Wed 07 April 2021: Kim Kardashian has added billionaire to her resume. The cosmetics and shapewear businesswoman, who launched her career off the reality TV series “Keeping Up with The Kardashians,” was included on Tuesday for the first time on Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s billionaires. Her net worth reached $1bn (£720m) thanks to […]
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Wed 07 April 2021: As Covid-19 kept consumers around the world at home, nearly everything from groceries to gardening supplies was purchased online. According to Mastercard’s latest Recovery Insights report, this amounted to an additional $900 billion being spent in retail online around the world in 2020. Put another way: in 2020, e-commerce made up […]
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Mon 05 April 2021: Social media has long transformed from a mere form of entertainment for American youth to a powerful machine that may bring empowerment and provide help in fighting depression which is caused by the very social media,yet experts are urging caution as health information gleaned online can hardly replace in-person services but […]
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Wed 31 March 2021: Global airline industry body IATA said on Wednesday a digital travel pass for COVID-19 test results and vaccine certificates would be launched on the Apple platform in mid-April. The digital travel pass, currently in the testing phase, had been planned to be launched by the end of March. IATA Regional Vice […]
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Tue 30 March 2021: The head of the Mesha Centre for Studies and Human Rights in Jordan has revealed that Britain has still not returned thirty Stone Age statues that were taken for restoration in 1990. According to Daifallah Hdeithat, the statues were supposed to be returned to Jordan within two years. “The terms of […]
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Tue 30 March 2021: A Syrian man desires to hand down the cultural heritage of the ancient Palmyra city to future generations by making models of its historical artifacts, which were damaged in Syria’s devastating civil war. Ali Taha, who lost his four children in attacks by the Bashar al-Assad regime and YPG/PKK terrorist organization […]
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Sat 27 March 2021: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) has launched a first-of-its-kind exhibition showcasing more than 100 objects and artifacts of Islamic art and mosque culture. The “Shatr AlMasjid: The Art of Orientation” exhibit features 116 elements, artworks, and motifs from around the world. The exhibit also offers a virtual […]
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Wed 24 March 2021: Human memory is prone to (sometimes quite severe) inaccuracies and distortions – that much we’ve known for a long time. Stories, pictures, sounds, and other inputs from the environment affect us in countless different ways, leaving a vague “sense” of their “meaning” after the actual recollections have faded – and these […]
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Tue 23 March 2021: Turkey’s zero waste project, initiated by Turkey’s First Lady Emine Erdogan, has won the UN Development Program Turkey’s first (UNDP) Global Goals Action Award, Anadolu reports. Turkey started the zero waste project in 2017 and it is continuing at full speed as the country aims to free its agriculture from waste. According to […]
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Mon 22 March 2021: Thousands of curious onlookers have flocked to an erupting volcano in Iceland to marvel at the hypnotic display of glowing red lava, the bravest of them grilling hot dogs and marshmallows over the smoldering embers. The eruption of a fissure near Mount Fagradalsfjall, which began late Friday, was the first in […]
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