A ‘prolonged, dangerous heatwave’ is sweeping across the central and eastern United States, just hours ahead of the Fourth of July holiday. The temperature is expected to go up to 105 degr...
Sharjah motorists advised to plan ahead as Etihad rail construction alters key roads / Image – file Motorists travelling through one of Sharjah’s busiest educational corridors will need to...
Image: Fadel Senna/National Geographic At first glance, the sight seems almost impossible. Dozens of goats balance effortlessly on the branches of thorny trees, standing several metres above the groun...
pc: Discover Magazine (Image Credit: Dr Stephen Chester) A tiny tooth can disappear between your fingertips without much effort. Yet some of the earliest clues to our own evolutionary story come from ...
Every year, a small town in southern Mexico stages one of the world’s most unusual wedding ceremonies. A mayor dresses for the occasion, a bride wears a white gown adorned with flowers, music fi...
For most space missions, the launch is the headline moment. For BepiColombo, the real milestone arrives years later. After spending nearly eight years weaving through the inner Solar System, the Europ...
Earth will reach its farthest point from the Sun on July 6, a yearly astronomical event known as aphelion. At around 152.1 million kilometres from the Sun, the planet will be about 5 million kilometre...
Angela Merkel said this a few months before she became German chancellor. In a July 2005 interview with the Financial Times journalists Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, she explained her approach to...
Jagpreet Singh was convicted of murdering his wife days after entering Canada, he claimed he “accidentally poked” her in the stomach. An Indian-origin man has been convicted of second-degree murder fo...
‘The monkey is a gazelle in its mother’s eyes’ At first glance, the proverb sounds almost humorous. How can a monkey possibly resemble a graceful gazelle?Yet for centuries, Arabic sp...