By Maryam Hedayat | islam.ru | 22 Feb 2014

What! You don’t have a Facebook account? Hameed was almost shocked to death when he came to know that his friend Ahmad did not have a Facebook account. As if not having a Facebook account is a crime, or his being educated is of no use.

It is not only Hameed’s thinking but almost every one of us believes the same.

By Habib Toumi / 15 Apr 2013 

Around one fifth of Kuwait’s high school students tried drugs, a study has indicated.

According to the survey of 11,380 public and private school students conducted by the Public Authority for Youth and Sport in Kuwait, 19.6 per cent said that they took drugs for pleasure or due to peer pressure.

By AFP / 20 Feb 2013

Children who watch excessive amounts of television are more likely to have criminal convictions and show aggressive personality traits as adults, a New Zealand study has found.

The University of Otago study tracked the viewing habits of about 1,000 children born in the early 1970s from when they were aged five to 15, then followed up when the subjects were 26 years old to assess potential impacts.

By Amy Norton | Reuters Health | 12 Jan 2012

Doctors should automatically offer smokers help with quitting, without waiting for signs that they're ready to kick the habit, researchers say.