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Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study
Study collected data from 234 countries and territories; predicts fate of five major faiths -- Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam -- as well as folk religions and atheists
If tech futurists are to be believed, by the year 2050, robots will do many of our errands and drive our cars. If a new study on religious trends is to be believed, many of those robot-controlled cars will stop and park...
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Linsey Jade of Bad Girls Club Dead, Fellow BGC Stars Share Condolences
The Bad Girls Club is mourning one of its own.
Oxygen confirmed Friday that Linsey "Jade" Berardi, who appeared on the show's 12th season, has died. A friend who tweeted condolences wrote that Berardi was 23.
"Yesterday, we read rumors that Linsey 'Jade' Berardi from BGC12 had passed away," read a post on the BGC blog on Oxygen's website. "Today, we confirmed with her family that this sad news is true...In lieu of flowers, her family asks any...
Davido set to drop sophomore album, graduates from school
HKN boss, Davido, has finally announced the release date of his much anticipated second studio album. Speaking in Kenya during the weekend, where he performed at the 5th Afrobeatz Festival, Davido said, ‘I’m inviting all of you for my graduation on June 7, then on June 8 I launch my album.
I have worked hard for this degree, day in day out. If I am in China today and I have examinations tomorrow, I better get to school tomorrow or else everything is a bust. I have worked on this degree for six years now.
Before I became famous while I was in school,...
What Jonathan told Buhari on phone
A recording of the telephone call by President Goodluck Jonathan to Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on March 31, congratulating him on his victory at the last Saturday’s presidential election hit the Internet on Thursday. The recording revealed what transpired between the two leaders.
President Jonathan had reportedly called Buhari hours before the official declaration of the presidential election results by the Independent National Electoral Commission that Buhari had won the March 28 presidential poll.
The audio of the conversation credited...
ISIL re-enters refugee camp in Syria
Palestinian officials and activists say fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant battling armed groups inside a refugee camp in the Syrian capital, Damascus, have taken control of most of the camp.
Members of the ISIL stormed the Yarmouk camp on Wednesday but were expelled on Thursday before re-entering the camp on Friday.
Palestinian official Khaled Abdul-Majid said the group was in control of half of the camp.The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian conflict through a network of activists,...
