The strange case of the ex-editor with Scottish blood who just can't resist attacking Scotland (The Scotsman)
KELVIN MacKenzie likes to consider himself a latter-day "hammer of the Scots"....more...Muslim medical students get picky (Times Online)
Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs....more... Burundi education minister visits school (Potomac News)
As of last week C.D. Hylton High School junior Phillip Munck probably could have picked out Burundi on a map. But that was about the extent of his knowledge of the small country in sub-Saharan Africa....more... Patriarch wants action against climate change (Kathimerini)
Greenland?s foreign minister, Aleqa Hammond, addressing the symposium (above). Water in the country?s fjords is no longer icing over, she reported, meaning that local people can no longer hunt on them. Since 2004, food supplies have had to be sent to villagers in winter....more... Creationism can be a topic in class (Daily Telegraph)
Teachers have been given permission to discuss the controversial theory of creationism in science lessons....more... Immigration estimates out by 45,000 a year (Daily Telegraph)
Immigration will add almost five million people to the population over the next 25 years, according to official estimates published....more... Iranian President Ahmadinejad Delivers Remarks at U.N. General Assembly Meeting (Washington Post)
SPEAKER: IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD [*] AHMADINEJAD (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): In the name of God, the compassionate and the merciful, oh, God, hasten the arrival of Imam al-Mahdi and grant him good health and victory and make us his followers and those who attest to his rightfulness. ... ...more... Full text of Ahmadinejad appearance at Columbia University (Payvand Iran News)
PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD: Oh, God, hasten the arrival of Imam al- Mahdi and grant him good health and victory, and make us his followers and those who attest to his (rightfulness ?)....more... Heroics of airport staff (Pakistani Newspaper)
by Rauf Klasra ISLAMABAD, Sep 11: The story of the "unlikely heroes" (dozens of Islamabad airport staff) who spontaneously started clapping and cheering as Nawaz Sharif emerged from the plane on Monday in the presence of secret agencies officials, found no mention in the local media....more... |