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President Barack Obama was both a happy man and an angry man this week. He was happy because he managed to get his ambitious healthcare reforms bill passed by the House of Representative by a narrow margin. He was angry because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly defied the US request to stop new settlement building activities in the occupied …

They said Saudi people in general opposed the idea when Labor Minister Ghazi Al-Gosaibi issued a decision two years ago allowing Saudi women to work as house managers and servants. Speaking to Islamonline. net, Suhaila Zainul Abideen, a member of the National Society for Human Rights, expressed her surprise at Al-Laheedan’s fatwa or religious edict. She strongly opposed the idea …

The function to honour 501 Tamil-Muslim students who have passed the ‘Grade V’ Scholarship Examination in Tamil Medium from the Ampara, Batticaloa and Polannaruwa districts is held today at the Hisbullah Cultural Centre in Kattankudy. 185 students from the Ampara district, 307 students from the Batticaloa district and 09 students from the Polonnaruwa district will be honoured at this function …

Jewish couple lose court battle to help Bedouin friends The Zakai and Tarabin families should be a picture of happy coexistence across the ethnic divide, a model for others to emulate in Israel. But Natalie and Weisman Zakai say the past three years — since the Jewish couple offered to rent their home to Bedouin friends, Ahmed and Khalas Tarabin — …

The expulsion of an Israeli ‘diplomat’ from Britain over the terrorist murder of a Palestinian leader in Dubai has provoked outrage in the Israeli Knesset, comparing the British to “dogs”. “I think [the] British are behaving hypocritically and I don’t want to offend dogs on this issue, since some dogs are utterly loyal,” said Aryeh Eldad, National Religious Party lawmaker …