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Features
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
By Ali Mohammadi -
ali@omantripper.com -
Located 2,000 metres above sea level and in the Western Hajar Mountains is Wakan, a tiny mountain village with beautiful terraced gardens overlooking the surrounding mountains above, and Wadi Mistal below. Wakan village is officially part of the Wilayt of
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
The Omani youth are delighted over the recent recommendation of the Majlis Ash’shura for the establishment of a RO 50-million Marriage Support Fund aimed at making weddings inexpensive, easier and happier. As per the recommendations, the fund will help marriage-seeking citizens whose income is not m
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
Bioengineers have developed a waterproof fabric that could drain away sweat, a study says.
The new fabric works like human skin, forming excess sweat into droplets that drain away by themselves, said inventor Tingrui Pan, professor of biomedical engineering.
One area of research at Pan's micro-nan
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
Villagers installing a water pipe in southwestern Mexico stumbled onto an ancient granite statue depicting a player from a pre-Hispanic ball game, the national anthropology institute said.
The stone had been sliced at the neck, like a decapitation, and buried in a ritual that was common at the time
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
Hardly anyone doubts the power of prayer and almost everyone has a turnaround tale — maybe personal, or of someone else's — that credits the "miracle" to a prayer. Now while science and spirituality may not always see eye to eye, holistic treatment is now finding greater acceptance, and spirituality
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
Nasa cameras have captured video of the largest explosion it has ever seen on the Moon, when a meteorite crashed into the lunar surface in a bright burst of light visible to the naked eye.
“On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface,” said Bill Cooke of Nas
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
By Samuel Kutty - samkutty@omanobserver.om -
THE Sultanate of Oman is one of the few countries in the world that attained so much so in little time in terms of health care during the last four decades. Since 1970, one of the main concerns of the Sultanate was to develop health services and provide
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
"Black" fame actress Ayesha Kapur enjoys shopping for accessories so much that she decided to make it her business and launched her own label — Ayesha Accessories.
"Ayesha (her company) is an inspiration for me and my mother Jacqueline, who is also the co-founder and MD of Ayesha Accessories, that
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
Thailand’s pioneering advances over the past 15 years in commercial insect farming were made available yesterday in a new publication launched by the United Nations.
“It is hoped that by making this information accessible, others will fully recognise the potential of edible insects to contribute to
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
An Australian zoo said yesterday that the birth of a southern white rhinoceros was a "sign of hope" for the species given the escalation of poaching in Africa.
Taronga Western Plains Zoo said the yet-to-be-named male calf was born to first-time mother Mopani in the safari-style animal park in Dubbo
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