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Eid between two worlds: Where memory meets celebration

During Eid Al Fitr, as celebrations continue across Oman with family visits, shared meals and quieter moments of reflection, the festival takes on layered meanings for those who have lived between cultures.For Reinilda...

Where faith meets modern design

Where faith meets modern design

'Mimmo' the dolphin delights Venice tourists, worries experts

A dolphin nicknamed 'Mimmo' swims in Venice. — Reuters

Typhoon unveils ancient shipwreck off Vietnam coast

People stand next to a centuries-old shipwreck uncovered in the aftermath of Typhoon Kalmaegi on a beach off the Hoi An coast in central Vietnam. — AFP

Spike in bear attacks hits Japan 'almost every day'

Akita University Hospital's Professor of Emergency and Critical Medicine Hajime Nakae showing a bear attack safety illustration in Akita. — AFP

New study on rare mating behaviour of Egyptian vultures published

How oral hygiene protects the whole body

Dr Tanveer Ahamed

Stay off screen often to beat stress

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Long walk better than short ones

SCI SHORT VS LONG WALKS

Camels replace cows as Kenya battles drought

Camel traders inspect camels gathered for sale at a livestock market, where various animals including camels are traded, in Merille. — AFP

Brazil plans Amazon blast for grain route

Fisherman Welton de Franca fishes in the Tocantins River in the Ilha da praia Alta community near Pedral do Lourenco. — Reuters

Growing rice in the UK 'not so crazy' as climate warms

Dr Nadine Mitschunas, an ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, inspects a crop of various rice species being grown on a trial site in rewetted peat soils on the Cambridgeshire Fens, in Pymoor, near Ely, eastern England. — AFP

Meet the first Omani woman behind the wheel of a bus

Huda al Mahrooqi

Protecting treasures with forensic mapping

A visitor views a jewelled mitre encrusted with precious stones from the "Treasure of San Gennaro", in Naples. — Reuters

Women's empowerment through adventure

Women's empowerment through adventure

Archaeologists unearth clues on French colonial massacre in Senegal cemetery

Archaeologists unearth clues on French colonial massacre in Senegal cemetery
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