London, Nov 12: Just days after Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced tough new measures to name and shame foreign-based extremists barred from UK, Muslim hate preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad has dodged the law to preach his warped views in the UK.
More than 200 Muslims attended a packed public meeting in Tower Hamlets and were told by organiser Anjem Choudary: “We have a special surprise, a special treat for you. Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad will be joining us on a live feed from Lebanon.”
Washington, Nov 12: A new research has found that when mixed together, even low concentrations of pesticides can become a toxic mixture, which can decimate amphibian populations.
According to the research, undertaken by University of Pittsburgh researchers, this is the first illustration of how a large mixture of pesticides can adversely affect the environment.
As part of the research, study author Rick Relyea, an associate professor of biological sciences in Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences, exposed gray tree frog and leopard frog tadpoles to small amounts of the 10 pesticides that are widely used throughout the world.
Washington, Nov 12: Acknowledging fierce pressure from human rights groups to close the controversial high-security Guantanamo Bay prison, US President-elect Barack Obama is learnt to be considering legal formalities on how to carry out the process.
But, according to his aides, he faces a legal minefield in deciding where to house inmates and how to try them.
Any decision to close Guantanamo, which opened in 2002 and has scarred America''s image abroad, will involve working out where to put inmates and require a new kind of legal structure to prosecute them.
Dhabi, Nov. 12, 2008 -- A major UAE English daily today commented on the Israeli move to built a so-called "museum of tolerance" over an ancient Muslim cemetery in West Jerusalem. The paper said the move was another clear manifestation of Tel Aviv's determination to create irreversible facts on the ground that would obliterate all symbols of Muslim presence in Palestine prior to the creation of the Jewish entity.
Washington, Nov 12: Cambridge scientists have made a major breakthrough in rheumatoid arthritis. They have genetically engineered a drug-inducible form of Foxp3 gene, which when activated can prevent the autoimmune reaction characterised by the disease.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a painful, inflammatory type of arthritis that occurs when the body''s immune system attacks itself.
And the new strategy developed by scientists at the Medical Research Council''s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, may open the door for therapy development for rheumatoid arthritis.
Generally, immune cells develop to recognise foreign material – antigens; including bacteria - so that they can activate a response against them.