraced severe belt-tightening to mend its tattered finances, Ireland is showing glimmers of a turnaround. A year after it received a […]
Keeping up the St Nicholas tradition
by Isobel Leybold-Johnson, swissinfo.ch With Christmas becoming increasingly commercialised, the custom of St Nicholas, which is celebrated on December 6 in Switzerland, has been fighting back. St Nicholas, who is […]
PRESS RELEASE: World Muslim leader sends Message of Peace to Pope Benedict XVI
The Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has sent a direct message to Pope Benedict XVI calling for the Pope to use his influence to encourage religious tolerance […]
China Sets Conditions on Binding Climate Change Commitment
China will agree to participate in a legally binding treaty on climate change after 2020 under certain conditions, a senior Chinese official said in Durban Monday. China is still a developing country, and other countries should respect a founding principle of the existing agreements that recognizes wealthy nations must do […]
Australian Matthew Ng jailed in China for embezzlement
An Australian businessman has been sentenced in China to 13 years in jail for embezzlement. Matthew Ng, a Chinese-born Australian citizen, was detained by police in the city of Guangzhou in November 2010. Read More…
The Old Testament versus the New Testament
“And the Jews say, ‘The Christians stand on nothing;’ and the Christians say, ‘The Jews stand on nothing;’ while they both read the same Book. Even thus said those who […]
Italy: Islam Not Recognized as a Religion — Denied Religious Tax Status
Original Post dated: August 2010 Italy has denied religious status to Islam. Politicians cited extremist (fundamentalist) imams, polygamy and failure to uphold women’s rights by Muslim immigrants as obstacles to […]
Afghanistan bombs kill 58 in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif
Source / Courtesy: BBC The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville: “It seems this was a co-ordinated attack; it certainly seems to have a sectarian element” Twin attacks apparently targeting Shia Muslims have killed at least 58 people in Afghanistan. In the deadliest incident, a suspected suicide bomb struck a shrine packed with […]
Greece Still Not Out of the Woods
http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/VideoPlayerMain.swf Any country, state or corporation, which indulges in significant amount of interest based loans will sooner or later find herself in woods or a thick jungle of financial chaos […]
Japan whaling fleet off to Antarctica
TOKYO — Japan’s whaling fleet left port Tuesday for the country’s annual hunt in Antarctica, press pictures showed, with security measures beefed up amid simmering international protests. Three ships, led by the 720-tonne Yushin Maru, set sail from Shimonoseki in western Japan on a mission officially said to be for […]
Women in Britain are fed up
Women in Britain today are fed up and that really isn’t good news for the government. The economy is declining, yet the cost of living is rising. And it’s women who are feeling the pinch become tighter and tighter in the rise in household bills, food prices, and increases for those […]
Laughter is the best medicine: “Alhamdulillah!”
An Imam was selling his horse in the market. An interested buyer came to him and requested if he could get a test drive. The Imam told the man that this horse is unique. In order to make it walk, you have to say Subhanallah. To make it run, you […]
Laughter is the best medicine: The good News and the bad News
Here is the story of an Imam who got up after Friday prayers and announced to the people: “I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, it’s still out there in your […]
Kingdom seeks global backing for Palestinians
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia on Monday urged the international community to adopt a united and decisive stand to help the Palestinians get their legitimate rights including an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital on the basis of UN resolutions. The weekly meeting of […]
Post-Assad Syria would drop special Iran ties
BEIRUT: The collapse of the 40-year-old Assad regime in Syria would radically change the politics of the Middle East, reducing the influence of Iran and its Islamist proxy Hezbollah in […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia on Monday urged the international community to adopt a united and decisive stand to help the Palestinians get their legitimate rights including an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital on the basis of UN resolutions. The weekly meeting of […]