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Higher Education Minister Tarek al-Majzoub requested that classes continue to be suspended in all public and private educational institutions until Sunday evening, March 15, 2020, in a circular addressed to elementary and secondary schools, vocational…

Almost half of the world’s sandy beaches will have retreated significantly by the end of the century as a result of climate-driven coastal flooding and human interference, according to new research.The sand erosion will endanger wildlife and could infl…

For two months, the world watched as efforts to contain the coronavirus focused on China. But new outbreak epicentres thousands of miles away have been driving cross-border infections since mid-February including to a handful of countries already hit …

Over 60 civil society organisations, writers, personalities and Nobel laureates have appealed to the authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to free detained human rights defenders, during the Hay Festival Abu Dhabi, which ran from 25 to 28 Febru…

A planet twice the size of Earth may be habitable, say scientists, opening up new possibilities in the search for alien life.The exoplanet K2-18b might have liquid water underneath the hydrogen-rich atmosphere on its surface.Researchers looked at the m…

Astronomers have detected the biggest explosion ever seen in the universe.The vast blast came from a supermassive black hole and left a crater so big that it could hold 15 Milky Ways, according to the researchers behind the discovery.Astronomers are un…