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Personal branding through social media may help you build your professional network, but there will never be a replacement for a charismatic personality. Napoleon Hill, author of “Think and Grow Rich”–one of the top-selling books of all time–wrote about the habits of the most likable people in his essay “Develop A Pleasing Personality,” published in the forthcoming collection “The Science …

Sadiyo Omar had no idea where her son had gone until the sobbing 20-year-old phoned her from Turkey on Saturday. “Why, why are you there?” she asked. Her son, Abdi Mohamed Nur, a graduate of Southwest High School in Minneapolis, gave no explanation. When she begged him to come home, she said, he cried some more. Kyle Loven, spokesman for the …

A porn addict who murdered his mother-in-law in a horrific sex attack that shocked an Old Bailey judge is facing life in jail. Mohammud Yusuf, 32, inflicted ‘the most agonising death imaginable’ on Amoe Stevens, 64, while his two young sons sat in the next room listening to their grandmother’s cries. Yusuf – who had an obsession with violent pornography …

Ebado was my neighbour for long period of time; since I was born I knew her family. The family was sympathetically poor and constantly struggling to live. Their shelter was Somali traditional house, which is being built by sticks, and animal skin. It was huge, its door was facing east, and the straight rays from the sun directly go into …

As almost any Somali living in the U.S. will tell you, sending money to relatives and friends back home is just something that we do. I’ve grown up seeing my grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles do it for years — it’s a fact of life. It’s no surprise that every year, Somali migrants send approximately $1.3 billion to Somalia — …

I used to think I had my stuff together. Then I got married. Marriage is great—but it rocked everything I knew. I quickly realized my basic goal in life, prior to getting married, was to simply remain undisturbed. This “disruption” came suddenly and was disguised as a 5-foot-nothing Swedish-Filipino woman. When I decided I’d rather not live without her, I …

We prayed over my dear mother today and buried her. Tonight will be the first night in her grave. Subhan’Allah, I always wondered about this day, which will come for us all. My sister and I were talking this morning about how serene and peaceful we feel despite the chaos and cries of people around us. Perhaps it’s because we …