By AFP | Kuala Lumpur | 19 may 2012

A Canadian Muslim gay activist launched her controversial new book on liberal Islam in Muslim-majority Malaysia Saturday despite a government minister’s attempts to shut down the event.

By PressTV | 19 May 2012

A diet high in processed sugar slows the brain, hampering memory and learning while regular consumption of food rich in omega-3s may boost brain function.

By Fawaz Turki | Gulf News | 19 May 2012

To meet deadline, an obligation that political commentators, no less than news reporters, are enjoined by editors against toying with, I have to write this column today -- which just happens to be May 15, the time each year when Palestinians, along with sundry Arabs, commemorate the Nakba, the day in 1948 when Palestine was dismembered and Palestinians were expelled from home and homeland.

By Irishtimes | 19 May 2012

Group of Eight leaders agreed in their initial discussions at Camp David last night that Iran needs to disclose more about its nuclear ambitions and that it was time to focus on a political transition in Syria.

By Isabelle de Pommereau | Christian Science Monitor | Übingen, Germany | 19 May 2012

For years Aysen Yüsra Yilmaz, the daughter of Turkish immigrants who came to Germany as guest workers, looked for a way to ground her religion in the German culture she has adopted as her own.

By Rizwan Khatik | Timesofummah | 19 May 2012

Today, the Islamic Center of America is one of the most recognizable buildings in Metro Detroit, a landmark for Dearborn and a source of great pride for all American Muslims who worship and learn at the largest center of its kind in the United States.

By Ap | Manila | 19 May 2012

Scores of Christian youths in the Philippines chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally on Friday calling for the pop diva's shows here to be canceled despite assurances from authorities that they won't allow nudity and lewd acts.

By PressTV | 19 May 2012

New evidence questions the idea that increasing the blood level of HDL also known as good cholesterol may protect against heart disease.

By OnIslam & News Agencies | St. Louis | 18 May 2012

Facing years of a dilemma to bury their dead according to Islamic teachings, a growing American Muslim minority is trying to find low-cost burial services, funding what would be Missouri's first Muslim funeral home.

Source : Mukhtar Ahmad | Srinagar | 18 May 2012

The death of 400 infants since January this year has sent shock waves through the Himalayan Muslim majority Kashmir Valley already reeling under two decade old separatist violence.

The government admitted to the deaths at the G.B.Pant hospital setting off a social, political and administrative commotion.

Confirming the tally of mortalities in the hospital, the minister for medical education, R.S.Chib ordered a high level enquiry into the causes of the deaths.