A YOUNG seeker named Cat Stevens ''picked up a couple of very important strands of the mysterious truth'' during his last tour of Australia in 1974. Within two years they would lead him to a new faith and a new name – Yusuf Islam – and out of the music business for three decades. In a luxury hotel overlooking the …

  2010.06.10 Furkan Dogan, born in New York in 1991, was a final grade student in Kayseri Hisarciklioglu High School. He joined the flotilla from Kayseri, a prominent city in inner Anatolia.  However, in the end of his journey aiming to break the inhumane blockade and deliver much needed humanitarian aid to Gaza, he was greeted with bullets. 4 bullets …

  BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – European Union foreign ministers will call on Israel next week to lift a three-year-old blockade of Gaza which they describe as "unacceptable and counterproductive" – including to Israel's security. In a draft statement prepared for a meeting on Monday, the foreign ministers will condemn the use of violence during Israel's operation to stop a flotilla of …

ABU DHABI: The market for Islamic financial products is poised to surpass $1 trillion in value this year as demand surges globally, a senior Moody's official said on Monday. With a growth rate of 20 percent per year, the market for products such Islamic bonds and savings products was worth around $950 billion at the end of 2009, said Anouar …

  Oslo – Norwegian judges and other court officials are to be allowed to wear religious dress including the Muslim headscarf or hijab during court sessions, the board of the National Courts Administration said Monday. However, if a party in a case has objections to the use of such attire – which also includes the Sami national costume – the …

  The sun's temper ebbs and flows on what scientists had thought was a pretty predictable cycle, but lately our closest star has been acting up.   Typically, a few stormy years would knock out a satellite or two and maybe trip a power grid on Earth. Then a few years of quiet, and then back to the bad behavior. …