Lebanese trying to legalize civil marriage despite religious opposition

"Every Muslim official, whether a deputy or a minister, who supports the legalization of civil marriage, even if it is optional, is an apostate and outside the Islamic religion,” Qabbani said in a religious edict, or fatwa.

Using physics to vent about life in the closed system of Amman.

It seems fairly clear that the Egyptian military is not policing the curfew in those cities, so Morsi’s hopes of handing the problem off to them has not worked.

If you’ve got an iPhone 5 and are using Zain then you’re lucky because they just activated the service for your phones.

In addition to their glorious music, Dire Straits proved to be prescient in their choice of song titles. Here’s a breakdown of how their song titles match the different stages of the Arab Spring.