News around the Muslim World on Wednesday 17 December 2014

Sixty nine percent of white evangelicals believe the CIA treatment was justified, compared to just 20% who said it was not. 

Turn the other cheek but not if you its a Muslim you want to torture.

Source : Religion Dispatches

The scientists also reported that for the first time, they had confirmed the presence of carbon-based organic molecules in a rock sample. The so-called organics are not direct signs of life, past or present, but they lend weight to the possibility that Mars had the ingredients required for life, and may even still have them.

H G Wells was right - there is life on Mars!

Source : New York Times

Cows and their calves communicate using calls that are individualised in a similar way to human names, scientists have discovered.Researchers found it was possible to identify particular cows and calves from the exclusive sounds they made.

Animals do talk to each other.

Source : The Daily Telegraph

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