Source: Physicsworld The universe was born spinning and continues to do so around a preferred axis – that is the bold conclusion of physicists in the US who have studied the rotation of more than 15,000 galaxies. While most cosmological theories have suggested that – on a large scale – […]
NHS managers are deliberately delaying operations as they wait for patients either to die or go private in order to save money, according to an official report. Health service trusts are “imposing pain and inconvenience” by making patients wait longer than necessary, in some cases as long as four […]
By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN Ideas matter; thoughts have force. This is an obvious truth. It is why pastors preach, why professors profess, and why pundits do whatever they do. Yet whenever ideas do things we do not want them to do, as they did in Oslo , Norway […]
Source / Credit: Human Rights Watch (Geneva) – The adoption by the International Labor Organization (ILO) on June 16, 2011, of a new, groundbreaking treaty to extend key labor protections to domestic workers will protect millions of people who have been without guarantees of their basic rights, Human Rights Watch […]
The Vatican and Malaysia established diplomatic relations on Monday in the wake of tensions between Muslims and religious minorities in the Southeast Asian nation. Read More
Source/Credit: Al Jazeera – http://stream.aljazeera.com/ Believers or heretics? The battle between mainstream Muslims and the Ahmadiyya community In response to requests from our online community, we are focusing on the Ahmaddiya Muslim community. The ongoing battle between Ahmaddiyas and mainstream Muslims has gone largely unreported in the mainstream media. It’s based on […]
France – Wednesday 27 July 2011 In April, French Interior Minister Claude Guéant announced he wanted to cut work-related immigration, claiming that the integration of migrants had failed in France. Now the list of jobs open to non-European immigrants has been halved. Foreign lift-repairers, surveyors and insurance salesmen are no longer welcome. […]
From: Asia Pacific News Jakarta – Indonesia drew international criticism on Thursday as a court handed down light sentences to 12 men convicted in connection with the killing of three followers of the Ahmadiyya Muslim sect. The court in the western Java city of Serang sentenced the defendants to between three […]
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Twelve men were sentenced on Thursday to three to six months’ imprisonment for various charges, starting from limited involvement to masterminding the riot that led to the deaths of 3 minority Ahmadiyah sect members in Banten. Three panels of judges at the Serang District Court levied […]
From: The Jakrata Globe Indonesian Police are putting on a massive display of force as the trials of 10 defendants charged in the brutal violence against members of the minority Ahmadiyah religion in Banten conclude with the verdicts on Thursday morning. One verdict has already been passed, with one youth, […]
Tel Aviv – PNN – (Palestine News Network) Israel’s Defense Ministry has allocated more than NIS 75 million to purchase ‘non-lethal’ weapons to disperse expected Palestinian protests this September, according to ynetnews. The Ministry considers that there will be an increased possibility of confrontations between Palestinian protesters and Israel’s military […]
Arab News The whole system of hiring maids in Saudi Arabia needs govt attention and changes in the law This newspaper regularly publishes stories about maids in the Kingdom — maids attacked, murdered, abused, raped, unpaid, held as prisoners, treated as slaves — and sometimes even maids executed. There is […]
A friend in need is a friend in deed. And that has been proven time and time again by Saudi Arabia, which is more than a friend to Jordan, with the brotherly ties binding the two countries rising to levels that can be exemplary to other Arab states. At a […]
AMMAN (JT) – Jordan and France on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), under which France will provide the Kingdom with 600 million euros ($900 million) to finance development projects for the period 2011-2013. The memo, signed by Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Jafar Hassan and Director General […]
Source: Thursday, 28 July 2011. Sixty years after the signature of the Geneva Convention on Refugees, which has helped millions of men, women and children fleeing persecution, wars and torture, to secure protection and the prospect of a brighter future, the world remains scarred by conflicts new and old. Since […]
New Delhi, July 27 (ANI): Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar met the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, here on Wednesday. She also met Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, today. Thirty four-year-old Khar, who is Pakistan’s first woman foreign minister, met the two leaders after holding talks with External Affairs Minister […]
Source/Credit: The Times of Malta: Thursday, July 28, 2011 , by Laiq Ahmed Atif, president, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta, Ta’ Xbiex Death is as real as life and death is an integral part of life. The life of a human being is limited on this earth and everyone has to leave this world to […]
MULTAN: Jamatud Dawa organised a gathering to unite all religious parties against terrorism, suicide attacks and US and Indian intervention in Pakistan. On Saturday, Prof Hafiz Saeed made an appearance in a gathering organised under the umbrella of the Defence Pakistan Forum in Multan. Saeed led a gathering of […]
Source: Dawn Author: Mahir Ali WESTERN terrorism experts have faced considerable derision in the past few days for jumping to the conclusion, in the immediate aftermath of a bomb blast aimed at governmental offices in central Oslo last Friday, that Al Qaeda had once again picked a relatively soft target. […]
Source: USA Today Steroid drugs such as prednisone taken by 25.5 million Americans for arthritis, cancer, transplants and other conditions need stronger consumer warnings about a rare but possibly irreversible […]