The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced the official working hours for the banking sector during Ramadan 2026, as part of its commitment to organizing operations and ensuring flexible provision of ...

Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta (House of Fatwa), the country’s official authority on Islamic legal rulings, announced on Friday that it ...

History is often taught as if astronomy followed a single European arc—from Greek philosophy to Renaissance telescopes to modern science—while Africa appears absent or myth-bound. This series, “When ...

Long before astronomy offered answers, ancient civilisations explained solar eclipses through many interesting myths or legends. Read here how these stories turn a rare sky event into powerful ...

Australians in high-stakes workplaces — from ships to hospitals to mine sites — reveal the realities of observing Ramadan ...

Twice a year in southern Egypt, an extraordinary solar event proves that ancient engineering was far more advanced than many people realize.

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

The Bengal Reader is an expansive anthology of Bengali writing in translation to be published in one volume. Ranging from the ...

The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years.

Black History Month should not be about trivia or symbolic firsts. It should be about unlearning—about dismantling the white perspective that framed Africa as marginal and Black people as derivative.

Encephalitis lethargica is an illness that attacks the brain, leaving the victims like living statues—speechless and motionless. This disease turned into a full-blown epidemic around the world in the ...