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Starting today you can explore more than 30 historical sites throughout Jordan in Google Street...
Energy-neutral, glow-in-the-dark trees planted on pavements to replace street lights. Water pipes...
Yesterday morning, all over the world, mothers kissed their children and waved them off to school,...
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"I am a dreamer," it said.
"It" was a drawing of a young girl by a 14-year-old student called...
Today is Mother's Day across the Arab world, so this baton goes out to every Arab mom, grandmother,...
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Her face has been kissed by Time. Every crease and line around her eyes records a moment in her...
Now, before you reach for your red pens, or tut that the Queen of Jordan can’t do math, let me...
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The great thinkers and tinkerers of global politics and business descended on Davos, Switzerland,...
Mothers’ faces wretched in agony as they stumble through debris crying out their children’s...