Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working […]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a pioneer in offering online college courses and they still have the most diverse and in-depth collection of classes available anywhere. Their online offering is an archived version of real courses that have been taught at MIT. For more information: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Khanacademy.org has a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history o help you learn whatever you want, whenever you want, at your own pace. All of the site’s resources are available to anyone. It doesn’t matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to […]
Let’s hope phone-hacking scandin the UK will finally help rein in his evil empire Is this Britain’s own Watergate with consequences that could prove as disastrous for Cameron as they had been for Nixon? The prime minister may try hard to put up a brave face, pretending to be outraged […]
A three-week long camel race was opened at the Orfa Race Course in Taif on Friday. This is part of the National Festival for Heritage and Culture currently being celebrated in Taif. The winners in various items will be awarded 25 prizes,director of the festival Saud Al-Romi said on Saturday. […]
Mossad agents dressed as Greek fishermen, sabotaged propellers and mistakenly blown-up pipelines were among farcical elements of the Second Freedom flotilla’s murky tale, and “sexy” Israel’s propaganda response was no less ludicrous or self-destructive. While the neo-rivalry Tel Aviv stoked between Greece and Turkey may end this adventure, the flotilla’s […]
Sheikh Saud bin Al Thani is a passionate collector of art. Over the past few years, the sheikh — a cousin of the emir of Qatar — has been frantically buying artworks and objects related to the erstwhile Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Holkar II of Indore, another passionate patron who led […]
Why do we get tired by noon? (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images) There is something about the post lunch hour, when a sense of boredom creeps in and time weighs so heavy that you can almost hear the clock tick. As the sun shines brightest upon the day, we feel an urge […]
Many internet security companies have created solutions to help parents keep track of their children’s online activities BANGALORE: When NikitaShenoy, a 38-year-old finance professional, realized her 14-year-old son is most of the time on the internet, she decided to keep track of him on cyber space.Aghast by the type of […]
NEW YORK: A Pakistan couple are suing American Airlines after they were handcuffed and escorted out of a plane based on a phone call with a hijacking threat, which turned out to be a hoax. “The only reason police went to them is because their names were Maheen Ghani Taseer […]
The Security Council currently has five veto-wielding permanent members—Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States—and 10 non-permanent members elected for two-year terms. -File Photo UNITED NATIONS: The intensive six-year campaign by India and three other aspirants for permanent seats on the UN Security Council, Brazil, Germany and Japan has […]
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A poll showing the strengthening of the “rightist-haredim” bloc was published here last weekend. According to the poll, under any circumstances we shall see the Likud leader elected for prime minister, and he would be able to choose a centrist or rightist coalition without having to contend with a hostile […]
A group of Indonesian climbers successfully reached the summit of Alaska’s Mount McKinley on Thursday, completing their goal of reaching the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. The ascent of the 6,194-meter-high McKinley, also known as Denali, makes the four climbers from Parahyangan Catholic University in Bandung — […]
While talking to Media and as reported by the New York Times, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday, 07.07.2011, that he believed that the government of Pakistan had “sanctioned” the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of Islamic militants into […]
By Eveline Kobler and Alexander Künzle, swissinfo.ch Terror attacks, political manoeuvering by rightwing parties and oversimplification in the media explain why Muslims in Switzerland are perceived as a threat. The National Research Programme 58 study into religious pluralism says immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries have been singled out even though this group has […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Married Saudi women say rules that prevent them from recruiting maids from abroad are a violation of their rights. Married women are not allowed to recruit maids; they have to be a widow or a divorcee before they can. A number of women expressed their anger […]
By MD IRFAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: An Indian maid who was injured while attempting to escape from her employer wants to perform Umrah before she leaves the country. The woman, identified as Shabana from Hyderabad, India, came to work for a family in the southern city of Abha. She […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Heritage Village, housed in the Jeddah International Center for Forums and Events, is a special point of attraction to tourists visiting to the 70-day Jeddah Summer Festival, the longest summer festival in Saudi Arabia, featuring 100 plus events. The festival was formally opened by Makkah […]
By Hana Namrouqa SHAUMARI WILDLIFE RESERVE – The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) is currently introducing Arabian Oryx from Saudi Arabia to the Shaumari Wildlife Reserve. The measure seeks to prevent inbreeding and subsequent genetic disorders in Arabian Oryx herds in the reserve, according to Shaumari Wildlife […]