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Taking a cue from similar walls that exist in Iran and other parts of the world, one was pleasantly surprised to read that a wall in Peshawar too has been...

Muscat: Did you know that the camera on your mobile phone was inspired by a Muslim intellectual called Ibn Al Haytham? That a scholar called Al Mawsili...

Muscat: When Oman-born Zièd Bahrouni read an article about the Sultanate’s ambition to become an innovation hub in the Gulf region, he was inspired to...

Oman national football team’s newly appointed Spanish coach Juan Ramon Lopez Caro started his first training camp with the team at the Seeb Sports Stadium...

The first challenge to the Western hegemony that followed the collapse of Communism in Europe was the emergence of the so-called BRICS countries – Brazil,...

In an astonishing report, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has accused Sweden and the UK of arbitrarily detaining Wikileaks founder...

People are scrambling as the scary, mosquito-borne virus Zika winds its way through 26 (and counting) countries and territories in the Americas.The...