Bahrain blocks paper after Ahmadinejad 'Jewish slur'
23 Jun 2009: Bahrain shut down its oldest daily newspaper for "violating the country's press code," the official news agency reported Monday, a day after the paper published a report that suggested Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was Jewish. The paper, AkhbarMubadala and Occidental sign oil recovery deal with Bahrain
18 Mar 2009: Mubadala Development and the US oil firm Occidental Petroleum have signed an agreement with the Bahraini government to help boost production at the kingdom’s main hydrocarbon reservoir. Together with the National Oil and Gas Authority of Bahrain, theslashnews
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
