Source: Science Daily Take your time. Hold your horses. Sleep on it. When people must decide between arguably equal choices, they need time to deliberate. In the case of people undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease, that process sometimes doesn’t kick in, leading to impulsive behavior. Some people […]
Kenya’s Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai has died in Nairobi while undergoing cancer treatment. She was 71. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for promoting conservation, women’s rights and transparent government – the first African woman to get the award. read more
By MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Jeddah’s downtown historical center Balad will be a World Heritage Site within two years, according to President of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) Prince Sultan bin Salman. The prince, who is also deputy chairman of the committee for the development […]
The rapid rise in couples who choose to live together without being married may be acting as a “firewall” to stop unstable relationships from ending years later in divorce, according to research. In the early 1960s, fewer than one in 100 adults under the age of 50 were living together […]
A London hospital’s trial of a prostate cancer drug has been stopped early because it was so successful doctors felt it would be “unethical” to deny the treatment to other patients. Medics halted tests of the life-extending drug because it would have been “unethical” not to offer the treatment to […]
The BBC has been accused of bowing to political correctness after it emerged that it was discouraging the use of the terms BC and AD for fear of offending non-Christians. The Corporation’s religion website states that it opts for the “religiously neutral” Common Era and Before Common Era, rather than […]
Israel Democracy Institute survey shows that a third of the Jewish population doesn’t regard Arab citizens as “Israelis.” Disturbing signs of racism have been detected in a poll conducted in March, 2011 on behalf of the Israel Democracy Institute by the Dahaf Institute headed by legendary Israeli pollster Dr. Mina […]
FM Jimenez’s UN speech is particularly dramatic since Spain is considered a leading EU country to support Palestinian rights. Spain’s Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez presented a new policy for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on Saturday, declaring Israel as the homeland of the Jews for the first time and saying that the […]
Solo, Indonesia — At least one person was killed Sunday when a suicide bomber attacked an Indonesian church, officials said, the latest sectarian incident to hit the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation. “I can confirm that there was a suicide bomb attack in Church Bethel Injil at 10:55,” Central Java […]
RIYADH — Saudi King Abdullah announced on Sunday he was giving women the right to vote and run in municipal elections, the only public polls in the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom. He also announced that women would have the right to join the all-appointed Shura (consultative) Council, in an address opening […]
ISLAMABAD: As tension prevails between the United States and Pakistan, Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani summoned Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar back to Islamabad on Sunday for the All Parties Conference (APC). Khar’s presence is said to be vital during the APC as she was one of the few members […]
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Women will join Shoura Council in the next session, and they will also be allowed to contest and vote in the next municipal elections, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah said while addressing Shoura Council on Sunday. King Abdullah announced that women would be […]
Source/Credit: Thurgauer Zeitung, Switzerland By Esther Simon | September 24, 2011 Adopted from a crude translation generated by Google-Translateion: It was peaceful here on Friday morning in a small ‘tent city’ which the organizers have set up near their mosque they had established five years ago in Häusern. The Ahmadiyya […]
Truth about National Assembly of Pakistan 1974. our beloved hazur delivered friday sermon on 17th may 1985
MY AIM AND THE DESIRED OBJECTIVE IS TO SERVE MANKIND! (The Promised Messiah as) “It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or the West, but truly righteous is he who believes in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Book and the Prophets, […]
By MOHAMMED MAR’I ARABNEWS GAZA: The GCC program for the reconstruction of Gaza has succeeded to rebuild hundreds of homes destroyed during the Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip in 2008-2009. Rif’at Diab, the program coordinator in the Strip, told the Voice of Palestine Radio that the program finished the first […]
By AGENCIES ARABNEWS SANAA: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) urged Ali Abdullah Saleh to sign a power transfer plan “immediately” as forces loyal to the Yemeni president attacked pro-opposition troops with mortar shells and heavy gunfire Saturday and rooftop snipers picked off unarmed protesters fleeing in panic. The streets of […]
By Taylor Luck IN THE DRYING marshlands of the Azraq oasis lie the remnants of one of the earliest communities to roam the Levant. Ayn Qasiyya – an Epipalaeolithic site dating back some 20,000 years located in the Azraq Wetlands Reserve – has yielded dozens of secrets from the prehistoric […]
By Matthew Lee The Associated Press, JORDAN TIMES UNITED NATIONS – The Obama administration has managed to buy time and may have staved off an embarrassing and politically awkward showdown over Palestinian statehood at the UN. It may also have manoeuvred itself into a corner.The US and the rest of […]