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humiliation resulting from the Islamic world falling behind the Western world - this discrepancy made especially visible due to recent globalisation.

Top Muslim organizations in the United States were swift to condemn the attacks on 9/11 and called "upon Muslim Americans to come forward with their skills and resources to help alleviate the sufferings of the affected people and their families".

The second-biggest operation of the U.S. Global War on Terrorism outside of the United States, and the largest directly connected to terrorism, was the overthrow of the Taliban rule of Afghanistan by a U.S.-led coalition.

As the level of violence in video games has increased, so has concern for the effects on those who play - especially those who play a lot. Many are quick to point out that most school shootings in recent years have been carried out by avid gamers, and their games of choice were always dark and violent.

But it begs the question: Which comes first? Can aggressive and violent behavior be attributed to violence in video games? Or do those who play already have violent tendencies which draw them to violent games? It's a type of "chicken or the egg" debate that has strong advocates on both sides.

The more lifelike they've become, the more interest there has been in the correlation between violent games and violent behavior.

The bill targets pro-anorexia websites

The French National Assembly has passed a groundbreaking bill which seeks to criminalise the promotion in the media of extreme thinness.

nd publications that encourage girls and young women to starve themselves.

People who are "not useful" could be exterminated simply for that reason

n the UK, the parents of a teenage murder victim have blamed the crime on the Rockstar game Manhunt.

The parents of Stefan Pakeerah, 14, said their son was lured to a park by a 17-year-old player of the game, who stabbed and beat their son to death with a knife and claw hammer.

"When one looks at what Warren did to Stephan and looks at the brutality and viciousness of the game, one can see links,"

Anorexia nervosa, commonly referred to simply as anorexia, is one type of eating disorder.

A person with anorexia often initially begins dieting to lose weight.

The individual continues the endless cycle of restrictive eating, often accompanied by other behaviors such as excessive

QUEENSLAND primary schools are enlisting body image experts to help students with suspected anorexia as the average age of eating disorder victims continues to get younger.

The number of children aged 13 years and under diagnosed with an eating disorder by community mental health services in Queensland has more than quadrupled over the past five years.

Experts say nearly one-third of all child and youth mental health beds in the state's public hospitals are now taken up by anorexia nervosa patients.

The testing of cosmetics on animals in the UK has finally ended.

The end to the tests comes after months of negotiations to persuade companies to stop using animals - mainly guinea pigs, rats and mice - in the last remaining tests.

No fresh licences will be issued, meaning an effective ban, a Home Office spokesman said.

when action is taken upon the frustration and stress, and the action is taken out in anger and aggression, the results may be very harmful to both the aggressor and the person being aggressed against, mentally, emotionally, and even physically.

, violent video games were considered to be more harmful in increasing aggression than violent movies or television shows due to their interactive and engrossing nature.

Although there have been studies that have found video game violence to have little negative effects on their players,

A big part of media audience consists of teenagers, who are particularly vulnerable

This is because the mentality of young people is in the process of formation.

The impact of media on the morality of the younger generation can affect the future of our society negatively.

Bin Laden and fellow al-Qaeda leaders are believed to be hiding near the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

Beliefs and ideology

"Allah knows it did not cross our minds to attack the towers but after the situation became unbearable and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, I thought about it. And the events that affected me directly were that of 1982 and the events that followed – when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the U.S. Sixth Fleet. As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way (and) to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women." – Osama bin Laden, 2004[

A type of scan that illuminates brain activity showed that at the end of the three months, the girls’ brains were working less hard to complete the game’s challenges. What’s more, parts of the cortex, the outer layer of their brains responsible for high-level functions, actually got thicker. Several of these regions are associated with visual spatial abilities, planning, and integration of sensory data.

Other researchers are hoping to use video games to encourage prosocial behaviors - actions designed to help others.

Generalizability to non-game situations is the big question surrounding other emerging games, particularly software that is being marketed explicitly as a way to keep neurons spry as we age. The jury is still out on whether practicing with these games helps people outside of the context of the game. In one promising 2008 study, however, senior citizens who started playing Rise of Nations, a strategic video game devoted to acquiring territory and nation building, improved on a wide range of cognitive abilities, performing better on subsequent tests of memory, reasoning, and multitasking. The tests were administered after eight weeks of training on the game. No follow-up testing was done to assess whether the gains would last.