German cop, judges cleared in 'veil martyr' murder case
01 Jan 2010: BERLIN - German investigators have dropped a probe into a policeman who shot an Egyptian trying to stop his pregnant wife being stabbed to death in a courtroom in July, a spokesman for prosecutors said Wednesday. Prosecutors also said there were noGerman woman banker admits transferring money from rich to help poorer clients
25 Nov 2009: In these financially troubled times, bankers tend not to score too highly on the scale of public admiration, with their bonuses, bailouts and bad loans. But today details emerged of a woman who may confound the popular view that everyone in the industryMuslim woman assaulted in Germany
20 Nov 2009: A Muslim medical student wearing a headscarf has been beaten up in Gottingen, Germany, in what appears to be a racist attack. The Muslim woman, whose identity has not been disclosed, suffered grazes and bruises after she was knocked to the ground andGermany's Muslims Wary After Headscarf Martyr Trial
17 Nov 2009: Dozens of reporters from Germany, Egypt and other Muslim countries packed into a Dresden courtroom last week to hear the verdict against the Russian émigré accused of stabbing to death a pregnant Egyptian woman who's since been dubbed the "headscarfGerman 'veil martyr' trial begins
26 Oct 2009: A man accused of killing a pregnant Egyptian woman in court in an attack is to go on trial in Germany. Prosecutors say the defendant, identified as Alex W, stabbed Marwa al-Sherbini at least 16 times in three minutes on July 1, in the same courthouseFuel rods damaged at jinxed German nuclear plant
09 Jul 2009: Swedish electricity giant Vattenfall admitted Thursday to additional problems at one of its German nuclear power stations, which caught fire several days ago just after a two-year refit from a previous fire. Blunders at the Kruemmel power station haveEuropean Islamophobia A Creeping Threat: Analysis
07 Jul 2009: The murder of Marwa Sherbini, a veiled (and pregnant) Egyptian woman, as she prepared to give evidence in a German courtroom against a man who physically assaulted her, has incensed the Muslim World and re-ignited the debate over whether Europe is a trulyFamily Mourns Germany's "Hijab Martyr"
05 Jul 2009: Dalia Shams was counting the days to welcome home her pregnant daughter, her husband and their four-year-old son. Now, she will only get a closed casket with the body of her daughter Marwa al-Sherbini, who was stabbed to death by a German racist in aEurozone unemployment rate almost tops 10%
03 Jun 2009: Official data show the unemployment rate in the 16-nation eurozone has topped 9.2 percent in April, the highest level in almost ten years. Figures confirm countries using the euro currency lost a total of 396,000 jobs in April due to deepening recessionMerkel seeks bond co-ordination
27 Feb 2009: Angela Merkel has called for global co-ordination of debt issuance to ensure that governments do not drive up borrowing costs by competing against each other in the capital markets. The German chancellor’s comments highlight worries about large volumesGermany's Hijab Ban Discriminatory: HRW
26 Feb 2009: CAIRO — Laws banning teachers from wearing hijab in Germany discriminate against Muslim women who feel being targeted by laws that violate the very essence of their rights, a leading international human rights group said on Thursday, February 26. "TheGermany and Poland square up in row over war
21 Feb 2009: Berlin and Warsaw are locked in a political row over plans to appoint a German conservative MP accused of playing down Nazi war crimes to run a new museum dedicated to the plight of Germans forced out of eastern Europe after the Second World War. TheBank woes forces Germany into nationalisation law
19 Feb 2009: LONDON - The German cabinet approved a law on Wednesday letting it nationalise banks, setting aside a reluctance to seize private property in the latest government intervention worldwide to tackle the financial crisis. Germany said it was not planning toEurope ambushes Germany on debt bail-out
10 Feb 2009: EU finance ministers are to discuss proposals over breakfast in Brussels today for some form of "debt-agency" or mechanism for the EU to raise bonds, a move seen by diplomats as a ploy to ambush Germany into accepting shared responsibility for EU debtsDeutsche Bank bonuses cut by 60%
06 Feb 2009: Deutsche Bank will next week slash bonuses for its City-based investment bankers and others by about 60% after running up pre-tax losses approaching €6bn (£5.2bn) in 2008. Germany's biggest bank indicated that it is to scale back bonuses further thisslashnews
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
