source.newsweek Was Richard Nixon too normal? Abraham Lincoln exceptionally deranged? Why we should look for a little bit of crazy in our leaders. By now, the 2012 Republican presidential contenders have all been tattooed by the opposition, branded as boring, damaged, or even insane. The entire GOP is “barking mad,” […]
source.dailytimes.pakistan Creating words and shaping them in an orderly form is the vocation of poets and men of letters. But there are occasions in life when one is left speechless. This is one such occasion for me; I do not have the words with which to adequately thank the Lenin […]
source:cnn.com More: CNN)— Karine Ramadan is a self-confessed teen geek who often spends five hours a day on the internet. She would love to work in technology when she is older, but will have to fight against a stark “gender gap” among Lebanon’s high-tech community, according to activists. Karine, 16, […]
A documentary film, directed and written by writer-director Yashendra Prasad, based on Jesus Christ’s mysterious stay in Kashmir, has been selected to be screened in the prestigious fourth International documentary and short film festival of Kerala to be held from July 31 to August 4 in Tiruananthpuram. The 52-minute English documentary, The Rozabal Shrine of […]
Source:cnn.com (CNN) — England took nine second-innings wickets on the final day’s play against India at Lord’s Monday to take a 1-0 lead in the four-Test series. Stuart Broad took the final wicket of tailender Ishant Sharma to end a remarkable match that saw the fortunes of both teams veer […]
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Congress is at a stalemate over raising the federal debt ceiling, and Americans need to pressure their elected representatives to work out a compromise that will avoid a potentially devastating default, President Obama told the nation Monday night. In his seventh prime time televised address, Obama sought […]
Source/Credit: BBC NEWS Seventy-eight people have been killed in a Moroccan military aircraft crash into a mountain in the south of the country, the army says. The army said three other people were severely wounded in the crash, in what is thought to be one of Morocco’s deadliest air disasters […]
Source/Credit: The Times of Malta The Divorce Bill was approved by the House of Representatives this morning, with 52 voting in favour, 11 against and five abstaining. All Labour MPs voted in favour except Adrian Vassallo, a strong opponent of divorce, who was not present. The vote was greeted with […]
PUNE, India — When Ranjit Date returned to India 20 years ago after earning a doctorate in robotics from an American university, he hoped to help automate factory assembly lines in his home country. His company, Precision Automation and Robotics India, has done that. But more recently it has also […]
Source: Yahoo News Since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, Muslims in the United States have come under much greater scrutiny and have in many cases been harassed for no reason other than that they fit a profile. Boxer Amir Khan […]
Courtesy: National Geographic Click the picture to enlarge it. “He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.” (Al Quran 59:25) How can our study and […]
A famous, almost legendary mystic poet from Punjab Pakistan wrote: پڑھ پڑھ علم تے فاضل ھوییں تے کدے اپنے آپ نوں پڑھیا نھیں بھج بھج وڑناں اے مندر مسیتی وے کدے من اپنے وچ وڑیا نھیں He says that you have read scores of books to become a scholar but have […]
Source: Time Magazine.come Discovering a world of change and challenge in the footsteps of the 14th century explorer Ibn Battuta. World Wanderer By Reza Aslan – July 21, 2011 ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID JOHNSON FOR TIMEThe world that Ibn Battuta experienced in his travels nearly 700 years ago was […]
China has ordered a two-month nationwide safety review of its railways amid public anger at a deadly crash between two bullet trains. Rail minister Sheng Guangzu apologised for the collision in eastern Zhejiang province, saying the campaign would focus on China’s high-speed network. Read More
General Electric (GE) said it is shifting the headquarters of its X-Ray unit to China, in an attempt to capture the fast-growing emerging markets. Read More
source. times magazine on line. It’s 10 minutes to midnight on a Thursday in Riyadh, the start of the Saudi weekend, and even though it’s the middle of finals, Tahlia Street swarms with kids in Porsches and Ferraris looking for a good time. Throbbing bass beats back the syncopated rhythm […]
source.time magazie on line Sometimes the path to spiritual awareness runs through a Turkish suq. Nearly 20 years ago, my wife and I were carpet shopping at Istanbul’s vast Ottoman Grand Bazaar. One salesman, a clean-shaven Muslim youth, invited us to a Sufi do — not one of the whirling-dervish […]
source:time maazine.com Although he did not know it at the time, when a jurist from Tangier named Ibn Battuta left his home in 1325, he was commencing 29 years of travel, visiting everywhere from the Sahara to the China coast. Yet wherever he went, Ibn Battuta found one constant: the […]
source:asiatimes on line Saudi Arabia has reacted sharply to a “new era” in economic and political ties taking shape between its Sunni-dominated ally Pakistan and its Shi’ite rival Iran. Reports that Islamabad sought closer links in the religious sphere by sending devout Sunni scholars to Tehran on a secret mission […]
source.asiatimes on line. A Saudi beacon for Iraq’s Sunni militias Iraqi Shi’ite militias have stepped up attacks on United States troops while al-Qaeda and Sunni forces have exercised restraint, targeting only Shi’ites and refraining from firefights. It seems al-Qaeda has reached an understanding with a foreign power reluctant to be […]