It seems that after 39 days in a coma and seven operations, prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected to die by the end of the day, a source at Hadassah hospital said and asked not be identified because he isn't authorised to speak to the media.

Lots of press briefing about Ariel Sharon's condition took place, wonder what will be the next briefing about?!

Algerian national TV has banned Star Academy because the leader of the Movement for a Society of Peace Aboudjerra Soltani believes that Star Academy show is a provocation against society and attacked its moral values, and so its not fit for family viewing.

Algerians are still able to enjoy every minute of the show on satellite through the main channel of LBC TV which can be viewed on Nile Sat and also on Star Academy 24/7 Channel on Arab Sat.

Jyllands Posten Newspaper made available an open letter written by its Editor-in-Chief Carsten Juste, to Fellow Muslim World Wide. The letter was published in response to the anger and boycott of Danish goods in Muslim countries because of the drawings of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) that were published on the newspaper.

Follow one of the following links to read the letter:
Letter in English
Letter in Arabic

Sheikh Jaber Ahmad Jaber Al Sabah died at 5:00 AM today at the age of 79. For Kuwaities, he was the one who taught right from wrong, he brought kuwait up and he supported and loved all his people.

May God bless Shiekh Jaber Ahmad Jaber Al Sabah.

By guest writer Sara

Three explosions have rocked the Jordanian capitol Amman a few hours ago.
The explosions - which appear to have been suicide bombings - happened at three important and vital locations; Radisson SAS Hotel, Hyatt Amman Hotel and Days Inn.
The first fingures of accusation point to Al-Qaida.
The number of casualties so far is big; 57 dead, and hundreds of injured.

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man in a bus in Alabama nearly 50 years ago, and that sparked the civil rights movement.
Rosa parks is a hero and is one of the bravest women in history, and is considered the mother of civil rights in America.
She died yesterday in her home at the age of 92.
Thank you Rosa, may God rest your soul.

After the devastating earthquake that hit Pakistan and India a few days ago, rumors started getting out that the notorious Osama Bin Laden had been killed amidst these horrifying tremors.
An Indian newspaper reported that Bin Laden was in Kashmir just before the earthquake hit, and that among the thousands that have perished, Ben Laden might very well be one of them!
But it isn’t sane to just give in to the news, until a body is recovered.
Do you think that after all this time, Bin Laden simply dropped dead because of an earthquake ?!

A student at the University of Oklahoma committed suicide near a packed football stadium using an explosive attached to his body. The remains were believed to be those of Joel Henry Hinrichs III, according to Salvador Hernandez, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oklahoma.
University President David Boren has said the blast was an apparent suicide.

Thank god he wasn't an Arab...

[Source: MSNBC]

A United Nations health expert warned that a flu pandemic could strike at any time killing between 5 and 150 million people around the world.
Dr David Nabarro, from the WHO, said it would be likely to be caused by a mutant of the virus that is causing bird flu in Asia and called on governments to take action.

In one of the biggest Al-Qaeda related trial in Europe, the Al-Jazeera journalist Tayseer Alouni was sentenced to 7 years in jail and a fine by a court specialized in terror trials in Spain, for allegedly having connections with Al-Qaeda.
Syrian Tayseer Alouni, is one of the most famous Arab journalists because of his interview with the leader of the Al-Qaeda Osama Ben Laden in 2001.

The hurricane to follow Katrina is called Rita, and it is closing in on the shores of Texas and Louisiana threatening the states and the citizens.

Rita has become a category 4 storm, and the winds have reached 220 km/hour. The first rains of Rita are supposed to fall on Friday night and the full storm's fury is expected on Saturday. Unfortunately, its way isn’t totally clear, and it changes its course every few hours!

Millions of people have packed their most important belongings and headed towards the Houston highway to flee from the south and go up to the north. The highways are stacked with bumper to bumper cars and buses.

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Razan Almoghrabi got married to Saudi singer Abbas Ibrahim who is famous for the song 'Nadeit'... and who is also under 20 years old!

When natural disasters happen, people should forget the differences whether political or religious or other sorts of differences, because after all those people who are suffering are ordinary simple people, innocent people and their children.
Hurricane Katrina hit the southern states of Mississippi and Louisiana, and tens of thousands of people are now homeless, sick, hungry and they all have no idea what will happen to them.

The catastrophe is that such tragedy is happening in the world's greatest power, and the aid is so slow that there are people dying, bodies floating in the water and the smell of the decaying bodies of the dead is filling the air.

A freelance American journalist whose Blog exposed corruption in the Iraqi city of Basra has been abducted with his Iraqi translator at gunpoint and shot.
Steven Vincent's body was found shot three times in the chest at the side of a road south of Basra late last night, several hours after he and his female translator were kidnapped as they left a currency exchange shop.

Fortunately, the translator didn’t die, yet she was shot four times and seriously wounded, according to a nurse in a Basra hospital.
There are strong suspicions that Mr. Vincent, who received numerous death threats, was murdered in an attempt to silence him.