Election: Kuwait women elected to parliament, deadlock may not end
17 May 2009: KUWAIT - Women won four seats in Kuwait’s parliament, a first in the Gulf Arab state’s history, but with many of the same faces back, Saturday’s election is unlikely to end a political deadlock that has delayed economic reforms. Sunni Islamists lostKuwait cabinet approves dissolving parliament
19 Mar 2009: The Kuwaiti cabinet approved on Wednesday a decree to dissolve parliament and hold fresh elections within two months, a government source told AFP. "The outgoing cabinet held an emergency meeting today and approved a decree dissolving parliament andslashnews
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
