Competing at the Olympics may almost be taken for granted by athletes in some countries, but for others they simply have not had the chance to get there before.That is now changing in Qatar, which will send female athletes to the London Games for the very first time.Al Jazeera's Rhodri Davies met one of them, Nada Arakji, a member of the Gulf state's national swimming team. Continue reading →
Two six year old friends who love the song "somebody that I used to know" by GOTYE make a music video...The two children in the video are my girlfriend's son and his friend. A couple of months ago, they saw the GOYTE music video for SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW and fell in love with it. When they were riding in the car together, they would request it constantly and loved singing it. We joked about making a video for the song and the children loved the idea. One day, I set up a go pro camera behind my seat and when they got in the car, they saw the camera and got really excited. We filmed it over a few car rides and ... Continue reading →
NEW YORK (AP) -- A prominent retired psychiatrist is apologizing to the gay community for a decade-old study that concluded some gay people can go straight through what's called reparative therapy. Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, formerly of Columbia University, now says he no longer believes his work showed that. For the study, Spitzer had interviewed 200 people who'd claimed some degree of change. The "fatal flaw" is that there is no way to judge the credibility of their accounts, Spitzer says in a letter he submitted last month to a journal that published his work in 2003. The work made headlines when he presented it at a 2001 meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. One reason for the attention was that Spitzer had played a ... Continue reading →
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CAIRO (AP) -- Two election front-runners, a former foreign minister and a moderate Islamist, squared off Thursday in the Arab world's first ever presidential debate, trading barbs over the role of religion and how to bring democratic reform to Egypt. Egyptians crowded around television sets in outdoor cafes for the four-hour debate, aired on several independent TV channels - a startling new experiment for Egypt after nearly 30 years of authoritarian rule under President Hosni Mubarak, ousted last year after a wave of protests. For most of Mubarak's rule, he was re-elected in referendums in which he was the only candidate. The last presidential election, in 2005, was the first to allow multiple candidates, but Mubarak was considered a certain winner and campaigning was weak ... Continue reading →
