From festivals in Florida to touring Dracula’s digs in Romania, we round up the best destinations to visit this October. As summer abandons Europe again this October, eke out the last of the rays and raves in Ibiza, where nightclubs will be going out with a bang for the winter break. When the party finally stops head to the island’s north.
Saudi Arabia has recently put everyone on high alert due to the possibility of an Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever outbreak. When media outlets had covered the story, a particular emphasis was put on hemorrhagic fevers – such as Ebola – which can be potentially fatal to the people they infect. However, there was no Alkhurma outbreak […]
When Lebanon had its people vote on the elections, it’s not just the first in almost a decade – but rather the first time in a long time when Lebanese had a say in the issues the government had to tackle in this momentous occasion, one of which is gay rights. In fact, for the […]
Dubai has launched a new electronic tracking system that will use a state-of-the-art digital stamping system to ensure proper tracking of excise tax on its tobacco products. This is as per an awareness meeting that was held in the country, and to be implemented by the state Federal Tax Authority (FTA). According to the meeting, […]
People in Tehran’s Kourosh shopping center unaware of the film “Damascus Time” may have mistaken the arrival of men armed tooth and nail with bullets, guns, and swords as members of terrorist organization Isis. The men were riding actual horses, which didn’t help the supposed harmless public relations stunt of Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Hatamikia. The […]
Climate change may bring more bad news to the Persian Gulf, as recent numbers state that current projections look at a loss of 12-percent of the region’s total marine biodiversity if no measures are taken against the ecological threat. This may seem a challenging endeavor given the political, social, and cultural tensions currently present in […]
A team of young Afghan women coders is taking the gaming world by storm, as they take their programming knowledge into designing games that fight inequality and opium – among other awesome feats. For these girls, The Princess will be rescuing Mario, no matter how many castles they have to go through. In the Afghan […]
Indians who wish to work in the United Arab Emirates may now expect a better, much streamlined mechanism of getting proper training and certification for them to work in the UAE. This new initiative would hopefully help solve the apparent mismatch of qualifications of workers from India with requirements not recognized by authorities in the […]
Yemen will finally launch its first oral cholera vaccination campaign, thanks to the assistance of global agencies including the World Health Organization. The campaign will hopefully push for millions of people in the region to receive cholera vaccine despite being in a war-torn nation. If successful, the vaccination campaign can push to save more lives […]
Palestenians were not particularly pleased when they discovered teams from Bahrain and United Arab Emirates seem to be taking part of the prominent Giro d’Italia cycle race to take place in Israel this year. They added this “undermined” hopes for Arab solidarity, especially since it may have just broken some political expectations. According to Reuters, […]
Every nation has a creative spin on any one of its dishes, and celebrity chefs sometimes gain worldwide acclaim – or in this case infamy – when making quite the weird take on meals. Such was the case of the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie at the residence of […]