World

Geneva: More than 100,000 people died of measles in 2017, due to countries stopping and not taking sufficient care to enforce their vaccination programmes,...

Muscat: The UK Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is calling on parents to place boundaries on screen-based activities following the publication of a report...

Muscat: Pakistan's Prime Minsiter Imran Khan announced plans to build a new university after inaugurating the Spring Tree Plantation Campaign. “The...

Muscat: About 150 million trees will be planted across Pakistan at the Spring 2019 Tree Plantation drive, according to the Ministry of Climate Change of...

Muscat: Governments around the world are now placing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the heart of their future economic and political agenda to...

Muscat: A bicameral legislative committee in the Philippines has ratified the country’s 2019 budget. The move welcomed by President Rodrigo Duterte. His...

Muscat: The next meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, the White House recently...

In the old days, it was the discovery of natural resources, such as gold or hydrocarbons, that drove the world’s most dynamic economies. Today, it’s...

Moscow: The Taliban on Wednesday hailed unprecedented talks with Afghan politicians as "very successful", despite disagreements over women's...

Washington: The US House of Representatives on Wednesday saw its first committee hearings on climate change and gun control in eight years following...