Dina al-Shibeeb: Is Iran helping Iraq to become a civilian nuclear power?
23 Sep 2011: In the game I call politics, it is OK for western allies such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan to go nuclear provided they are able to prove that the endeavor is purely of a civilian nature. Even if countries are not western allies, if they want toEgyptian Breakthrough in Stem Cells
05 Jul 2011: Scientists all over the world are trying to discover more about stem cells to understand how they transform into specialized human body cells. Studying stem cells and their development will help us know the cause of serious health cases like birth defectsMedical Issues and Qur'an
04 Nov 2010: Most of us are intrigued by the connection between contemporary medicine and the holy Muslim book, the Qur'an, especially the analysis of hadiths and scientifically proven facts. There are a lot of misinterpretations and misconceptions between medicineIraqs neighbouring states drastically reducing the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates
04 Sep 2009: Dam projects by neighbouring states are drastically reducing the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates and helping to turn a once-fertile plain into desert. Phil Sands and Nizar Latif report as an environmental crisis deepens As bombs continue to tear apartTunisian teenager simplifies Bernoulli's theorem
03 Sep 2009: A 19-year-old student, Karim Ghariani, has discovered a new way of mathematically proving Bernoulli's theorem, an equation applied to calculations about speed and pressure of fluids. Ghariani, a first-year student at Insat, the National Institute ofIran has complete cycle for processing nuclear fuel: president
04 Sep 2009: TEHRAN, April 11 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that his country now has a complete cycle for producing and processing nuclear fuel, local Fars news agency reported. "Iran now is a country that has (a complete nuclear) fuel cycleThe Decimal and Islamic Mathematics
03 Sep 2009: Muslim mathematicians were the first people to write numbers the way we do, and, although we are the heirs of the Greeks in geometry, part of our legacy from the Muslim world is our arithmetic. This is true even if it was Hindu mathematicians in India,Natural Energy plan downsized as wind farm giant slashes cost
03 Sep 2009: Plans to build hundreds of wind farms were thrown into disarray last night after the worlds biggest investor in wind power said that it was slashing its investment programme in Britain. The decision comes less than two months after ministers backed aNo proof of Tehran making N-bomb
03 Sep 2009: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said there was no proof that Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon and urged the West to respect and reach out to Tehran. “There is no proof that Iran has even decided to make a bomb,” he told the BrusselsFirestorms and Deep Freeze: Climate Change May Bring Both
03 Sep 2009: Last week, the heaviest snowfall since the '90s blanketed the U.K., disrupting bus, rail and air transportation and costing areas like London a cool billion in lost revenue. Meanwhile, in Australia, a punishing, record drought was worsened by the nation'sIran produces its first solar-powered vehicle
03 Sep 2009: TEHERAN, Iran - Irans first solar-powered vehicle began its test trip on Sunday. The car began its 420-kilometer (261-mile) test-drive to the central city of Isfahan, Karen Abrinia, the leader of the project at Teheran University, told state television.Questions dog Chinese dam project
03 Sep 2009: Construction is set to finish next week on the world's largest hydropower project, but its critics say that the lessons about its environmental consequences are yet to be learned. With the last of the concrete being poured nearly a decade after ChinaIran announces it has joined world's nuclear nations
03 Sep 2009: The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said his country had joined the group of nations possessing nuclear technology in a move that is certain to aggravate Tehran's nuclear stand-off with the West. "At this historic moment, with the blessings of GodCharting the lost innovations of Muslims
03 Sep 2009: It is the thread that links cars, carpets and cameras and is also responsible for three-course meals, bookshops and modern medicine. The Islamic civilisation, according to the curators of a national exhibition that opened this week, has made an enormousChina fights to hold back sands
03 Sep 2009: China declared its first victory in a centuries-old war against the desert yesterday after a campaign to plant 12bn trees in five years finally made a small green dent in an ocean of sand dunes and dustbowls. It is being hailed as a sign of a buddingslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
