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Vegetative state patients can respond to questions

published by You on 4 February, 2010 - 06:03

Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts.

The research, carried out at in the UK and in Belgium, involved a new brain scanning method.

Awareness was detected in three other patients previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.

The study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that scans can detect signs of awareness in patients thought to be closed off from the world.

Patients in a vegetative state are awake, not in a coma, but have no awareness because of severe brain damage.

Read more @ BBC News

Aafia Siddiqui found guilty of attempt to murder interrogating soldiers

published by You on 4 February, 2010 - 01:19

A US court has found a Pakistani female scientist guilty of attempting to murder US agents while she was detained for questioning in Afghanistan.

The prosecution said Aafia Siddiqui, a US-trained neuroscientist, picked up an army rifle and shot at the US agents.

None of the Americans was injured but Siddiqui, 37, was shot.

She was arrested by Afghan police in July 2008 on suspicion of carrying chemicals and notes referring to "mass-casualty attacks" in New York.

She has been accused of having links to the al-Qaeda leadership and rights groups say she has spent five years in secret US jails.

Read more @ BBC News

Unregistered marriages causing trouble.

published by You on 3 February, 2010 - 19:32

Wedding trouble as UK Muslim marriages not recognised

A growing number of young Muslims in the UK are entering marriages that are not legally recognised, BBC Asian Network has found. This is because couples are having an Islamic wedding without the civil ceremony needed for the marriage to be recognised under British law.

Shaheeda Khan married her fiance in a traditional Islamic religious ceremony, the nikah, at her home in Birmingham.

After the wedding the couple moved to London where they started to build a life and home together but, 13 months into the marriage, Shaheeda realised that her nikah was not legally valid.

YOUTH EVENT: Are You Passionate about YOUR Community?

published by Muslim Youth Skills on 1 February, 2010 - 10:24

Are you aged 16-24 and want to discuss YOUR views and help make a change in YOUR Local community, HARROW?

Would you like to have a ‘Safe Space’ to discuss issues affecting you?

What about the recent anti-Mosque protests in Harrow? Have you got anything to say?

Join us and take part in a series of workshops on:
Date: Tuesday 16th February 2010
Time: 11am-3pm
Venue: Harrow Council, Civic Centre, Station Road, Harrow, HA1 2XP

For further details, please contact:
Tafazal Mohammad - tafazal@me.com or call/text: 07861 698 132
Or
Shaban - shaban.siddik@harrow.gov.uk

PLACES ARE LIMITED SO PLEASE BOOK EARLY!

Event is in partnership with Harrow Council

Suicide

published by You on 1 February, 2010 - 05:35

I was just reading this article about teen suicides in India (well, Mumbai, where they are averaging one teen a day, or three people in total per day... with 100,000 people committing suicide in india per annum) and its quite... alarming? unnerving? high? surprising? take your pick.

Another quote from the article:

World Health Organisation Assistant Director-General Catherine Le Gals-Camus points out more people die from suicide around the world than from all homicides and wars combined.

Pakistani Taliban chief Mehsud buried - state TV

published by You on 31 January, 2010 - 18:05

There are fresh claims that the Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud is dead, after state TV reported that he had been buried.

But within hours of the report the Taliban again denied Mehsud had been killed and challenged reporters to provide proof of it.

Pakistan's army said it could not confirm the death and said its agents were seeking clarification.

Reports of Mehsud's death first began after a drone strike on 14 January.

US drones have mounted numerous missile strikes in recent years, and killed the Taliban's former leader, Baitullah Mehsud, last August.

North and South Waziristan - where the Mehsud tribe comes from - are major sanctuaries for militants.

There's a fire.

published by RI_RS on 31 January, 2010 - 00:00

You can take one thing, what'll it be?

No smart arse answers : e.g "nothing, we have insurance" or "phone, so i can call the ambulance quick so we can save all our things" etc.

Basically, EVERYTHING but the one thing you take will be cremated by the house fire.

And the people/pets in the house can all leave so you needn't worry about that.

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