The UN security council authorized countries to use “all necessary measures that are appropriate in Somalia” to stop anyone using Somalian territory to plan or carry out piracy in the nearby waters traversed each year by thousands of cargo ships sailing between Asia and the Suez Canal. That includes the use of Somalia’s airspace, even though the United States appeased Indonesia, a council member, by removing direct mention of it, U.S. officials said.
Somalia’s Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Jama, whose government asked for the help, said he was “heartened” by the …

An Iraqi journalist was wrestled to the floor by security guards after he called Mr Bush “a dog” and threw his footwear, just missing the president.
With his second shoe, which the president also managed to dodge, Mr Zaidi said: “This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq.”
Mr Zaidi, a correspondent for Cairo-based al-Baghdadiya TV, was then wrestled to the ground by security personnel and hauled away. “If you want the facts, it’s a size 10 shoe that he threw,” Mr Bush joked afterwards.
What a surprise …

ERIC MARGOLIS
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. strategic think tank, RAND Corp, estimated a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan initially would kill two million, wound 100 million and send clouds of radioactive dust around the globe. That was a decade ago. Since then India and Pakistan have quadrupled their nuclear forces, which are now on a hair-trigger alert.
Fears an enraged India would attack Pakistan in revenge for the Mumbai massacre provoked great alarm here in Washington. So, too, the threat Islamabad would withdraw two Pakistani army corps supporting the U.S. …

I have created a group at facebook called 1,000,000 Muslims against Terrorism. It is to show that Muslims are for peace and against Terrorism. I have created this group not to ask for your financial donations. All I would like you to think for a moment “Are you against Terrorism?”. If your answer is yest then I would like to encourage you all the Muslim brothers and sisters to just donate few minutes of your time by visiting facebook and joining the group and asking your friends and family members …

People travelling on a train in Pakistan or is it a human train?

Eid Mubarak to all Muslim brothers and sisters.
May Allah accept the good deeds from me and you.

Eid Al-Fitr is the first day after the end of Holy month of Ramadhan.  According to astronomical calculations, the new moon will be visible in most of the countries on September 30, 2008 so that Eid Al-Fitr will be on October 1.
Muslims who started Ramadhan on September 1st will complete thirty days of Ramadhan.
Eid Mubarak to all the Muslim brothers and sisters.
Please do remember those brothers and sisters who are less fortunate by helping them and taking care of them. After all ’sacrifice’ is one of major lesson learned during the …

Baklava  is a rich, sweet pastry made of layers of phylo dough filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup or honey. It is a popular sweet in former Othamon, Arab world and Iran.
Here is how to make baklava. You can change nuts, or sugar content to suite your taste buds.

Butter chicken or Murgh makhani is dish from the Punjab region.  You might have already had the recipe for butter chicken as it is a well know recipe but  the actual flavour can vary from recipe to recipe and way it is cooked. Butter chicken is usually eaten with naan, roti or steamed rice.
You might have tasted chicken butter in resturaunts but making it by yourself is a rewarding and tasteful experience. So here is a recipe for butter chicken for butter chicken lovers.
Ingredients 
2 to 3 tablespoons of butter
2 tablespoons …