Too white to adopt: Politically-correct town hall officials tell banker and his wife they can’t give a home to a black or Asian child By Vanessa Allen and Dennis Rice Cradling her daughter on her knee, Francesca Polini is every inch the loving, caring mother. She and her banker husband have good incomes, a spacious home and a close network of family and friends. But their hopes of parenthood were ini­tially dashed when town hall bureaucrats said they were ‘too white’ to adopt a child. Adoption row: Francesca Polini and daughter Gaia, from Mexico. Mrs Polini was told there was … Continue reading Racial Discriminaation against White British people?

By Sahar Habib Ghazi Hajra Lakhani (second from right), Mahmood Marfani (third from right) along with another volunteer and a patient at the Shifa Clinic in Houston, TX. Photo by Sahar Habib Ghazi. HOUSTON: Nestled behind a grand copper-domed mosque in a suburb just outside of Houston, Texas, dozens of patients fill up a waiting room. The buzz in the room is a mix of Spanish, English, Arabic and Urdu. A nurse in scrubs escorts an elderly patient in a burqa out into the waiting room, as a tall, blonde lady in a floral sundress makes her way into the … Continue reading Spirit of volunteerism runs high in Pakistani-Americans

Women with hourglass figures and perfect waists most attractive, study finds A perfect waist is what men consider the most attractive feature in women, say scientists who calculated the ratio for the ideal figure in a female body. By Andrew Hough Published: 9:00AM BST 26 Aug 2010 telegraph.co.uk Jessica Alba as Nancy in Frank Miller’s Sin City. The actress has the best figure, say scientists. Photo: REX FEATURES Marilyn Monroe, pictured in 1957, was also considered having the best waist. Photo: REX FEATURES Victoria’s Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio was also attractive in a man’s eyes. Photo: REX FEATURES Researchers found … Continue reading Humans simply do not mate randomly.

Britain faces new terror wave Britain faces a new wave of home grown terrorists as 800 radicalised Islamist prisoners are released from jail, a leading security expert warns today. Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Published: 12:10AM BST 27 Aug 2010 telegraph.co.uk The report warns that leaders such as Anwar al-Awlaki are encouraging individuals to launch less sophisticated but equally deadly attacks on crowded places Photo: AP Michael Clarke, a former government adviser and the head of the Royal United Services Institute, says he believes the security services could struggle to cope with a new generation of extremists seeking to carry out … Continue reading UK has many home grown terrorists

The limits of tolerance By Irfan Husain dawn.com Demonstrators who support and oppose the proposed Muslim cultural center and mosque Park51 stand with signs in front of the site in New York August 25, 2010. – Photo by Reuters. The ongoing furore over the so-called Ground Zero Mosque shows no sign of abating after weeks of noisy controversy. In a sense, it has become a litmus test of America’s cherished freedom of worship, as well as its tolerance of other people and other faiths. But to put things in perspective, I would like to invite readers to imagine that a … Continue reading Americans need to learn about Muslims from Muslims and not Fox News

Afghanistan calls for sanctions against Pakistan A senior Afghan official told the Post that President Hamid Karzai also had grown increasingly frustrated with US policy towards Pakistan. – AFP Photo WASHINGTON: Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta has urged the United States to sanction Pakistan and refuse visas to Pakistani generals, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. In an interview to the Post, the Afghan official claimed that the central issue in the war against terrorists was their ability to take refuge in Pakistan and not the rampant corruption in Afghanistan. Demanding sanctions against Pakistan, Mr Spanta said “Pakistani … Continue reading Rangin Dadfar Spanta – Its Time The United States Told This Idiot Where To Get Off!

Schoolboy’s bee snap buzzes to first place in wildlife photography competition By Daily Mail Reporter It is an extraordinary picture that has all the hallmarks of a professional wildlife photographer. But, remarkably, this crystal clear shot of a bumble bee hovering beside a salvia flower was taken by a 13-year-old boy in his back garden. Cameron Smith has now won a national photography competition after the judges were impressed by his technical ability in the picture, which he titled ‘Buzzing Along’. It’s a honey: This perfect snap of a bee settling on a flower was 13-year-old Cameron Smith’s prizewinning picture. … Continue reading Cameron Smith nature photos

Kepler probe finds two Saturn-sized planets orbiting a single star 2,000 light years away By Niall Firth Two giant Saturn-sized planets have been spotted passing in front of the same star, Nasa scientists announced today. It is the first time more than one planet has ever been discovered ‘transiting’ a single star. The two planets were discovered by the space telescope Kepler and will give scientists vital information about how planets were formed and how they interact with each other. Kepler scientists have also identified what appears to be a third, much smaller possible planet which is around 1.5 times … Continue reading Kepler probe finds two Saturn-sized planets

Muslim New York cab driver stabbed by ‘baby-faced bigot’ as Ground Zero mosque tensions threaten to spill over By Daniel Bates Fears were growing that a backlash against New York Muslims had begun after a taxi driver was knifed because of his religion. Film student Michael Enright, who had recently been embedded with US Marines, reached through the taxi’s partition and allegedly slashed Ahmed Sharif’s throat, face and arms. Before he did, he asked if the New York cabbie was a Muslim. Victim: New York cab driver Ahmed H Sharif, 43, lies in New York’s Bellevue Hospital after he was … Continue reading Christian Fanatic stabs Muslim New Yorker

HUM HINDUSTANI: Mamata’s metamorphosis —J Sri Raman The new Mamata was born the day — October 20, 2005, to be precise — she protested against the state government’s grant of land in Howrah to the Indonesia-based Salim Group of Companies We know how leaders can evolve from heroes and heroines, if not quite to zeros, certainly to vote-losing villains for their parties in electoral politics. Indira Gandhi, once hailed as the brave liberator of Bangladesh in 1971, lost her halo after the episode of an unpopular emergency and the general election in 1977. Her son Rajiv, riding to power on … Continue reading Mamata’s metamorphosis