International News
The urgent surgical intervention of a Saudi medical team saved a Pakistani woman pilgrim from brain death. The Ministry of Health said that the medical team from the Neurosurgery Department of King Abdulaziz Hospital, a member of the Makkah Health..
Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates is donating $20 billion to the charitable foundation run by him and his ex-wife Melinda French Gates to boost its annual distributions. The donation will help the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - one of th..
Three of them rescued; search teams are on the look out for others An expat family of eight members was swept away by strong waves in Al Mughsayl area of Dhofar Governorate in Oman on Sunday, local media reported. The Civil Defence and Ambulanc..
Oman has temporarily closed all tourist sites across the Sultanate due to unstable weather conditions, local media reported. According to the Civil Defence and Ambulance Authority (CDAA), the decision comes after several missing cases and deaths w..
Hajj pilgrims have performed the farewell Tawaf at the Grand Mosque in Makkah after completing the stoning ritual on the third day of Tashreeq. The Tawaf Al-Wida, or farewell Tawaf, is performed before a pilgrim departs from Makkah and is an oblig..
Muhammad is the most popular baby name for boys in the UK this year, a list compiled by online media company BabyCentre has revealed. Muslim names account for about 10 percent of all names in the top 100 rankings for both males and females, which ..
Sri Lanka will stop printing money completely to control a rapid increase in the prices of commodities, its prime minister said on Tuesday, with inflation expected to reach 60 percent this year. The cash-strapped country of 22 million people is ba..
The UK government has reinstated advice against all but essential travel to Sri Lanka as a severe economic crisis has sparked civil unrest. A shortage of basic necessities including medicines, cooking gas, fuel and food has sparked protests and vi..
The man charged with killing seven people at a Chicago-area July Fourth parade slipped past the safeguards of an Illinois "red flag" law designed to prevent people deemed to have violent tendencies from getting guns, officials revealed on T..