Elon Musk's SpaceX was poised Friday to carry out its latest test of the world's biggest and most powerful rocket, the Starship, with plans for a…
India's capital Delhi overtook Lahore in Pakistan to become the world's most polluted city on Friday, with air quality reaching hazardous levels and visibility…
Domestic cats meow differently depending on whether their human caretakers are present in the room or not, scientists confirm in a new study published by The…
For more than a century, the Tabbara family has been serving up falafel to Beirut’s residents. Their business, which predates Lebanon’s founding, has…
Biogen Inc said on Wednesday it submitted an application seeking US approval of its closely-watched Alzheimer’s drug, as the company aims to be the first to…
Visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun won't be eating out at his favorite chicken soup restaurant in Seoul this week as he observes coronavirus…
Conservationists have captured the first images of a group of rare Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria's Mbe mountains, proof that the…
The Royal Commission of AlUla announced the completion of the last phase of the restoration works for al-Zawiya and Hamad bin Younes mosques in the Old City. …
As the sun sets in the Japanese town of Tatsuno, thousands of fireflies begin glowing, producing a spectacle that usually draws crowds of delighted visitors. …
By the end of May, the Palestinian Authority appeared to have quashed a coronavirus outbreak in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with only around 400 confirmed…
Astronomers used a telescope based in Chile to make this dramatic discovery. Peaking through a hole in the dust, the faint red glow is only just visible from…
Every few years, a bloom of microscopic organisms called dinoflagellates transform coasts around the world by endowing breaking waves with an eerie blue glow…
The Rodin museum in Paris reopened on Tuesday and is hoping the sale of limited-edition cast bronzes of work by the 19th-century sculptor will help make up…
A proposal to bring back the statue of a French diplomat behind the idea to build the Suez Canal has stirred controversy in Egypt, with many saying it would be…
Scientists have completed a large-scale study that led them to develop a new test to measure a person's "nutritional fingerprint" and help predict the diseases…
With road traffic, global trade and demand for flights declining drastically during the COVID-19 pandemic, French designer Nicolas Abdelkader proposed a bold…
On a riverbank in Syria's Hama, Mohammed Sultan tinkers away on a giant water wheel, one of a dwindling number of artisans able to restore the city's ancient…
The home of Fiorentina winger Franck Ribery was burglarized while he was playing an away match in the Italian league. Ribery played Sunday in a 2-1 victory…
When most Chilean nurses finish their long shifts caring for the country’s many COVID-19 patients, there is little else on their minds but seeing their…
One county in Utah beat back a spike of pandemic virus infections in the spring, and another saw its rate jump. Both trends showed up in their sewage. Yes,…
A dog in Tennessee became a hero on the Fourth of July by alerting her owner to a house fire next door. Roux, a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois, woke her owner…
The Mona Lisa is back in business. Paris' Louvre Museum, which houses the world's most famous portrait, reopened Monday after a four-month coronavirus…
The Dalai Lama made a bid for music chart stardom on Monday, his 85th birthday, with the release of an album of mantras and teachings. "Inner World" kicks…
A philharmonic orchestra performed to spectator-free Roman ruins in east Lebanon Sunday, after a top summer festival downsized to a single concert in a year of…
Nine musicians from the Syrian diaspora in Europe are playing Sunday in the 24th friendship concert conducted by Riccardo Muti, this year at the Paestum…
Famed Egyptian actor Ragaa al-Geddawy died on Sunday after contracting the COVID-19 disease, the actors union said. She was 81. "Ragaa al-Geddawy passed…
The coronavirus put a damper on this year’s Fourth of July celebrations in New York, but some things stayed the same. Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo repeated as…
An Indian man said he paid about $4,000 for a bespoke gold face mask to protect him from the coronavirus raging in the country. The precious metal covering…