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…
A century ago, the American surgeon William Coley injected streptococcal organisms that cause cellulitis, a skin inflammation, into cancer patients. Coley…
Lebanese fisherman Hassan Younes has been diving the same waters off his coastal hometown for three decades but has never seen anything like this year as…
Bahrain has recorded temperatures that make the month of June the hottest ever experienced in the Arab Gulf country in more than a century. Summers in the…
Egypt has asked international police agency Interpol to track down a 3,000-year-old Tutankhamun artifact that was sold in London for $6 million despite fierce…
A Lebanese lottery winner in Australia has lost all his fortune after a series of bad investments, Britain’s The Daily Mirror newspaper reported. Sherif…
The book owner, who bought it for five sterling pounds at a second hand book store, expects it to fetch as much as £20,000 at auction. She said the book is all…
A team of researchers from the Universities of Pennsylvania in the US and Almería in Spain, and AccuWeather, Inc. has developed a new computer model that can…
Finishing nearly 5,000 meters above sea level after hundreds of kilometers winding past blackened glaciers and snow-capped peaks: a new Pakistani race presents…
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee voted Saturday to add Bahrain's Dilmun Burial Mounds to its World Heritage List, praising the tombs for their "globally…
Egypt's antiquities ministry is expected to hold a special meeting on Monday to discuss its next steps after a 3,000-year-old quartzite head of Egyptian "Boy…
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee named on Friday Iraq’s historic city of Babylon a World Heritage Site. Iraq had been trying since 1983 to have the site …
Adventurers are getting ready to set off on a 3,000-km voyage in a reed boat to test a theory that ancient Egyptian merchants used such as vessels to travel as…
The US actor of Egyptian ancestry, Rami Malek, has revealed that he needed to be reassured his character would not be linked to an "Arab terrorist" before…
A chess piece purchased for five pounds in 1964, and kept in the closet of a house in the Scottish city of Edinburg for 55 years, fetched 735,000 sterling…
A 3,000-year-old quartzite head of Egyptian "Boy King" Tutankhamun was auctioned off for $6 million on Thursday at Christie's auction house in London despite…
Thousands of Malaysian children took part in a practice run Thursday of the Muslim hajj pilgrimage, marching around a model of the holy Kaaba, Islam's most…
A figure of a roaring lion, about the size of a loaf of bread, is the latest step in the fight to preserve culture from conflict. The sculpture is a replica…
Climate change causing a growing heat stress on workers in agriculture and other sectors will cause a productivity loss equal to 80 million full-time jobs by…
Almost 500 years ago, in 1518 or 1519, the Flemish artist Bernard van Orley sat down to paint a portrait of Margaret of Austria, one of the most powerful women…
The fortunes of the wealthiest names in France have seen a swift peak in the first half of the year, more than any other country in the world. According to…
A Swedish study found that the use of statins, or cholesterol reducing drugs, is significantly associated with a reduction in the risk of mortality in dementia…
Saudi Arabia’s Al Watania Distribution company ordered that the printing of newspapers be stopped in various regions of the Kingdom. It cited the high cost…
In response to the soaring air traffic and to celebrate the Communist government's 70th anniversary in power, China has invested billions in building a…
An international research team found that a high-fat diet can disable the function of brain cells responsible for regulating food consumption. In their…