NEWS

Anti-Islamic adverts are to appear on New York buses next week, funded by a pro-Israel group with a history of provocative campaigns.   One features an image of James Foley, the American journalist, flanked a member of the so-called Islamic…

The auction house Sotheby’s has put a collection of 52 original architectural drawings and 216 photographs of the first expansion of the Prophet’s Mosque, peace be upon him, in the holy city of Medina in 1951.   The documents, which…

A court in Bahrain sentenced 14 activists to life in prison in connection with an explosion that wounded four policemen last year.    Since mid-February 2011, thousands of anti-regime protesters have held numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain, calling…

According to security sources a Kuwaiti princess was arrested in Beirut, at the Rafik Hariri Airport after the authorities find that she was carrying illegal drugs.    The princess was subsequently taken into custody. Her identity remains unknown for obvious…

Many Shia pilgrims, pouring to the sacred land to perform the rites of Hajj for this year, have expressed dissatisfaction with what they described as racist and sectarian practices committed by employees in the Saudi airports who receive delegations of…

Shia Rights Watch Organization has stressed the necessity of urgent release of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr by the Saudi authorities immediately and without delay or procrastination for social and humanitarian considerations.   The organization said that the arrest of Sheikh al-Nimr…

A sleep-promoting circuit located deep in the primitive brainstem has revealed how we fall into deep sleep. This is only the second ‘sleep node’ identified in the mammalian brain whose activity appears to be both necessary and sufficient to produce…

A series of educational programs on the Holy Quran and Hadith teachings are planned to be aired on Radio Mauritania.   According to Mauritanian News Agency, the scientific programs have been produced with the aim of developing Quran and Hadith…

The first calligraphy exhibition featuring the names of the Holy Prophet of Islam, peace be upon him and his progeny, was held in Tunisia.   More than one hundred calligraphy works by Tunisian artists were exhibited at the event. Addressing…

A Shia bank cashier was shot dead in a terrorist attack in the presence of his children in district central of Karachi.   Eye witnesses said that the martyr was on his way to drop his children at school when…