Houston, United States -- A German woman engineer on Saturday became the first wheelchair user to blast into space, taking a brief ride on a Blue Origin flight. The space company owned by American multi-billionaire Jeff Bezos launched its New Shepard suborbital mission at 8:15 am (1415 GMT) from its...
Jordan pens success story with its chalk
Long before whiteboards, beamers and laptops entered modern school classrooms, teachers relied on the humble, dusty, sometimes screechy blackboard chalk.
Protests erupt in Lebanon against harsh economic policies
A group of engineers in Lebanon held a sit-in protest outside the Central Bank branch in Sidon, in conjunction with similar stands outside BDL’s branches in Beirut and other regions.
Former housing minister Iran’s new atomic energy chief
Mohammad Eslami, who previously served as housing and transport minister, replaces the country’s most prominent nuclear scientist Ali Akbar Salehi
