New twist in this age old debate:

'Eggless' chick laid by hen in Sri Lanka

May Allah have mercy upon our scholars. Shaikh Bakri Tarabishi (RA) from Damascus has passed away in Dubai and the Jazanazah was led by Shaikh Habeeb Ali Jifri.

He was one of the most pious of the Ulama that I have had the honour of meeting and one of the greatest teachers of the Quran from the old generation. In the past few years we have lost great Qurra such as Shaikh al-Muqri Muhuddin Kurdi (RA) and Shaikh Mohammed Sukkar (RA). Shaikh (RA) was constantly dedicating his time to his students until he became bed-ridden and very ill around 2010. I last met Shaikh in 2010 in Muhajireen, Damascus and he was very ill and kindly apologized for not being able to have guests.

Bradford's cousin marriage boom

The tradition of marrying a cousin is becoming more entrenched among British-born Pakistanis living in Bradford than it was a generation ago, writes Winifred Robinson.

Read more: Bradford's cousin marriage boom

Interesting to note that this is INCREASING as opposed to the to-me-atleast expected decline over time.

Children grow up addicted to online porn sites: Third of 10-year-olds have seen explicit images

A 'guinea p**’ generation of children is growing up addicted to hardcore internet pornography, MPs were warned last night.

Four out of five 16-year-old boys and girls regularly access porn online while one in three ten-year-olds has seen explicit material, a disturbing cross-party report reveals.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2131799/Children-grow-addicted-o...

MPs call for automatic block on all online porn to stop the surge in children watching adult material

Woman faces death penalty for witchcraft after 'casting spell on 13-year-old shopper'

Daughter started acting abnormally, claims father

Saudi Arabia beheads sorcerers, says lawyer

Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, is an absolute monarchy that has no written criminal code and where court rulings are based on judges' interpretation of Islamic Sharia law.

Sri Lankan woman has been arrested on suspicion of casting a spell on a 13-year-old girl on a shopping trip in Saudi Arabia.
She may face the death penalty as the Middle Eastern country is known to behead convicted sorcerers.
Police spokesman Mesfir al-Juayed confirmed yesterday that details of the woman's arrest published in local media were correct

Morning after pill can be ordered online and delivered to an address in London within two hours for £20

Women will soon be able to have the morning-after pill delivered by courier to their office.

A ‘pill-by-bike’ emergency contraception service is being launched in London to save women from visiting their GP or waiting for the post to arrive.

This is the first time the morning-after pill will be delivered to the door like a business contract, with the service prompted by customer demand

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2130556/Women-chance-sex-encou...

The mother who cannot laugh or love: Rare disorder means she collapses every time she expresses strong emotion

During an attack Kelly can see and hear but her body is temporarily paralysed

Attacks can last anything from a few seconds to an hour

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2131497/Cataplexy-Rare-disorde...

Es selaam,

Since my wife joined a famous online social network few months ago she has re-connected with nearly 200 family members all around the globe.
Her family can be traced back 36 generations but far from all branches of the family tree have been mapped. Especially not the female side of the extended family. The later generations got scattered across borders, a process that has intensified the past decades as life under the post colonial regimes pushed people out of their ancestral regions to find refuge and better opportunities around the globe.

Salam All, would be very grateful if you could take a few minutes filling this short, sharp succinct survey on Muslim experiences in the UK Hotel sector.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N5M63MQ

Parents of children in England who persistently truant should have their child benefit cut, according to a key government adviser on school behaviour.

Behaviour tsar Charlie Taylor says unpaid truancy fines should be recovered directly from child-benefit payments in a crackdown on absenteeism.

The latest figures show 400,000 children were persistently absent from England's schools in the past year and missed about one month of school each.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17705238