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Books
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News
11/15/2024 3:50:48 PM
The 43rd Sharjah International Book Fair hosted prominent American physicist Lawrence Krauss, who spoke on the relationship between physics and understanding climate change and global warming. Krauss stressed the importance of realizing that our presence on Earth can change the entire planet, and therefore, the future is not necessarily the same as the present.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
11/6/2024 8:17:14 PM
It's one of the most immediately recognizable voices on the planet: Andrea Bocelli's tenor is beloved across generations, cultures and borders, known to induce tears in as few as three simple words: “Con Te Partirò,” or in its English performance, “Time to Say Goodbye.”
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Life & Style
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Health
10/26/2024 2:27:17 PM
At the COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, experts urged world leaders world to learn the lessons from the estimated seven million lives lost to COVID.
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World
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Region
10/4/2024 3:16:17 PM
A delivery of medical supplies from the United Nations reached Lebanon on Friday, a first since the Israeli escalation in Lebanon began last week, said a UN agency and a Lebanese minister.
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World
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International
9/27/2024 3:10:09 PM
Japan is urging its citizens to leave Lebanon and has decided to prepare military flights for their possible evacuation, the government said Friday.
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Paris 2024
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News
8/12/2024 11:24:16 AM
It's Los Angeles' turn for the torch. Mayor Karen Bass accepted the Olympic flag at the Paris closing ceremony Sunday, before handing it off to a key representative of LA's local business — Tom Cruise — who in a pre-recorded trek via motorcycle, plane and parachute kicked off the countdown to 2028.
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World
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International
8/10/2024 11:44:04 AM
An aeroplane carrying 57 passengers and four crew crashed Friday in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, killing everyone on board, the airline said.
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World
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International
7/24/2024 10:26:11 AM
A passenger plane carrying 19 people crashed during takeoff in Kathmandu on Wednesday with the pilot surviving but "many" others aboard dead, police in the Nepali capital told AFP.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/21/2024 12:23:07 PM
Russia said Sunday that it scrambled fighter jets to prevent two US strategic bomber planes from crossing its border over the Barents Sea in the Arctic.
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Business
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Tech
7/20/2024 6:21:09 PM
Planes were gradually taking off again Saturday after global airlines, banks and media were thrown into turmoil by one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years, caused by an update to an antivirus program.
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Paris 2024
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Features
7/18/2024 9:44:49 AM
When he started out running in the early 2000s, a young Eliud Kipchoge simply wanted to get on a plane and go to Europe.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/10/2024 9:50:49 PM
Climate change combined with pollution from farming and forestry could flip northern Europe's Baltic Sea from being a sponge for CO2 to a source of the planet-warming gas, scientists studying told AFP.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/7/2024 6:41:19 PM
The Netherlands will begin sending F-16 fighter planes to Ukraine "without delay," Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said during a visit to Kyiv.
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World
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Region
7/1/2024 1:28:54 PM
Israel's national carrier El Al said Sunday its Warsaw to Tel Aviv flight was not allowed to refuel at Antalya airport after making an emergency landing to evacuate a passenger for medical reasons.
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World
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International
6/27/2024 2:51:42 PM
Veteran US diplomat John Kerry warned Thursday that the need to quickly and widely deploy climate technology to curb planet-heating emissions would be "hurt irreparably" by a Donald Trump presidency.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
6/25/2024 6:45:21 PM
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World
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Africa
6/18/2024 12:45:36 PM
Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima was laid to rest Monday in his village south of the capital, following a funeral where President Lazarus Chakwera called for an independent probe into his death in a plane crash.
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World
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Africa
6/13/2024 5:20:55 PM
The party of Malawi's vice-president Saulos Chilima, who was killed this week in a plane crash, on Thursday demanded an investigation.
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World
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Africa
6/11/2024 2:36:29 PM
Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima was killed in a plane crash, the nation's president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the wreckage of the aircraft in a foggy forest.
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World
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Africa
6/11/2024 1:45:53 PM
Malawian searchers have found the wreckage of a plane that was carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima, a military source said Tuesday, a day after the aircraft went missing in bad weather.
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