Alain Robert, the free climber dubbed the "French Spiderman", scaled a 48-storey skyscraper in Paris on Saturday, fulfilling a goal he had set for himself once he reached the age of 60.
Dressed in…
Lengthy power cuts in the Gaza Strip have melted stocks of ice cream, forcing shops to stop selling it just when a heatwave has boosted demand.
With summer temperatures hitting 34 degrees Celsius …
For as long as humans have existed, there have always been migration movements. The longing for new horizons has been in most of us.
People who consider leaving their birth country to move to a…
Weeks of baking drought across Europe have seen water levels in rivers and lakes fall to levels few can remember, exposing long-submerged treasures - and some unwanted hazards.
In Spain, suffering…
Stood on her hind legs to greet any prospective owner who might approach her glass-doored kennel, Harriet is a black English cocker spaniel abandoned as a deepening cost-of-living crisis pushes…
[caption id="attachment_55254345" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A young boy rests by empty USAID vegetable oil tins in the Dagahaley refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee…
[caption id="attachment_55253109" align="aligncenter" width="5094"] Affectionate daughter giving flower bouquet to mother on Mother's Day[/caption]
By Meredith C. Carroll*
The idea of honoring…
[caption id="attachment_55231853" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Journalists and human right activists protest in front of the courthouse in Istanbul during the trial of two prominent…
[caption id="attachment_55227173" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A vivid shot of the oilfield development in Saudi Arabia's vast al-Rub al-Khali desert. It is facilities such as these…
The global crisis began as a banking crisis before it dominated all the aspects of economic life.There are several angles for understanding the way the GCC countries dealt with the crisis. The most…
The capital losses of the markets of the GCC countries at the beginning of the global economic crisis are estimated to be approximately $ 480 billion, or up to 50 per cent of their total. These…
The US-Israeli war against Iran aims to draw in Gulf states, but history has shown that entering wars is far easier than exiting them. Prudence is needed now more than ever.
PA Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin tells Al Majalla that Israel is taking advantage of the fact that the world is distracted by the US-Iran war to create irreversible facts on the ground
Given the effective closure of the Hormuz Strait and Houthi threats to close off the Red Sea, Syria may emerge as a corridor and conduit to bypass these embattled maritime chokepoints
A former army forensics employee who later became known as Caesar tells Al Majalla how he risked his life to expose the torture and killing of countless Syrians in regime prisons