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ATLANTA —The college degree is becoming the new high school diploma: the new minimum requirement, albeit an expensive one, for getting even the lowest-level job. ¶ Consider the 45-person law firm of Busch, Slipakoff & Schuh here in Atlanta, a place that has seen tremendous growth in the...

LOL! I am on Jihad with myself (jihad bil nafs) to become a good person. :coffee:

Saudi Arabia’s oil exports to the U.S. increased by 17 percent in the first ten months of last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Daily shipments of crude, condensate and natural gas liquids averaged 1.4 million barrels, exceeding the 1.2 million for all of 2011...

A new project will establish Finnish-style schools in Jeddah, where Saudi teachers can develop their pedagogical skills. Subsidiary companies owned by Jyväskylä University and King Abdulaziz University have agreed a contract to bring Finnish-style schooling to the Saudi education system...

Saudi Arabia will spend 554 million riyals ($148 million) this year on water and sanitation projects in the south-western region of Baha, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The kingdom’s official news agency cited Mohammed Al Adheid, director general of the water department in the region, on...

(Reuters) - Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi said during a visit to Germany on Wednesday that he hoped for economic growth of 5.5 percent next year and of between 7 and 8 percent in subsequent years. Mursi, whose one-day visit to Berlin is aimed partly at reassuring Western investors about...

20 February 2013 Is Turkey about to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)? After years of delay on its application to join the European Union (EU) as a full member, Turkey has made overtures to the SCO as an alternative to the EU. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...

A girl, who was proud of being an Indian and used to salute her tricolor flag no matter where she sees it, is skeptical about her identity nowadays. Her faith was private matter some years ago, however now it is considered as her sole identity. Once she was returning from Ghaziabad to Delhi...

The Russian parliament has approved the controversial anti-tobacco law which bans smoking in restaurants, cafés, state institutions, hotels, universities, schools, hospitals, stadia, trains, long-distance ships, as well as near the entrances of metro and railway stations. The law will come into...

PressTV - Iran developing satellite-detecting radar system

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran plans to develop different types of radar systems with satellite detecting capabilities, a senior Iranian official announced on Tuesday. Addressing the second conference on radar technology systems here in Tehran on Tuesday, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad...

Russian satellite will conduct biology experiments in space - UPI.com Russia to launch bioscience satellite - One News Page [US] EU Science News :: Russia to launch bioscience satellite

GDP across 34 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development members fell 0.2% in final quarter of last year All the major economies of the OECD – the US, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and the UK – have already reported falls in output at the end of 2012. Photograph: EPA The...

Are Penguins there, in Antarctica?

Published: 19 February, 2013, 15:25 View of the Kremlin along the banks of the Moscow River Reuters / Anton Golubev Russia, in its new foreign policy concept, shows the country is ready for equal cooperation with its Western partners, but wants security guarantees on the US missile defense...

TABLE-Russia January retail sales up 3.5 pct y/y | Reuters

A Russian satellite that will conduct biological experiments in space and its launch rocket have been delivered to the Baikonur space center, officials said. As part of Russia's Federal Space Program, the Bion-M spacecraft will conduct fundamental and applied research in space biology...

Bear is back!

MOSCOW, February 14 (RIA Novosti) – Nothing can stop or slow down the reintegration of the post-Soviet space, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. “We’ve heard some recent nervous and outspoken remarks regarding integration in the post-Soviet space. Let’s put them down to the...

T-90C tank Over 200 best samples of guns and military equipment are represented at the world’s largest IDEX-2013 arms fair in Abu Dhabi. The Russian T-90C tank took part in the ceremonial parade on the occasion of opening the fair. Experts also noticed the Russian Terminator, a tank support...