Muscat: A large number of people thronged the venues as Muscat Festival 2016 kicked off at Amerat and Naseem Garden.
The 16th edition of the festival is...
Basra: Iraq has sent an armoured army division and a police strike force into the southern oil city of Basra to disarm residents amid intensified feuding...
Gaza: Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in a stone-throwing clash near the Gaza border on Friday, a Palestinian medical official said.
An...
Muscat: Seasoned swimming coach Samar Bose was recently honoured with the prestigious ‘Bharat Gaurav’ award.
It is conferred every year by the India...
Frankfurt: Facebook has hired a Bertelsmann business services unit to monitor and delete racist posts in Germany following widespread public criticism of...
Shanghai: Chinese shares tumbled again on Friday, with the Shanghai index closing lower than at any time since December 2014, leaving most who put their...
Seoul: Samsung Electronics has decided to return to using Qualcomm’s most powerful chips in its new high-end smartphones, a year after turning away from...
Freetown: A woman who died of Ebola this week in Sierra Leone potentially exposed at least 27 other people to the disease, raising the possibility of...
Taipei/Beijing: Taiwan presidential frontrunner Tsai Ing-wen sought to reassure she'd seek peaceful relations with China if she won Saturday's...