Historically, public bathing was a fundamental necessity for hygiene, giving rise to communal bathhouses in regions where private bathrooms were a rarity. In Japan, for instance, sento bathhouses ...

CHANDLER, Ariz.—A half-dozen friends gathered at a hookah bar just outside of Phoenix for their regular hangout, when they came around to a topic that had animated them during the presidential ...

The plan would only succeed with heavy financial backing from the Gulf Arab states, who have stressed the need for the complete disarmament of Hamas, although the leaders of those states disagree ...

AFP The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation formally adopted early Saturday an Arab League counter-proposal to US President Donald Trump's plan to take over Gaza and displace its residents ...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and several European nations have backed the recently unveiled Arab plan for Gaza following 15 months of Israel’s devastating war on the besieged ...

More than 90% of homes in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged, says the UN Leading European nations have said they support an Arab-backed plan for the reconstruction of Gaza that would cost $53 ...

Leading European nations have said they support an Arab-backed plan for the reconstruction of Gaza that would cost $53 billion (£41 billion) and avoid displacing Palestinians from the territory.

Sudan has filed a case against the United Arab Emirates at the World Court for allegedly violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention by arming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ...

A rumor that users shared online in March 2025 claimed that officials in St. Louis planned to relocate the city's famous Gateway Arch to Branson, a tourist destination town also located in Missouri.

In honor of ConstantineThe largest—and last—surviving triumphal arch built in Rome during antiquity, the Arch of Constantine was erected by order of Emperor Constantine from A.D. 312 to 315 ...

Arab leaders on Tuesday approved Egypt's postwar plan for the Gaza Strip, countering the Trump plan to depopulate the territory and redevelop it as a beach destination. The $53 billion (€49.6bn ...

Arab leaders have endorsed Egypt's postwar plan for the Gaza Strip that would allow its roughly 2 million Palestinians to remain. The counterproposal to US President Donald Trump's plan to ...