Basketball: NBA finals feature record nine non-US players (Channel NewsAsia)
SAN ANTONIO, United States : A record nine international players will take part in the best-of-seven National Basketball Association Finals, which will be televised to 205 nations in 46 languages starting here Thursday....more...Mohammed will likely to top British boys` names list by year-end (Antara News)
Mohammed will likely become the most popular name for baby boys in Britain by the end of the year, The Times newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing government data....more... The Almanac -- weekly (Moldova.org)
Today is Monday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2007 with 203 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include English playwright/poet Ben Jonson in 1572; German composer Richard Strauss in 1864; Montana's Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to ......more... The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily (Arab News)
MADINAH, 1 June 2007 ? We?ve all heard the phrase ?an eye for an eye,? but have you ever heard of ?a tooth for a tooth?? A woman in Madinah, who fell victim to dental malpractice that caused her to...more... AP News in Brief (8:35 a.m.) (Las Cruces Sun-News)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? NATO troops on Thursday secured the wreckage of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter apparently shot down by Taliban militants, an attack that killed everyone on board ? five U.S. soldiers, a Canadian and a Briton, officials said....more... Best bets: May 31 - June 6 (Pioneer Press)
EVENT: VAUDEVILLIAN STAGES Saturday: Giving a nod to its past, the Fitzgerald Theater hosts "Vaudevillian Stages," an eclectic lineup of acts that...more... AP News in Brief (9 a.m.) (Las Cruces Sun-News)
BAGHDAD (AP) ? Hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. troops cordoned off sections of Baghdad's Sadr City slum early Wednesday and conducted a series of raids in an apparent effort to find five British citizens abducted from a nearby government building the day before, local residents and police said....more... The Faith Column (The New Statesman)
In Islam identity is fluid and can be acquired simply by learning the local language. In fact Islam requires of the Muslims that they learn the local language....more... DIRECTV Delivers Even More Greek Programming to Customers Nationwide (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.----DIRECTV is taking its international programming platform, WorldDirect, to the next level with the launch of its second Greek-language channel, A SAT - the satellite version of the popular Greek channel Alpha TV....more... |