...is the indivisibility of secular law and religious practice: The idea of a separate Indian Muslim state, once it had been formulated couldn't have been resisted. The idea was put forward in 1930 by a revered poet, Sir Mohammed Iqbal (1987-1938), in a speech to the All-Indian Muslim League, th...

photos © Mark M. Hancock and The Dallas Morning News Wayne Leavitti of Carrollton celebrates his win as his opponent's ball goes out of bounds during the Wheelchair Exhibition game of the Challenger of Dallas professional tennis tournament at the T Bar M Racquet Club in Dallas on Saturday, Feb. ...

Via the the always great Bishop Thomas Olmsted. Our president's rationale is that science should trump ideology. In other words, that ideology should not have the upper hand in making decisions about who pays for research; science should. We Americans, he says, should trust scientists more than we t...

From low-blowers to jaw-breakers to f**king eye socket crushers, our friends over at National Lampoon have put together the comprehensive list of the 10 all-time dirtiest sons-of-bitches to ever play a professional sport (OK, one dude was just dirty from the sidelines). So head over there now to che...

Volgens onderzoek door een Britse denktank is er geen reden om te geloven dat extremisten jongeren via internet ronselen. Europese en Nederlandse plannen om radicale sites te blokkeren zouden niet alleen ineffectief maar ook zinloos zijn....

Een hacker heeft dinsdag een werkstraf van 240 uur en een voorwaardelijke celstraf tegen zich horen eisen. Hij wordt beschuldigd van online inbraken bij twee gamestudio's en bemachtigde onder meer een vroege versie van Quake Wars....

Hitachi heeft aan de Amerikaanse justitie bekend prijsafspraken te hebben gemaakt over lcd's die aan Dell werden geleverd. Andere lcd-makers, waaronder LG en Sharp, bekenden eerder schuld. Hitachi moet 31 miljoen dollar boete betalen....

Gnomie Luke Scott writes: Hey Chris, I have been planning on getting a Mac Pro for a while, and since my last Mac purchase with the first-gen Intel MacBook, I’ve been keeping an eye on MacRumors’ “when to buy” page and other news to make sure that any future Apple purchases d...

The Canadian Forces are feeling the strain of their ISAF responsibilities and need another operational pause to set things right: OTTAWA — Canada's army, strained by the military mission in Afghanistan, may need a one-year operational pause to regroup and rebuild when troops withdraw in 2011, ...

Well Apple has come through again and released a new set of its desktop computers. Some upgrades are not really that great though. Apple has updated its Mac mini, Mac Pro, and iMac systems. All of these systems have seen upgrades in the graphics, RAM, hard drive, and CPU departments. Watch [...]...