Tokyo, Japan -- Hundreds of rowdy spectators, many heavily tattooed, roared Monday at a Tokyo arena usually reserved for boxing...
Bushmills, United Kingdom -- Northern Ireland's Giant Causeway draws close to one million visitors a year but their habit of...
France beat Morocco 2-0 on Wednesday to set up a World Cup final showdown against Argentina and Lionel Messi. Theo...Theo Hernandez put the defending champions ahead in the fifth minute after Morocco failed to clear their lines
French substitute Randal Kolo Muani doubled the lead against Morocco in the 79th minute of the semi-final match
SHARJAH, UAE - The Environment and Protected Areas Authority in Sharjah (EPAA) announced an increase in participation in the 11th...The breakup of the entries are 311 from university and college students and 174 from school students.
Nominations were also received in the Distinguished Teacher Award category.
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia— Saudi Arabia has unveiled the "Culture & Green Future" initiative, aiming to enhance the role of culture...
Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan, Minister of Culture and Chairman of the National Committee for Education, Culture and Science, launched the drive
The initiative will include five themes, including culture and sustainable development to create the green future, climate change and local cultural policies
Stockholm, Sweden—The Nobel Prize is an institution "for men", literature laureate Annie Ernaux of France told AFP on Tuesday in an...Ernaux is just the 17th woman awarded the Nobel Literature Prize since it was first handed out in 1901
The feminist and activist said she wanted to dedicate her Nobel "to all those who suffer, who suffer from domination in one way or another
- Achraf Hakimi struck the decisive penalty to send Spain crashing out and Morocco into the World Cup quarter-finals for the...
Spain coach Luis Enrique had claimed his players prepared by taking 1,000 penalties as homework but Pablo Sarabia, Carlos Soler and Sergio Busquets all missed from the spot.
Walid Regragui's side will face Portugal or Switzerland in what is uncharted territory for them, with their previous best a last-16 exit in 1986.
There are already air-conditioned streets in the Katara cultural district and Qatar has a 1.1 kilometer air-conditioned jogging track in...Sports authorities have not commented, but Saud, an engineering professor at Qatar University, said an air-conditioned marathon course could be built.
Saud, who previously developed air conditioning for Ford Mondeo cars, spent 13 years working on the cooling used at seven of the eight World Cup stadiums.
Erige Sehiri says her film relates the secrets, love stories and resentments of the mostly female orchard workers who live...The young women pick fruit in rural Tunisia but are hyper-connected and use social media to eke out their freedom, while their older live in a more conservative world.
It has been shortlisted to represent Tunisia at the Oscars next year, having won awards at film festivals in Tunisia, Belgium and Germany.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia--- Riyadh Art project will organize "Tuwaiq Sculpture 2030" from Jan 8 to Feb 10, 2023 under the theme...Riyadh Art, the organizer, is one of Riyadh's mega projects launched by the Saudi government in 2019 under the leadership of the Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
During the previous editions, more than 60 local and international sculptors participated in the event, which transforms the capital into an open art gallery.
French fashion house Dior debuted its latest collection Saturday at the Giza pyramids, after Italian designer Stefano Ricci held a...Dior CEO Pietro Beccari said the fashion house chose the pyramids as far more than "just a useless background", drawing on Egyptian astrology for the collection named "Celestial'.
Showcasing Egypt's heritage in a new context "will encourage other brands and international cultural figures to come to Egypt," said art historian Bahia Shehab.
- Some say the absence of booze in stadiums and its limited availability elsewhere in the Arab nation has detracted from...
The sale of alcohol at World Cup stadiums in Qatar was banned two days before the tournament in a policy U-turn, although it is available at fan zones and most international hotels
And matches particularly involving teams from South America and North Africa have still played out in front of electric atmospheres.
