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Ideas in action for impact

When DotNext launched the Jadeer Programme in 2025, the ambition was clear: to identify raw ideas from across Omani society and transform them into solutions aligned with Oman Vision 2040. By the time the programme...

Participants from the Jadeer programme, launched by DotNext

The worst foods and drinks for your teeth

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World-first ice archive to guard secrets of melting glaciers

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Autistic Barbie doll launch welcomed as 'milestone' in representation

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A small room in Rustaq becomes an archive of Omani life

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Elvis Presley-themed train departs for Australian tribute festival

Elvis fans wait to board the Elvis Express from Sydney's Central Station, heading to the country town of Parkes for the annual Parkes Elvis Festival, in Sydney, Australia. -Reuters

Experts say oceans soaked up record heat levels in 2025

The heat that accumulated in the oceans last year increased by approximately 23 zettajoules — an amount equivalent to nearly four decades of global primary energy consumption.

The blooming interest in ear seeds

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Drawing beyond limits

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Thousands attend annual minstrelparade in Cape Town

Performers take part in the annual Cape Town Minstrel Carnival parade, in Cape Town, South Africa. — Reuters

Béla Tarr, iconic Hungarian filmmaker who directed ‘Damnation’ and ‘Sátántangó,’ dies at 70

Tarr was best known for the best known for the movie "Satantango" (1994), a seven-hour epic about the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe

China's birth-rate push sputters as couples stay child-free

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Trenčín, Oulu Selected as European Capitals of Culture for 2026

The European Capitals of Culture programme is designed to celebrate the distinct arts, history and traditions that define each host city and its surrounding area.

Super tusker Craig dies in Kenyan park at 54

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Shanghai's elderly waltz back to the past at lunchtime dance halls

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First woman at the helm of Nobel Prize institution

At the beginning of 2026, Ellen Moons will take up her post as the new secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) in Stockholm.
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