A Saudi journalist working for London-Based Asharq Alawsat says Saudi monarch King Abdullah has been clinically dead since Wednesday. He also quoted medical sources in Saudi Arabia as saying that the king’s vital organs, including his heart, kidneys and lungs, have stopped functioning. Doctors are said to have used a defibrillator on him several times. He… Read more »
Standing at the centre of a crowd, wearing a skull-cap and holding a mobile phone, this is Michael Adebolajo on the anniversary of 9/11 in 2009. Britain’s Mail On Sunday are reporting that he was among hundreds of young Muslims who gathered outside Harrow Central Mosque in North-West London, to ‘defend’ it against a planned joint… Read more »
David Cameron is planning new powers to muzzle Islamic hate preachers accused of provoking terrorist outrages such as the killing of soldier Lee Rigby. The Prime Minister wants to stop extremist clerics using schools, colleges, prisons and mosques to spread their ‘poison’ and is to head a new Tackling Extremism and Radicalisation Task Force (TERFOR) … Read more »
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short third novel, The Great Gatsby, – is shot through with flashes of gorgeous description, satiric wit, and bursts of dialogue that perfectly capture the ennui, emptiness and vulgar excess of the roaring twenties. The story centers on a mysterious con man, Long Island millionaire bootlegger, Jay Gatsby, and his pipe… Read more »
Barbara Walters, the first woman to co-anchor a U.S. evening news program, will announce her retirement on “The View” on Monday, ABC network said. Walters, got her start in television journalism in 1961 as a writer on NBC’s “Today.” In 1976, she became the first woman to co-anchor a television evening news broadcast on any U.S…. Read more »
Many people have bucket lists but one New York man started on a project which will no doubt earn him a place in the good book. It took four years, but today having written out every word of the Bible, Phillip Patterson penned the very last words at St. Peter’s Presbyterian Church in Spencertown Upstate… Read more »
“‘Mounting evidence’ links Tsarnaev brothers to earlier triple homicide,” from RT, There is “mounting evidence” which suggests that Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were involved in an unsolved triple homicide in 2011, according to Massachusetts investigators.Forensic evidence from the crime scene matched the brothers’ DNA, and cell phone records put them in… Read more »
If you were surprised by the recent attacks in Boston Commissioner Raymond Kelly wasn’t.”When something like Boston happens, it’s a shock to the public, but not to us.” Kelly said adding that he was also surprised such an attack did not happen sooner. “We’ve seen these types of disaffected, radicalized young men target us.” Yet… Read more »
Spending 15 million dollars is a problem few of us will have but for one unidentified buyer, the answer was as easy as going going gone. An early casting of Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker, has sold for $15.285 million at Sotheby’s New York, and did not take too much time to think about at all…. Read more »
While Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s uncle has arrived to pick up his nephew’s body in Worcester Mass, the funeral home is still having problems finding a burial ground. Funeral director Peter Stefan, says he has still been unable to find a single cemetery willing to take the body. Now the funeral director is lashing out… Read more »
