China: Bus fire in Henan kills dozens
A bus has caught fire on a highway in central China, killing at least 41 people on board, state media say. Read More
Foreign universities target Chinese students
Source / Credit: China Daily Foreign universities are getting ready to grab a bigger slice of the education pie in China by firming up their existing partnerships and forging new alliances with Chinese educational institutions. Much of the optimism in Western academic institutions stems from China’s strong economic growth, the […]
Suffocating to death in France’s ageing jails
Within hours of being arrested by French police on minor drug-related charges, Walid Ferdi was dead. His cellmate, Badiaa El Massi, a Tunisian migrant arrested for living in France without a residency permit, lies in an artificial coma in a hospital bed in the town of Tours. Doctors say he […]
Canada hunts ‘war criminals’ inside country
Canada has released the names of 30 suspected war criminals that the government says entered the country without proper migration documents and are staying there illegally. A statement on the Canada Border Services Agency’s (CBSA) website, released on Thursday, says that the people come from countries as far ranging as […]
Hindu diners sue Indian restaurant for selling meat samosas
(CNN) – A small tray of vegetable samosas costs $35 at the Mughal Express restaurant. But one particular tray, sold to strict Hindu vegetarians, might end up costing the Edison, New Jersey, restaurant a whole lot more. The Hindu customers said the restaurant served them meat samosas, harming them emotionally and […]
Egypt’s generals accused of subverting revolution
Source: The Telegraph Egypt’s generals were accused of subverting the country’s pro-democracy revolution on Thursday after they banned international observers from monitoring a vital parliamentary election to be held this autumn. The decision triggered outrage among many of the activists at the forefront of February’s overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the […]
Brazil Torn Over New Oil Riches
Source: The Wall Street Journal RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazil is just starting to tap into some of the biggest oil fields discovered in the past 30 years, but a growing debate over how to distribute the newfound wealth threatens to delay development of reserves that could transform the country into one […]
Brazil wants to expand broadband Internet access
Source: CBS News (AP) BRASILIA, Brazil — The Brazilian government says it plans to expand Internet access in Brazil with low-cost broadband service. Paulo Bernardo Silva says that by 2014, the government wants Internet access to be available to 70 percent of Brazilian homes, compared with today’s 27 percent. Read […]
Biggest European Banks Face $29.7 Billion Writedown on Greek Bondholdings
Europe’s biggest banks stand to lose 20.6 billion euros ($29.7 billion) on their Greek government bonds after lenders in the region pledged to contribute to a new rescue package for Greece. Banks will voluntarily agree to write down the value of their Greek securities by 21 percent as part of […]
Physics student awaits espionage trial in Iran
Source: physicsworld UPDATE July 21, 2011: Omid Kokabee’s trial has been postponed to an unspecified date, according to friends. A doctoral student who was detained when he tried to leave his native Iran earlier this year will go on trial tomorrow for charges related to espionage, according to sources close […]
Meet the US woman who lives with 800 cats and about 15 dogs
Surce: Times of India on Line. NEW YORK: A woman in the US has been featured on a new series of Nat Geo WILD for living alone on her 12 acres of land in California, with close to 800 cats and about 15 dogs. The series, titled ‘The Lady with […]
News of the day
Source: times of india on line. WASHINGTON: It is probably fitting that the scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in Britain is the perfect tabloid story. It appears rich in peculiar twists and phenomenal turns and seemingly offers a freakish parade of powerful people bent on petty if perverse agendas […]
Pyongyang waitresses sliced to perfection
Source: asia times on line. Elite young North Korean girls selected to work in a network of overseas restaurants are instructed by Dear Leader Kim Jong-il to undergo cosmetic eyelid surgery, even though the operation is so popular the girls would have done it anyway. A change underway in beauty […]
Staff of life, bread of death
Source:asiatimes on line. The global food system is straining under the intense pressure of rising demand, rising energy prices, growing water shortages and the onset of climate chaos. This, experts tell us, is only the beginning. The price of bread is forecast to nearly double in the next 20 years, […]
Washington’s singular accomplishment
Source:asiatimes on line. The United States military has gathered biometric data, including eye scans, on one of every 14 Iraqis and one of every 20 Afghans. It may not be the same as winning a world war, building giant steel mills, or other American accomplishments of the past, but in […]
New Zealand bans weird baby names
Source: cnn.com http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Celebrities with a penchant for weird baby names (looking at you, David and Victoria Beckham) should avoid having kids in New Zealand. The country’s Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages has been cracking down on parents who get too creative when naming their kids, Australia’s Herald Sun […]
14-year-old suspected hit man on trial in Mexico
Surce: cnn.com A 14-year-old suspected hit man was captured near Mexico City in December. STORY HIGHLIGHTS In a video, the 14-year-old defendant tells an interrogator he has killed four people “I slit their throats,” the American-born teenager says A children’s rights activist in Mexico says as many as 30,000 youths […]
Next front in America’s war
Source: arabnews.com Pakistan may be the next theater of war as the US military establishment and Israeli lobby expand their campaign Even though it was Colin Powell who rang up Musharraf that cold September morning in 2001 asking him to join America’s war in the finest diplomatese, it was his […]
A second chance
Source: Dawn.com By Cyril Almeida SOMETIMES big decisions turn on simple questions. In the aftermath of 9/11, the question was a simple one: did we get it? Did our generals get that 9/11 was an epochal, seismic shift, that the old way of doing business had to be chucked out, […]
Business ethics in Islam
Source: Dawn.com Initially, different cultures and regions had different ethics of business. With increasing globalisation, the various sets of business ethics are continuously acquiring common values and forms. Islam has given guiding principles for all human activities and also prescribes and explains the ethics of business. More: