Millionaire spooked from mansion

When the real estate market drops, blame the ghost !"A millionaire businessman from Nottinghamshire has said ghosts forced him to flee his 52-room mansion. Clifton Hall was bought by Anwar Rashid for £3.6m in 2007, but he has now handed it back to the bank. Mr Rashid claimed...

Bahrain's first Olympic medal ever is gold

Bahrain, a 250-square-mile nation with 708,000 inhabitants and an anthem called Bahrainona, has been awarded its first ever Olympic medal, as Rashid Ramzi won gold in the men's 1,500-meter race. "Some 91,000 fans...

AN AMERICAN 'HONOR KILLING' - Will you ignore another one?

America must make a stand, because many Europeans either can't or won't.An OP-ED by John Avlon, New York Post"By JOHN P. AVLONPosted: 4:02 amJuly 23, 2008 ON July 6, police say, a Pakistani named Chaudhry Rashid...

Resurgence of Screenwriters in the Indian Film Industry

"There's a buzz in the Indian film industry that the writers are coming back in a major way. The recent success of films offering good scripts and new stories has started the latest trend of new script writers being...

Georgia Man Killed Own Daughter to Protect Family Honor

"Honor killings and family name are still seen as a major part of life for immigrants despite where they live. In the UK, many stories exist of such acts especially amongst the South Asian communities but it was something that usually didn't hit the news in the USA. This...

Master Plan for a Spectacular New City Unveiled in Dubai

"Dubai (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai, and Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, has unveiled ambitious plans for an entire city to be built in the desert.Respectful of the region's cultural heritage in both...

Politisite, The Clinton's Prosper under a Bush Economy

The Politisite Weekend Rant : The Clinton's Prosper under a Bush EconomyBy Albert N. Milliron The Math Doesn't Add up.  Anyone figure out that 15.4 Million is not accounted for?  That is where you should...

Malaysian election chief`s home vandalised: police

""They used red paint and it was splashed all over the gates. We are still investigating who is behind this," deputy police chief Ismail Omar told AFP after the early-morning attack.Election Commission chairman Abdul...

Architecture: Boxes? No! Blobs? No! Boring? Never!

lots of props for NY-based Asymptote architecture in this article from Lisa Rochon:  " There was a point when the drawings and renderings by Asymptote, a New York firm led by two Canadians, Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, were enough. When building their designs...

Microsoft Research and Indian Institute of Science to collaborate

""Our mission is to conduct state-of-the-art research and apply technology to reduce the time to insights for scientific discovery and drive innovations. We aim to empower scientists by providing them advanced computing technologies across scientific domains," said Tony Hey,...

Profile: Abdul Rashid Ghazi

He is bespectacled and articulate - an alumnus of one of Pakistan's most prominent universities, the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. This may not fit one's mental image of a militant Islamist, a jihadi. But...

LtGen James Mattis' Reading List

"LtGen James Mattis' Reading List Commander, United States Marine Corps Forces, Central Command Reading List Commander's Intent: The Global War on Terrorism is a long war, and as such we need to continue our preparation to be engaged in all aspects of this war. For our...

I Was An IslamoFascist For MI6

"My pal Rambling Socialist picked up on the fact that the master of self deception, President Musharraf of Pakistan in his new book claims that Omar Saeed Sheikh was a British Spy for MI6."

Phony Al Qaeda Caper

"the Israeli Mossad and other Israeli intelligence services have been involved in a 13-month effort to *recruit* an Israeli-run, phony *al Qaeda cell* among Palestinians"

Trans-Atlantic bomb plot planner was Jaish member

"NEW DELHI: New evidence has emerged that Rashid Rauf, identified by Pakistani authorities as the leader of a plot to blow up at least 10 Trans-Atlantic flights, was a former member of the Jaish-e-Mohammad — an organisation that, along with the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hiz-bul...

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from