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British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published it annual list of QS World University Rankings, with no university from an Arab or Muslim country unsurprisingly making it to the top 100 universities in the world. The QS rankings are one of the three most widely observed and influential international university rankings, alongside the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the …

British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published it annual list of QS World University Rankings, which saw 24 Canadian Universities find a place among the top 700 universities in the world. The QS rankings are one of the three most widely observed and influential international university rankings, alongside the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the Times Higher Education World …

A couple in Rockford, Michigan, who had catapulted to fame when they had their 12th boy, announced that now expecting their 13th child. Jay and Kateri Schwandt had caused a stir when they welcomed their 12th son, Tucker, on August 4th, 2013 at Mercy Health Saint Mary’s Hospital. They are expecting their 13th child on May 9th, 2015. All of …

Natural Cures Remember that scene in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise is on the run from the law, but is unable to avoid detection because everywhere he goes there are constant retina scans feeding his location back to a central database? That’s tomorrow. Today, Google is tracking wherever your smartphone goes, and putting a neat red dot on a map …

The BBC has renewed its “100 Women” program that focuses on representing women in its international news coverage. The one hundred women chosen this year has more scientists, women working in the arts, and a considerable number of Muslim and Arab women in comparison to last year’s list. Additionally, over one-fifth of the women are under the age of 25. …

A local councilor belonging to France’s far-right Front National party seemingly embarrassed his colleagues by announcing that he had converted to Islam and urging others to join him. Twenty-two-year-old Maxence Buttey councilor, in the Parisian suburb of Noisy-le-Grand, reportedly embarrassed members of his anti-immigration party by sending a video in which he praises the “visionary” virtues of the Koran and …

The Australian government has drawn flak from various quarters over its current media campaign against undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, seemingly sending the message that they are not welcome. The government hopes that the rhetoric will discourage immigrants from settling in the country. The latest government-approved poster in the hard hitting campaign, already printed in 17 languages, says “No way. …

The Australian Parliament on Monday abandoned a potentially controversial plan which would force women wearing the niqab or the burqa to sit in separated glassed enclosures in public. They rejected the plan after a decision on October 2nd by Senate President Stephen Parry and Speaker Bronwyn Bishop to make people wearing face covering sit in areas usually reserved for noisy …

Twenty-seven year old Bosnian Muslim immigrant Aida Hadzialic has become Sweden’s new minister of education. Hadzialic was appointed earlier in the month by Stefan Löfven in his new cabinet as the Upper Secondary School and Adult Education Initiative in Sweden. She studied law at the University of Lund before she became the deputy mayor of Halmstad when she was 23 …

Despite a general consensus among the scientific community that current research is not enough to produce a “cure” for Ebola, startups and scientists all over the world are seemingly racing against one another to find marketable medication for the disease. San Diego-based Mapp Biopharmaceuticals has been ramping up production of now well-known ZMAPP, the drug administered to at least two …