Offbeat

Saudi businesswoman Sofana Dahlan is the CEO and founder of Tashkeil, the first Middle Eastern platform to help creatives succeed by equipping, facilitating and fostering them to reach their full...
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NY’s largest cemetery celebrates 175th anniversary

Wednesday 15 May 2013
NEW YORK: New York’s largest cemetery is the subject of a museum exhibition as it celebrates its 175th anniversary.
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New US fitness centers cater to aging baby boomers

Wednesday 15 May 2013
NEW YORK: Baby boomers, the generation that vowed to stay forever young, are getting older, designing senior-friendly gyms and becoming their own personal trainers.
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India’s rebels in red take on sexual predators

Tuesday 14 May 2013
India’s “Red Brigade” is a group of angry young women with a simple message for the country’s sexual predators: Change your ways or be ready to f
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Tabuk students make short YouTube film against child abuse

Monday 13 May 2013
Students at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tabuk (FOM-UT) have made a 5-minute-long short film about child abuse titled "Enough", in collaboration with Dr.
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China pupil has father, sister killed over study

Monday 13 May 2013
BEIJING: A school pupil was arrested in China for hiring hitmen who killed his father and sister because of the pressure they put on him to study, reports said Monday, highlighting educational stress
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Saudi students invent animal feeding device

Monday 13 May 2013
Two female students, Ajyad Al-Jawad and her colleague Yomna Nasrallah from Al-Bassam Private Schools (Girls) in Dammam, have invented an automatic animal feeding device.
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‘Idol’ judges drama upstaging competition

Monday 13 May 2013
LOS ANGELES: The ratings are down. Randy Jackson is out. Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj are still at it.
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Branson serves as stewardess after losing bet

Monday 13 May 2013
British entrepreneur Richard Branson, wearing an AirAsia flight attendant’s uniform, drops a tray of drinks onto AirAsia’s Chief Executive Tony Fernandes during an AirAsia promotional event on a f
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Daddy bear Pyros keeps Pyrenees numbers up

Monday 13 May 2013
TOULOUSE: The number of bears roaming the Pyrenees remained stable at a minimum of 22 last year, thanks largely to the continued virility of Pyros, the undisputed daddy of the colony.
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London Zoo appeals for female mate for ‘ugly’ fish

Monday 13 May 2013
LONDON: London Zoo has launched a hunt to find a female mate for a “gorgeously ugly” fish threatened by extinction.
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