Society

 When Ritika Verma relocated to Singapore with her husband three years ago, she settled for an apartment much smaller than…

A bill that would make Hawaii the first state to raise the legal smoking age to 21 cleared the Legislature…

Egyptian adventurer Omar Samra has arrived to the North Pole, raising the Egyptian flag, in what the Tourism Ministry describes…

In the face of strong competition from China, the traditional, locally produced Palestinian headscarf has put up a show of…

Few mothers taking a new baby home would want a crowd of photographers snapping them from every angle at the…

For many men in Egypt, the time to shave their beard comes when the same worn-out terrorist jokes are too…

In a possible signal of Egyptian society becoming more open, pupils of a private school hired a belly dancer named…

Since its founding 70 years ago, the United Nations has been led by men, a tradition that some women's rights…

An eye-popping, 100-carat diamond, the highlight of a magnificent jewels sale in New York on Tuesday, sold for US$22.1 million,…

Jeralean Talley, the world's oldest-known living person, will celebrate her 116th birthday in Detroit next month thanking God for her…