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…
With a forty-million-euro budget, a major workshop to repaint the Eiffel Tower in compliance with the health and safety standards has kicked off. The…
On August 1, 1790, a precocious student named Victor Frankenstein submitted a first-of-its-kind proposal to an ethical panel at the University of Ingolstadt in…
Seventeen volunteers in the Netherlands have agreed to host parasitic worms in their bodies for 12 weeks in order to test new vaccines for Schistosomiasis. …
A US study revealed that older adults getting surgery to remove damaged cartilage in the knee do not benefit from these operations to help ease pain or…
Selfies - or self-photographs - can distort the face and make the nose look larger than it is, according to plastic surgeons who say they’ve seen an uptick in…
A 2-inch half cigar smoked by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has been auctioned. Churchill smoked a part of this cigar on his last day at…
The city council of Huelva announced Thursday that the oldest football club in Spain is set to be sold for only one euro. According to the announcement, the…
British researchers said they detected lower levels of protective molecules in blood in the morning. This could be increasing risk of blood clots and heart…
Samsung Electronics, the leading global TV manufacturer unveiled its new line of smart QLED 4K TVs on Wednesday. The TVs come with Ambient Mode, which…
A message in a bottle written 132 years and thrown from a ship was found on an Australian beach. It has been verified as the world's oldest known missive of…
The German city of Cologne has allowed people to install fake cameras in order to reduce the risk of speed and noise near residential areas. One month ago,…
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters released wild bears in the wild, in the mountains of Gara near the city of Dohuk, Northern Iraq on Sunday, after animal rights…
A giant bag of popcorn, a laptop and a copy of The New York Times. All of these look deceptively real, until you take a bite of them. These tasty cake…
MBC Group, the Arab world’s largest private broadcaster, announced on Monday that it has stopped showing Turkish television programs. The decision became…
Cars with loudspeakers playing loud Indian pop songs fill the streets. Drummers and firecrackers add further jubilation to this scene, which is very common…
Sarah Essam is the first Egyptian woman to play in the Premier League. "Yes, I'm a girl, and my family was against my ambitions," Sarah told the BBC. "But…
A license has been issued to the Museum of History of Science and Technology in Islam at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh to become the…
In a white lab coat and blue latex gloves, Neda Vishlaghi peers through a light microscope at six milky-white blobs. Each is about the size of a couscous grain…
UNESCO will award the King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize on the innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education to two…
71.4 years is the average life expectancy at birth of the global population, which means that some parts of the world see much shorter life spans, while others…
London saw a new record in art painting sales after a rare portrait by Pablo Picasso was sold for $70 million at Sotheby's auction, London. The painting, a…
German security officials allowed hackers “controlled” access to government networks in order to track possible culprits and their method, as outraged…
British researchers have said the great economic recession that took place in 2008, and its ongoing impacts, have resulted in an increase in the number of…
Basil Khalil was far from home when he arrived in Belgium as a refugee having fled the war in Syria in 2012, lived in Egypt and Turkey and crossed the…