The greenback bought 104.28 yen in morning Tokyo trade, from 104.37 yen in New York Thursday, and after a Japanese government report described Asia?s number two economy as "recovering" for the first time in six years.

The Airbus A380 (left) is currently the biggest airliner in the world

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The Brits are back

That, of course, was the pinnacle of Muslim civilisation. Those were the days when scholars from all around the world, irrespective of their religion or creed, conglomerated in Bait al Hikamat, an institute meant to create knowledge. Baghdad was then the knowledge centre and the beacon of progress.