Jehad or Jihad has a great significance in Islam and in the life of a Muslim. Jehad means financial and physical sacrifice made for the protection and promotion of Islam.
Jehad or Jihad has a great significance...
"I suppose that we have all seen cartoons of elderly gentlemen carrying placards containing our text. "Prepare to meet thy God". It seems almost as if this prophecy, first spoken by the prophet Amos, has become a joke. The end of the world is at hand, so, just in case there...
"Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid – Image Credit: AFP
The Real Survivor Fiji – European Resolve
The USA lite of the European Union, where the Commissioners of a...
Aviation business is undergoing a tough time especially after soaring fuel price and many airlines are cutting short their routes and also doing exercise to control the cost. Now Air Canada, a big north...
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This is an idea that will catch in many parts of the world especially for Catholic "first-communion" and "confirmation" as kids prefer getting cash."Mazel Tov! Israeli weddings introduce ATMs Thursday, 10 July 2008 17:51 A new...
"An alleged brothel-on-wheels that authorities said they busted over the weekend gives a whole new meaning to keeping the party moving.Miami Beach undercover detectives who paid a $40 entry fee and boarded a stretch...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe worlds population multiplying by leaps and bounds, going from 1 billion in 1830 to 6.4 Billion today due to medical advancements, nutrition etc.It only takes 13 years...
" Council bans 'anti-teen' gadget Kent County Council in south east England has become one of the first in the UK to ban mosquito gadgets from its buildings. The devices...
HuffPo has an interesting angle on President Bush's visit to Israel this week. A worthwhile read for anyone interested in the region's history."Air Force One is traveling back in time Tuesday, banking low near...
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Work can become an obsession for many of us, either because we aim to deliver or are trying so hard to find meaning in our daily gring suggests Lucy Kellaway in Aim low to find meaning at work (FT, May 12).She comments on a recent report from the Work Foundation titled...
I guess this is one way to take a stand on politics!"Ballot stuffing took on a new meaning in Italy's parliamentary election on Sunday when a man ate his ballot paper in protest at the country's politicians. ...
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"Chinese doctors have reported that human-to-human transmission likely occurred in a small family cluster of H5N1 avian flu cases in China late last year.A 52-year-old man from Jiangsu province fell ill with the virus after helping care for his son, 24. The younger man died...
"(AP) A pair of lawyers - one Republican, one Democrat - have concluded that John McCain's 1936 birth outside the continental United States does not disqualify him to be president. The likely Republican nominee...
Just when you thought it was safe to not go out again..."The search engine giant trained its Web crawling software on billions of Web addresses over the past year looking for malicious pages that tried to attack...
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Why is it that black is the color of mourning in the West, but white is customary in Asian cultures?Somber clothes at times of grief go back at least as far as the Old Testament. Rudolph Zehnpfund ("Mourning Customs....