Ian Lieblich, Global Voices Climate change presents a threat unlike any other faced in human history. Released earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC’s) Fifth Assessment Synthesis Report confirmed global warming is “unequivocal” with the “clear human…
A violent murder in a Brazilian beach town shows the danger of rumours on social media.
A US deep-ocean exploration firm has recovered nearly 1,000 ounces of gold, worth $1.3m (£800,000), on a dive to a historic Atlantic Ocean shipwreck, company officials say. The discovery has renewed speculation that gold worth tens of millions of dollars…
Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has cut Russia’s rating to one notch above “junk” status.
Thousands of marathoners have begun running through the streets of Boston, after the city honoured those killed and injured in a bomb attack last year.
When I read in the Los Angeles Times (3/18/14) that scientists had found the first direct evidence of Alan Guth’s theory of early universe inflation, and Albert Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves, I immediately thought of the Hadith about the…
Archaeologists in Bangladesh have unearthed what they believe to be remnants of a thousand-year old Buddhist Vihara (monastery) at Nateswar in Munshiganj’s Tongibarhi. Researchers hope the discovery would help them better understand the student days of famous Buddhist scholar Atish…
China has demarcated an “air-defence identification zone” over an area of the East China Sea, covering islands that are also claimed by Japan.
By Muhammad Jilani The Caliphate system has left its mark on history, but contrary to a basic view of history, the Caliphate did not just leave one mark but several.
By Marjorie Cohn Last weekend, I participated in a panel on the illegality of drones and targeted killing off the battlefield at the conference, “Drones Around the Globe: Proliferation and Resistance,” in Washington DC.
By VOA The U.S. has destroyed six tons of ivory it had seized, crushing the tusks of elephants in an effort to combat the world trade in the contraband.
A legendary 500-year-old portrait by Leonardo da Vinci has turned up in a Swiss bank vault ¬after decades of debate by art ¬experts over whether it existed, New York Post reported. The 24-by-18-inch painting depicts Marquesa Isabella d’Este, a Renaissance…
Muhammad Mojlum Khan’s latest book, The Muslim Heritage of Bengal: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of Great Muslim Scholars, Writers and Reformers of Bangladesh and West Bengal is a treasure of histories of the region, through the contributions of 42…
Reuters Researchers have named a newly discovered, prehistoric lizard “Obamadon gracilis” in honour of the 44th president’s toothy grin.