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Friday 26/February/2016 19:46 PM

Picture perfect

Muscat: A panoramic view of dark clouds hovering over the Al Burj roundabout near Seeb Lulu. An amateur photographer Binoy Soman took this beautiful picture...

Friday 26/February/2016 17:05 PM

TransHajar Race concludes

Muscat: Both international and Omani bikers had to beat the heat in the fourth and last stage of the TransHajar Race on Thursday as they cycled across 88.6...

Friday 26/February/2016 15:41 PM

A cliched narrative on education

Our society is not at peace with itself due to growing intolerance. From Khyber to Karachi, there is an unequivocal call for bringing education reforms and...

Wednesday 24/February/2016 17:08 PM

Putting Putin in his place

At least six crises are testing Europe’s stability: Regional chaos caused primarily by the war in Syria, a potential British exit from the European Union,...

Wednesday 24/February/2016 16:58 PM

Can China become a soccer superpower?

China's stock markets are in decline, its debts are rising alarmingly and its mighty steel industry is suffering from a global commodities rout. But...

Wednesday 24/February/2016 16:52 PM

Gun massacres, chalked up to bad luck

Writing of the "ethical confusion which overtook American society in the Industrial Age," Samuel Eliot Morison and Henry Steele Commager wrote of...

Wednesday 24/February/2016 16:48 PM

America, stay out of Britain's EU debate

President Barack Obama plans to deliver a message to the British people: Stay in the European Union and say no to “Brexit.” That’s what Bob Corker,...