Cannes, France - More than 350 figures from the cinema world including Hollywood stars Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon condemned...
- Cardinals chose a new pope to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Thursday, sending up white smoke from the...
Television ratings for the Oscars have dramatically declined by 56 percent from 2020.Oscars will pre-tape the announcements of eight winners to make the televised ceremony "tighter and more electric
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has recently merged "sound mixing" and "sound editing" into a single award
Roadside signboards describe the museum as the "most beautiful building on Earth" ahead of its gala opening.Roadside signboards describe the museum as the "most beautiful building on Earth" ahead of its gala opening
It is the latest addition to the UAE collection of flashy architecture and comes after the $7-billion Expo world fair, featuring a swathe of futuristic designs
Cancelled dates over supposedly positive Covid tests and disrupted travel plans due to lockdowns are ruses that feed into the...Thousands of people fall prey to 'romance scams' every year, whose numbers rose during the Covid pandemic
Cryptocurrencies and untraceable online transaction is fueling scams with bogus investments and gift cards
The soaring minarets of the 16th-century Suleymaniye mosque paint the postcard image of Istanbul, but that is now blighted by...A UNESCO World Heritage site, the mosque which has survived fires and an earthquake, represents the golden age of the Ottoman Empire under Suleyman the Magnificent.
Three huge skyscrapers in the Zeytinburnu neighborhood triggered public uproar but they remain standing despite a court verdict.
- Unlike the bullfights popular in Spain and Mexico, where the animals are typically slain by matadors, in Fujairah two beasts...
The competition typically ends after about an hour, with each fight lasting just one or two minutes.
The bulls were once imported from South Asia for agricultural work, but the emergence of new technologies has rendered them obsolete to farming.
The new Samir Mansour bookshop, funded by an international donor campaign, stands some 200 meters from the original site, which...The bookshop was a go-to for everything from school texts to the Koran to Arabic translations of European literary classics.
The new bookshop is spread across two floors and covers 1,000 square meters, stocked with 400,000 books -- approximately four times the volume held by the old facility.
The Qatar Through Syrian Lens Exhibition was inaugurated in Building 19 of the Cultural Village Foundation (Katara), in cooperation with...The exhibition reflects the strength of ties between the Qatari and Syrian people, and highlights the place the State of Qatar occupies in the hearts of Syrians, organizers said.
Syrian artists displayed photographs from the desert, archeological sites, markets, as well as modern places and high-rise buildings.
The region mainly produces cheese but because of harsh and long winter such activity is rare so tourists on board...Visitor points at the shore of Clidir lake where many restaurants and cafes along with hot wine kiosks have sprung up recently
20 kilometers long lake is a paradise in summer for migrating birds, especially gulls, swans, and wild geese
- The price of a book in Iran depends on the fluctuation of its currency as the country relies on paper...
Many publishing houses in Iran have been out of business as the economic crisis deepens
Iranian publishers slash number of titles published and cut the number of pages which they print by shrinking the font size
- Armenia will be the official guest of honor this year due to its rich and diverse cultural stock, while Indonesia...
The Sharjah Institute for Heritage (SIH) announced that the festival’s slogan will be "The Heritage and the Future"
A total of 33 countries would participate in the event including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait and Qatar from GCC
