London has consolidated its position as the leading western centre for Islamic finance, with more than $10bn of Islamic bonds listed on the London Stock Exchange, second only to Dubai, a report from International Financial Services London said yesterday.
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February 10th, 2009
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February 10th, 2009
The UK remains one of the world's top centres for Islamic finance.
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February 10th, 2009
Worried that Britain is going bankrupt? Cheer up ? we?re about to be bought up by the Islamic world.
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February 10th, 2009
E. became the oldest person in Israel and one of the few in the world of her age to have had an umbilical cord blood transplant.
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February 10th, 2009
A Sheffield head teacher has resigned after parents complained about her plans to scrap separate assemblies for Muslim pupils.
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February 10th, 2009
After a lengthy trial period the 100th Coventry Muslim Scout Group was firmly established in the heart of the city on Sunday.
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February 10th, 2009
A Saudi Arabian official says mosques can be the only places of worship in his country, rejecting pressure to change heavy restrictions on religions besides Islam.
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February 10th, 2009
Up to a third of GPs are threatening to quit their practices if they opt to provide early medical abortion under Department of Health plans, Christian doctors are warning.
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February 10th, 2009
One in three GPs in England and Wales would refuse to work in surgeries or clinics that offered abortions, a new poll has shown.
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February 10th, 2009
A group of British doctors are preparing for human clinical trials that will take a person's bone marrow stem cells, transform them into heart stem cells and inject them into the heart, where they can go to work repairing damage.