Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

The flip-flops on tariffs continue. In a surprising U-turn, Donald Trump first decided to pause the additional import duties ...

A graduate student who moved into a 7sqm micro-apartment says she has found the minimalist lifestyle liberating. Lydia Rouka, ...

April 8, 2025: Recently the ruling military junta was dismayed to realize that they only controlled 44 percent of the country. Year by year junta control over the country declines, with no end in ...

31. Augusta – Majestic, venerable 32. Livia – Blue, envious, or related to olive trees 33. Martina – Little Mars, or warlike ...

Researchers say a fossil jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors.

Researchers found the older ancient Egyptian settlement while they ... find is a stamp on part of an amphora jar that has the name of Merytaton (also spelled Meritaten) on it.

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 ...

The Buddha statue unearthed recently in North Korea was sculpted during the Golden Age of Buddhism, which emerged out of an ...

A building in South Korea collapsed, leaving workers trapped in the rubble on Friday afternoon. Footage shows the devastation at the construction site in Gwangmyeong on the outskirts of the capital ...