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…
The road of excess, William Blake believed, leads to the palace of wisdom. Or possibly to a plate of CBD-infused doughnuts with a chocolate dipping sauce, then…
Saudi Ambassador to the United Kingdom Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz and a group of Saudi citizens and students on scholarships in Britain…
Big queues formed in Indian-administered Kashmir's main city on Saturday outside cash machines and food stores as authorities eased a crippling curfew to let…
The Kiswa, or ornate protective covering draped over the holy Kaaba, was replaced with a new one on Friday with the beginning of the Hajj pilgrimage. Some…
The route leading from Jeddah to Makkah, one of the most vital roads in Saudi Arabia, has been named after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Prime…
Toyota Motor Corp. has designs on making robot helpers for your home, and has enlisted a Japanese startup that specializes in artificial intelligence to kick…
For decades the Equestrian and Racing Club has given upper-crust Sudanese the chance to learn horse riding and watch horse racing in a shady compound set apart…
If you're not a big drinker, you may not give much thought to the health of your liver. But there might be reason to be concerned. An estimated 64 million…
Actor Richard Gere visited on Friday rescued migrants on board a humanitarian ship that has been stuck in the Mediterranean Sea for over a week. The…
The sight of a cookie had never made me grimace until this one showed up in my email inbox. DoubleTree by Hilton, the hotel chain, was announcing that it…
I wonder how often he thought back on it: the outrage, the reproaches, the shame, the folly. In 1865, two years after they rejected his “Déjeuner sur l’herbe,”…
Ali usually marks the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha with his family in the Gaza Strip by sacrificing a sheep, a customary annual ritual for those who can spare…
The Daily Star, Lebanon's only English-language newspaper, protested on Thursday the country's deteriorating economic and political conditions by refraining…
An American Tech developer had a successful experiment in baking a loaf of bread using yeast microbes that had been asleep for thousands of years buried deep…
Eid Al Salwaawi, 69, paints murals of the rituals of the Hajj pilgrimage on the walls of a house in Cairo’s Sayeda Zainab neighborhood. Sometimes he…
Medi Bastoni, an Indonesian man who has embarked on the arduous task of walking backwards from his hometown to the capital Jakarta, a distance of over 700 km…
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex spent months, and millions of dollars renovating Frogmore Cottage before they finally moved in earlier this year, but the couple…
While people in wealthy countries debate whether it is ethical to travel by plane or burn coal, there is less talk about farming, forestry and other land use,…
Over 4000 patients in the United States are waiting for a heart transplant, while millions of others worldwide need hearts but are ineligible for the waitlist…
A new locally-developed app helps Palestinian drivers in the occupied West Bank negotiate traffic at Israeli military checkpoints and uncover routes to towns…
A team of Portuguese researchers has created smart sportswear made of cotton that emits a lemony citronella aroma upon contact with sweat. In recent years,…
Two pilots have been prevented from flying a United Airlines plane after allegedly failing breath tests at Glasgow Airport. The men were stopped before…
As part of its efforts to encourage young Egyptians, develop their capacities and spread heritage and cultural awareness, the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic…
Nearly a quarter of the world's population lives in 17 countries facing extremely high water stress, close to "day zero" conditions when the taps run dry,…