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Wednesday, Dec 2, 2009 06:03 PST That little loop seems to have replaced real feminism, which is why women's health priorities are so screwed up Has feminism been replaced by the pink-ribbon breast cancer cult? When the House of Representatives...

Cloud cover over most parts of Muscat last evening failed to cause any rain in the city, the Meteorological department said. The Met department has, however, predicted rains in the Sultanate today. The Met department has forecast that residents in...

The Chronicle (Centralia) • Published November 30, 2009 Gene Huguenin is a Christian and Marine Corps veteran. He is also the owner of a Centralia meat processing plant that butchers goats, sheep and beef according to strict Islamic religious standards...

Dr. Mahmoud al-Srouji peers at a laptop computer screen showing technicolor images of a group of Indian pilgrims filing by, just off a flight from Mumbai in Jeddah airport's massive hajj terminal. "They don't know that we are already checking...

Effat University has opened its new technology-enhanced laboratory equipped with computers that will enable students to communicate with their teachers in the university as well as research centers and major libraries around the world. The new classroom contains 21 high...

Climate change could be cancelled out in a staggeringly ambitious plan to plant the Sahara desert and Australian outback with trees One day, this could all be trees … a recent scientific paper claims that turning deserts into forests is...

The company has been touting a fingerprinting system for rights holders that means YouTube can identify their material even when it has been altered and made part of user-generated content such as wedding videos or satirical clips. First developed two...

No further mobile operators will be given licenses at present, telecommunications minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju told parliament on Wednesday. "There are currently six operators serving the country. No new operators will get licenses," the minister told a question-answer session. "However...

Power utility Saudi Electricity said it would borrow from banks and use Islamic bonds to help finance a 6.88bn riyals ($1.84bn) contract to expand a power plant. The Gulf's largest utility by market value signed the agreement awarding South Korean...