Qatar’s emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani left Doha on Tuesday for Saudi Arabia to attend the annual Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit. According to a statement by the Qatari Royal Court, Sheikh Tamim will lead his country’s delegation to the summit in Al-Ula city, northwest of...

The densely populated Gaza Strip has long lacked sufficient drinking water, but a new project helps ease the shortage with a solar-powered process to extract potable water straight from the air. Unusually, the project operating in the Islamist-run Palestinian enclave, which has been...

One is a headscarf-wearing cleaning lady from the poor suburbs of Istanbul, the other a jet-setting psychiatrist who breaks glass ceilings and harbours suspicions about conservative Islam. Together, the two women make for a compelling story in a hit Netflix series that has pushed...

Long after his teammates left the ice on a line change, one boy continued to chase the puck with dogged determination and a beaming glow across his face. "Yamen, Yamen!" his coach called out. "Change up!" The boy, caught up in childlike glee over the game, turned his attention to the bench,...