October 25, 2011 Limits of Magical Thinking By MAUREEN DOWD Steve Jobs, the mad perfectionist, even perfected his stare. He wanted it to be hypnotic. He wanted the other person to blink first. He wanted it to be, like Dracula’s saturnine gaze, a force that could bend your will to […]
Source / Courtesy: Bloomberg From his 33rd-floor penthouse apartment with sweeping views of the Nile River, Naguib Sawiris, Egypt’s best-known billionaire and most prominent Christian, can hear the chants of Friday prayers in the distance. As he sits down to a breakfast of taameya and ful, dishes made from fava beans, demonstrators are gathering […]
BRUSSELS — European leaders, in a significant step toward resolving the euro zone financial crisis, early Thursday morning obtained an agreement from banks to take a 50 percent loss on the face value of their Greek debt. The agreement on Greek debt was crucial to assembling a comprehensive package to […]
A number of matchmaking events involving Buddhist monks, who are permitted to marry and have families in Japan, have taken place in the capital. Read more
Source: CNN Author: William Bennett In his first inaugural address in 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower told the American people, “History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. We must acquire proficiency in defense and display stamina in purpose.” This was […]
Source: Reuters Reporting By: Adrian Croft Pakistan’s security service provides weapons and training to Taliban insurgents fighting U.S. and British troops in Afghanistan, despite official denials, Taliban commanders say, in allegations that could worsen tensions between Pakistan and the United States. A number of middle-ranking Taliban commanders revealed the extent […]
‘Religious Tolerance Bill’ would only entrench discrimination, critics say. By: Sarah Page Compass Direct News Members of a church in Bogor, West Java, are determined to continue meeting outside their sealed building each Sunday until they are granted freedom to worship inside it, despite a ban on street meetings issued by […]
By Prashanth Parameswaran Under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia has emerged as a success story in many ways. It has waged a resilient campaign against terrorism, achieved the third-highest economic growth rate among G-20 countries and demonstrated dynamic leadership within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Moreover, this political […]
Source: Qantara In Germany, Islamic theology is being introduced as a university course – a much debated issue in academic terms, but also politically. In this interview, Mathias Rohe, Germany’s most renowned academic expert on Sharia law, talks about what this means for the development of Islam in Germany and, potentially, on […]
Source: The Local Move over, Alexander Graham Bell, Germany is marking the anniversary of the first phone call today – a century and a half after Johann Philipp Reis first transmitted a spoken sentence over a cable. The age of telephony was not hailed with Bell’s summons to his assistant, […]
Source : The Local This week marks the 50th anniversary of the treaty bringing hundreds of thousands of Turkish “guest workers” to Germany, a move which dramatically altered the fabric of German society. On October 30, 1961, booming West Germany signed a recruitment agreement with Turkey to supplement its workforce. […]
Source: Spiegel International In a major setback for Tunisia’s elite, the Islamist Ennahda Party looks set to lead the country’s first democratically elected government. They appealed to the common people who sought greater credibility in politics. But concerns the country might soon become a new theocracy are exaggerated, because Tunisian Islamists are looking to […]
Sana’a: Hundreds of Yemeni women have set fire to a pile of traditional female veils to protest the government’s brutal crackdown against the country’s popular uprising. Read more
Imagine all the people sharing all the world. When Lennon wrote the lyrics in 1971, the world population was 3.8 billion. In the coming days it will hit seven billion. swissinfo.ch spoke to demographics expert Philippe Wanner about the rise and rise of the global population and asked whether we […]
Rajat K. Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs director who surrendered to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday morning, was charged with insider trading, the latest development in the government’s multiyear crackdown on illegal activity on Wall Street. Mr. Gupta, 62, is accused of leaking corporate secrets on Goldman Sachs […]
By REUTERS ARABNEWS GAZA: Some 5,000 unemployed Palestinians have registered over the past week at a Gaza trade union office for jobs they hope will materialize in post-Qaddafi Libya, local labor officials said on Monday. UN figures put unemployment in the Gaza Strip, a sliver of territory run by the […]
By LISA KAAKI, LISA.KAAKI@ARABNEWS.COM Proceeds will go to Make-A-Wish Foundation The act of buying today is no longer restricted to fulfilling a need or gratifying a whim; it also reflects the buyer’s ethical, political and personal choices. There are green products that awaken and maintain our commitment to safeguarding the […]
By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN | ARAB NEWS World leaders pay homage to Crown Prince Sultan RIYADH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah together with a large number of Saudi royals, heads of state and high-ranking local and foreign officials, bade farewell to the late Crown Prince Sultan, deputy […]