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Reconstructed hymens are forbidden, Saudi religious scholars say
Riyadh - Saudi religious scholars remain firm in their position that hymen-reconstruction surgery was haram, or religiously forbidden, contradicting Egyptian clerics, the Saudi daily Okaz reported Thursday. It is not permissible to repair a hymen ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Doors shut as psychologist testifies at German murder trial
Dresden- A psychologist briefed German judges behind closed doors Thursday on the mental state of Alex W, the xenophobic unemployed man who killed an Egyptian woman and wounded her husband with a knife in a Dresden courtroom in July. The stabbing dea...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Around 5,480 people convert to Islam through mobile hotline
Riyadh - Around 5,480 people converted to Islam in Saudi Arabia through the Bring me to Islam cell phone hotline service, media reports said on Thursday. The service, provided in 12 languages, was launched to raise awareness among foreign communiti...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Opel workers to strike over General Motors U-turn
Berlin - Workers at all four of troubled-carmaker Opel's plants in Germany were set to strike Thursday, following owner General Motors' surprise announcement that it would not now sell off its European subsidiary. The Detroit-based automotive giant s...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Cars (General) ]

Lifestyle trends, 5th November 2009
New York - People who work in offices where the lunchroom has a shared refrigerator know the problem: Colleagues sometimes steal each other's lunch. ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Homes (General) ]

Save your relationship by tango dancing
Frankfurt - Tango dancing could help patch up troubled relationships, according to the German Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention (DGSP). It cited a study done at Frankfurt University in which levels of the stress hormone cortisol and the sex ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Homes (General) ]

Eleven-fold murder suspect held without bond in Ohio - Summary
Washington - An 11-fold serial murder suspect in Cleveland, Ohio, was ordered held without bail on Wednesday after prosecutors said he posed a great danger to the public. Anthony Sowell, 50, is suspected in the murders of 11 women whose bodies have b...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Fiat to flout four new Chrysler models on road to recovery
New York - Italian car giant Fiat will use its new control of Chrysler to launch at least four new models in the US market over the next three years, Fiat's chief executive Sergio Marchionne said Wednesday. Marchionne also said Chrysler was able to p...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ Cars (General) ]

Italian court sentences 23 US citizens in imam kidnapping - Summary
Milan - A Milan court on Wednesday sentenced 23 US citizens in absentia to several-year prison terms for the broad-daylight kidnapping of a Muslim cleric six years earlier. The case concerned the 2003 kidnapping of Abu Omar, who was seized on a stree...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Poland want to cut budget deficit by reducing pension payments
Warsaw - Poland wants to reduce its deficit by reducing payments to private pension funds while keeping that money in the state's social insurance company ZUS, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. Under the proposal, private pension funds would recei...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ Finance (General) ]

 

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