NEWS

Scientists in China have recently discovered a never-before-seen ore containing vast quantities of an element widely used in semiconductors. Chinese geologists found rare earth metal “niobium” inside the new ore named niobobaotite from north China’s Inner Mongolia. Niobobaotite is a…

The Scientific Assembly of the Noble Qur’an from Al-Abbas Holy Shrine held a specialized Arabic calligraphy workshop at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Mohammad Falah Kaate’a, a calligrapher and illustrator of the Scientific Assembly said: “We received an invitation from…

Ayatullah Seyyed Hujjat Muwahhid Abtahi visited the headquarters of Imam Hussein Media Group in the holy city of Karbala and toured its different parts and departments. During this meeting, the Secretary General of Imam Hussein Media Group, Hujjat al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen…

Over the last 30 years, an estimated $3.8 trillion worth of crops and livestock production has been lost due to natural and human-made disasters, a new report released Friday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows. The loss…

NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system.…

Shiites and Hazaras of Afghanistan were once again targeted by a terrorist attack while praying in the mosque as a suicide bombing ripped through a Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan on Friday, martyring 40 and injuring 60 other worshippers. Islamic…

The daily scholarly meeting of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadiq al-Hosseini al-Shirazi was held on Thursday, the 27th of Rabi al-Awwal. In this session, like the previous meetings, the Supreme Marja answered the questions of the attendees about various jurisprudence issues.…

The “vibrancy, diversity and innovation” of Islamic culture will be in the spotlight at a free event this weekend at the Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum. Taʾrīkh — A Celebration of Islamic Heritage is a two-day event to mark Islamic…

At least four people were killed and several others injured when an express train derailed in the Indian state of Bihar, Al Jazeera reported. The train from Anand Vihar Terminal railway station in Delhi came off the rails at around…

In the aftermath of the Taliban’s resurgence in Afghanistan in 2021, many Afghan refugees sought sanctuary in the United Kingdom. However, a growing number of these refugees now find themselves trapped in a state of visa limbo.  The process of…