Hailing from countries as varied as Togo and Sri Lanka, Poland and the Dominican Republic, immigrant students made their mark among The City University of New York’s Class of 2011, winning competitive academic honors and heading for some of the finest graduate programs in the world. High-achieving immigrants graduating from […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer people bought previously occupied homes in May, lowering sales to their weakest point of the year. Home sales sank 3.8 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.81 million homes, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday. That’s far below the roughly 6 […]
A medical team from the US is in the country to train, educate and share ideas with surgical providers in the country. Humanity First, USA Chapter has sent under the programme 14 medical volunteers, surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses from the John Hopkins University Hospital of California and San Francisco to […]
One of the Indian Primier Mirar Ji Desai was famous to drink his urine. He used to argue that it enhaces the lfie span. Did US authroities know this argument of Mirar Ji Desai? Probably not. Other wise they could have avoided this big flush PORTLAND, OREGON: Call it the […]
Life on earth has always been a challenge for mankind, surviving between problems, material as well as spiritual. At different times, there were different problems; there were always hurdles to be overcome and threatening dangers to be conquered. One of the distinctive characteristics of the times we live in is […]
NAQAB, June 21, 2011 (WAFA) – Bulldozers of the Israeli Ministry of Interior, under police protection, Tuesday demolished Palestinian homes in several Arab villages unrecognized by the Israeli government in Naqab, in southern Israel. Three homes have been demolished so far, and Israeli army forces are roaming additional areas in […]
ISLAMABAD: Authorities detained a serving brigadier suspected for ties with a banned organisation, BBCUrdu said in a report on Tuesday. The report of the brigadier’s detention was confirmed by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), DawnNews quoted BBCUrdu as saying. The senior army officer Brigadier Ali Khan was posted at the GHQ, the BBCUrdu […]
JERUSALEM, June 21, 2011 (WAFA) – Extremist Jewish organization, the Israel Land Fund (ILF), Tuesday instigated in a press release to demolish Muhammad al-Fateh mosque in Silwan, a town south of Jerusalem, under the pretext of ‘illegal’ restoration work going on in the mosque. The mosque, also known as Ras al-Amud […]
Could Ruyati Binti Sapubi have been spared from the gallows in Saudi Arabia? The government must now explain to the public yet another failure to protect its citizens abroad. The 54-year-old Ruyati was hanged on Saturday for the 2010 murder of a Saudi woman who employed her as a servant. […]
This article was originally published in the summer 2011 volume of the Muslim Sunrise. The Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace be on him, said and it is common knowledge among the Muslim circles, “In the Latter Days, the sun shall rise from the West.” The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community believes […]
Undercover Israeli intelligence officers appeared on national television Saturday to talk about assassinating Palestinians in a program broadcast on Israel’s Channel 10. Oren Beaton presented a photo album of Palestinians he killed during his time as a commander of an undercover Israeli unit operating in the northern West Bank city […]
Hybrids may be touted as the vehicles of the future – but not the kind put together by a teenager in the eastern Swiss village of Jonschwil. The unnamed 17-year-old welded together the front of a moped and the back of a Renault Clio, and stuck the back of the […]
By ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT: Syria’s president promised a national dialogue Monday to consider political reforms, but his vague overtures to a pro-democracy uprising fell flat as protesters took to the streets shouting “Liar!” and demanding his ouster. In only his third public appearance since the revolt erupted in March, Bashar […]
By MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: A group of young Saudi philanthropists has launched an e-portal in Riyadh on Monday to help Saudi and expatriate women to find employment in the Kingdom. Glowork (www.glowork.net) is the first website in the GCC that aims to provide fully-fledged career guidance to […]
By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS DAMMAM: Rumors of expatriates having their exit-re-entry visas switched to exit-only visas at airports have no basis, said Passport Department officials across the Kingdom. “There is absolutely no truth to it,” said Mohammad Al-Husayn, spokesman for the Passport Department in Makkah province. “If it […]
PARIS (AFP) – France is deeply concerned about Israel’s authorisation for the expansion of 2,000 settlement homes built on occupied Palestinian land in East Jerusalem, the foreign ministry said Monday. “Our position is constant: settlement building is illegal in the eyes of international law, in the West Bank as well […]
By Thameen Kheetan AMMAN – Divisions have surfaced among Jordan’s elite over the ongoing unrest in the northern neighbour Syria. Many writers, academicians and activists have engaged in a series of tit-for-tat statements, reflecting conflicting positions on street demonstrations in Syria, which President Bashar Assad described as part of a […]
The Church of England needs to embrace affirmative action to increase the number of priests from ethnic minorities and the number of non-white parishioners, both of which lag changes in the wider population, a report has said. The report, which the church has produced ahead of the meeting of the […]