KUALA LUMPUR: The Government has set the ceiling price for various household items under the Hari Raya 2011 festive season price control scheme. Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said 20 items have been classified as price-controlled items under the scheme, to prevent any profiteering […]
Source/Credit: The Times / Malta/ Tuesday, August 16, 2011/ By: Albert Fenech Learn the lessons of history but, unfortunately, we never do. The eventual ending of the world, of our planet earth, has been predicted since man contrived the written word and, subsequently, has been expounded in a million and one […]
Source/Credit News&Photo: The Times / Malta / Remembering migrants who died at sea – crossing over from North Africa to Europe – during an ecumenical service in Grand Harbour last June. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi Nearly 2,000 immigrants died in the Mediterranean during the first seven months of this […]
Source/Credit: Daily Dawn Pakistan: By A.B Arisar UMERKOT: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani visited a fake relief camp set up in Kunri on Monday only for the visit. The prime minister, who was accompanied by federal ministers Syed Naveed Qamar and Syed Khursheed Shah and Sindh Chief Minister Syed […]
I now turn to the slavery which in practice results from economic conditions. Before I go on to explain the remedies which Islam has proposed in this field, it is necessary to remind ourselves of the theories which lead to that discrimination between the rich and the poor which we […]
http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:394630 The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook This would feel very familiar to Ahmadis who have attempted to bring the message of peace out.
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: More than 1,000 women have applied for 20 vacancies in Saudi Arabian Airlines’ IT department in a single day when the company started receiving applications on Monday. An official from the company expected a huge number of women to apply for the limited number of jobs […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS Published: Aug 16, 2011 23:10 Updated: Aug 16, 2011 23:18 JEDDAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah will lay the foundation stone for a new expansion of the Grand Mosque in Makkah on Friday, it was announced on Tuesday. The new […]
Source/Credit: Huffington Post By Joshuha Stanton Contrary to common assumptions, many Jewish and Muslim Americans enjoy warm relations. Yet we are only beginning to understand how and why this is so. A Gallup report released last week goes a long way to explaining this unexpected trend and shows that the […]
Courtesy: NY Times Op-Ed Columnist Published: August 15, 2011 By JOE NOCERA When the German economy turned south after the 2008 financial crisis, the pain was mitigated by a program known as “Kurzarbeit.” The word means short work. Instead of laying off workers, German companies cut back their hours. The […]
Source: Telegraph Mexican troops have discovered an unfinished 980-foot tunnel beneath the US border designed to smuggle drugs and people. The entrance to the tunnel was inside a house in the border town of Tijuana that was made to appear as though it was under construction, said Mexican General Alfonso […]
Courtesy: NY Times By JOHN MARKOFF Published: August 15, 2011 PALO ALTO, Calif. — A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more than 58,000 students around the globe — a class nearly four […]
Source: Science Daily Rats exposed to stress during early development inherit the effects of that stress to their offspring, largely expressed in behavior impairments but also characteristics of resilience, shows a new study from the University of Haifa, published in the journal Developmental Psychobiology. Providing environmental enrichment to the future mother […]
Source: The National The appearance of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in a Cairo courtroom on Monday reassured millions of Egyptians that their revolutionary struggle was not in vain. But as the trial is now merged with that of the former minister of interior, Habib El Adly, (along with Mr […]
Source: Brazzil Magazine Brazilian success is being vastly praised inside and outside the country and there are good reasons for this. In the last two decades, the Brazilian economy not only conquered the hyperinflation of the 1980s, but also reduced poverty by almost 70% since 1994. Due to stabilization, economic […]
I could have added it to my earlier article about the Swiss boy’s journey to Islam, as it was a short journey onward to Ahmadiyyat: the True Islam. The first issue of the Holy Quran in German translation that I read was from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Switzerland. The address […]
In an earlier article, Mr. Qasim Rashid has suggested that it was about time that polygamy should be legalized in America, which can be read here at the Muslim Times. On the one hand, I would like to second Mr. Qasim Rashid’s request that it is about time that polygamy is legalized in Western […]
Pravda Ru: The problem of hunger becomes more and more serious for millions of people around the world. A recent report from the World Bank said that food prices had grown by 33 percent since July 2010 and neared the peak level of 2008. The situation with food reserves in […]
Rfi France: French growth will slow in 2012 to 1.9 per cent from 2.1 per cent this year, the report predicts. The French government’s 2012 forecast is 2.25 per cent growth. France is the eurozone’s second-biggest economy after Germany. “Progress is being made in fiscal consolidation but more efforts might […]
Rfi France. The markets are watching anxiously ahead of a meeting on Tuesday in Paris between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to discuss ways to try to resolve the eurozone debt crisis. For Details: http://www.english.rfi.fr/economy/20110816-sarkozy-and-merkel-meet-discuss-eurozone-debt-crisis